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Ten years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “Ed Tech Digest” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in checking out all my edtech resources. Here are this week’s choices: Iconicoal offers free images to use. Rabiska is a free online version of Pictionary. I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms” Policy Simulator lets you create your own economy. Absurd Trolley Problems is fun. I’m adding it to The Best Videos About The Famous “Trolley Problem” Build Wordle lets you play Wordle with friends in a private virtual room. I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms” and to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR USING WORDLE IN THE CLASSROOM. Fabletide looks like a well-designed free site where people can write stories collaboratively. They don’t have a feature that allows you to create private rooms where you can choose who can add to your story, but I assume they’ll eventually add it. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Collaborative Storytelling.      This Is A Pretty Good Piece On How To Write Well, & Here’s How I Would Use It In The Classroom
The Harvard Business Review has, for years, published tons of thoughtful pieces that can be applied to all sorts of areas, including education. During the past year, though, it’s pretty much sold its soul to Artificial Intelligence and only writes about it. Now and then, though, they still have some gems, and The Science of Strong Business Writing is one of them. The above text box highlights the elements the author says are key to effective prose. If I was in the classroom, I’d basically make the article a short unit. We’d read and discuss what he says about each of those elements, one at a time, examine examples, and then students would try writing a piece demonstrating it. I think it could be an engaging and helpful series of lessons. I’m adding this info to Best Posts On Writing Instruction.  NY Times Learning Network Starts Providing Four “Do Nows” Each Week geralt / Pixabay
From The NY Times Learning Network: Introducing Our New, Bite-Size Daily Lesson Plans Every school day you’ll find a new lesson idea, that can be used as a quick warm-up or extended over a full class period. Over each week, we’ll target ELA, social studies, STEM, the arts and media literacy. Here’s how these lessons will work:
I’m adding this info to The Best Resources For “Do Now” Activities To Begin A Class.  Sentences Of The Week geralt / Pixabay
I thought readers might, or might not, find this new regular post useful. Each week, I highlight several sentences, with links to their sources, that I find interesting/concerning/useful. And they may, or may not, be directly connected to education. I may also include my own comments or related links. This regular post will join my other regular ones on teaching ELLs, education policy, Artificial Intelligence, infographics, and Pinterest highlights, not to mention sharing of my regular Education Week posts. Here are this week’s sentences: Before asking, “What’s wrong with this student?” try asking: “What might this student be communicating, and what can I change?” Schools need to make sure they’re not so focused on compliance that “we lose the joy of learning,” Tos said. “Students need structure and accountability, absolutely. But they also need opportunities to lead, to make decisions, to take risks, to fail safely, and to discover what they are good at.” If it feels like all discourse has become unhinged and flooded with hate, full of provocations that once would have been shamed out of public life, this is probably because social media allows us the cover of anonymity and physical distance. Most people communicate digitally now, so most interactions are less mediated by shame. In person, you are much less likely to insult someone’s wife, for instance, because you would have to calculate the very real possibility that you would get punched in the face. Do we all have a what-if version of ourselves? What I’d learned in the disorder was to recognize good moments. Gen Z students who felt more connected at school were 5x more likely to look forward to class and feel prepared for the future. Compared with the 2022 results, almost every country saw a drop in families’ support for their kids’ education, especially for boys, as measured by questions about how often parents talk to their kids about their schoolwork or take an interest in their learning. Overall, less than half of students (48%) look forward to going to school every day or most days, the Gallup/Walton report found. “When you see people and recognize them and make them understand they matter, we’re halfway home,” he said. By the time I got home, I had concluded, based on a multitude of examples, that the two great pillars of American culture are church and self-storage. Neiman cites research showing that “the longer people study economics, the more selfish they become.” The reason, as she interprets it, is that they grow convinced that maximizing self-interest is normal, and that to do otherwise makes you a sucker. Not having to think is one of the most attractive and delicious things we can offer to the human brain. Oliver Stone dramatized the moment in his 1995 film, Nixon: The defeated, haggard president focuses on a painting of John F. Kennedy and says, with startling self-awareness, “When they look at you, they see what they want to be. When they look at me, they see what they are.”
 The “Little Rock Nine” Entered School On This Day In 1957 – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay
Today is an important day to remember. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The “Little Rock 9”
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