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Another Insight Against Zero Sum Thinking, This Time From Basketball
I’ve shared a fair amount about the dangers of zero-sum thinking (see The Dangers Of “Zero Sum Thinking” In The World, Including In Schools). So often people see the world as a fixed pie – if I give you something, that means I have less. They don’t see that sharing power and opportunities makes the whole pie bigger for everyone! An article in The NY Times, Basketball analytics corrected decades of bad intuition. Then it created new blind spots, does a good job showing how this works. And it highlights how being data-driven and focused on individual statistics encourages this kind of zero-sum thinking. It also highlights the success of the teams that don’t buy into it. You might also be interested in Take A Look At What This Former NBA Player Says About Metrics & See If It Also Relates To Schools
     Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week
Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You can also see all my “Best” lists on instructional strategies here. Here are this week’s picks: I second Adam’s sentiments about “adaptive teaching.” Fortunately, I don’t think it’s moved over here from the UK in any significant way:
5 science of reading components is from Teach Learn Grow. This cartoon from Wrong Hands would be a great model to show students, and then ask them to create their own version about their favorite book:
The OER Project has some pretty impressive materials, and these resources on Middle School Geography is just one of them.
 Ed Tech Digest Mohamed_hassan / Pixabay
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: Technology Promised to Hook Students on Learning — It Did the Opposite is from Parent Ed Talks. Teachers Using Technologies in U.S. Classrooms: Who Decides? is by Larry Cuban. Tulz offers lots of free web tools. Witness Archives gives you hints about historical events, and you have to “guess” what event it is. Inventing The Presidency is a useful YouTube playlist. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About U.S. Presidents. Five Free Newspaper Generators for the Classroom is from TechNotes. Guess The Accent is a game accurately described by its name. ‘Commons’ Founders Say Phone-Free Schools Rob Kids of Agency is from The 74.  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: Ninety percent of U.S. four-year colleges and universities will not require applicants for Fall 2027 admissions to submit ACT/SAT scores according to a new tally by FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing. She said simple things like putting up “pro-immigrant welcoming posters are a good way to show students that their existence at school is also important and helps instill trust.” Many of us confuse consuming political news, engaging on social media and participating in group chats with doing the things that we, as individuals, can do to help change our country’s trajectory. But without evidence that assigning full books produces better academic outcomes than excerpts, the matter largely comes down to experience and preference. See I Think It’s Okay Not To Teach Whole Novels In High School “The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way,” “We have been surprised before in history. We can be surprised again. Indeed, we can do the surprising.” See THE BEST – & MOST INTERESTING – RESOURCES FOR STUDYING HISTORY Normalize apologizing! Apologizing for things you’ve done/gotten wrong is important both for personal growth and for providing a social baseline for right and wrong. See The Best Resources On The Importance Of Saying “I’m Sorry” The evidence behind eliminating tracking, creating collaborative planning time and implementing more relevant instruction isn’t speculative; these moves can produce real gains for students and, notably, for teacher retention. “This is why I don’t surround myself with political consultants,” she said. “I surround myself with organizers.” California’s mandate requiring later start times for middle and high schools is already yielding results, with students sleeping more, reporting better mental health and scoring higher math and English scores, according to a new study. Mice seek information even if it does not correlate with receiving a reward—a positive payout such as food and water—and they will, in fact, give up a reward in exchange for information, according to a study published in Nature Neuroscience this July. I think we’re also in this race where, like, some teachers are using AI to generate their lesson plans and assignments and their quizzes, and then kids are using AI to do them and then teachers are using AI to grade them. So we just have bots talking to bots. And is that what we want education to look like?
 Sept. 16th Is Mexico’s Independence Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources Clker-Free-Vector-Images / Pixabay
September 16th is Mexico’s Independence Day. You might be interested in: The Best Resources For Learning About Mexico’s Independence Day The Best Sites For Learning About Mexico, Central & South America  More Recent Articles
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