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The Best Resources Highlighting What English Language Learner Students Want From Their Teachers TheDigitalArtist / Pixabay
I’ve previously posted The Best Videos Illustrating Qualities Of A Successful Language Learner, but have never published a specific “Best” list about what elements might make up a good language learner teacher. Today’s post is the beginning of one: Video Of Our ELL Student Panel & Downloadable Hand-Out They Used For Preparation Three Videos Of English Language Learners Giving Advice To Teachers What language learners really value in their teachers — the top five qualities – and why is from The Language Gym. Also, I’ve done a multi-year series at my Education Week column where students – ELLs and English-proficient ones – share their thoughts about good teaching. See Student Voices.      The Advantages Of Not Having A Zero-Sum Mindset
The point-guard mentality didn’t just make Sam Darnold better. It’s a useful mental trick is an excellent New York Times article. It reviews evidence showing the advantages of focusing on helping others look good, instead of just yourself – in athletics and in other parts of life. I see it often on the basketball court. The guys who are most highly thought of and who everyone wants to play with are the ones with that attitude. This article could be the basis of a very important classroom lesson, with students sharing their own related experiences. I’m adding it to The Dangers Of “Zero Sum Thinking” In The World, Including In Schools.  Ed Tech Digest
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: Podcast Magic looks like a pretty cool tool. ScreenFlow Pro is yet another free screen recording tool. I’m adding it to The Best Tools For Making Screencasts. DeepTime Home is an impressive interactive site telling stories of the Australian aboriginal peoples. I’m adding it to The Best Sites To Learn About Australia. I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Teacher & Student Podcasting: 
This is interesting, from Web Curios: Fairytale Hunt: Ooh, this is fun! A small digital toy made by Lynn Cherny, this is basically a way to explore fairytales by exploring thematic similarities and commonalities between texts; the webpage presents you with a selection of text drawn from a fairy story, and highlighting a part of said text will cause the engine to search for a similar text elsewhere within the fairytale corpus, and take you to it; there’s a light ludic layer applied to this where you can win points and (not real) prizes for finding specific things – mentions of monsters, say, or fruits or animals – and it’s a really nice way both of exploring tropes and themes that occur and recur in fairytale writing, but also of exploring how text embeddings and relational meaning networks, er, work. BONUS FAIRYTALES! Would you like a link to a huge database of classic folklore and mythology texts, with links to more stories and myths from around the world than you could shake a stick at? YES YOU WOULD!  Today Is Arbor Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources Tama66 / Pixabay
Today is Arbor Day in the United States. You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Trees.  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: But among public school parents, more than half (57%) said schools are headed in the right direction. Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona estimated that the amount of speaking is declining by about 300 daily words per year. Tennessee is one of three states where policymakers are currently proposing action to limit undocumented students’ access to a free, public education by challenging tenets of the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, which granted these students that right. In an era of misinformation, the brain’s urge to resolve questions as soon as possible can lead us towards flawed conclusions unless we actively engage our critical thinking. “McMahon has played the role,” he writes, “of a friendly grandmother wielding a hatchet.” We found only 7% of parents thought their teens were using AI for schoolwork multiple times a week or more, but 27% of teens said they were (itself surely an undercount). Fear may produce short-term compliance, but it rarely produces sustained excellence. Immordino-Yang told me that the ultimate goal of any school assignment is not the finished project itself but the experience of having done it—an experience that A.I. tools are intended to abbreviate or obviate. Majorities of educators indicated on the EdWeek Research Center survey that students’ use of technology for school-related purposes has a negative impact on their social-emotional skills, classroom behavior, and physical and mental health. The problem there is that those [standardized] tests are anything but objective; the more colleges rely on them, the more the uncredited work of expensive tutors or test prep classes can distort the profile of the incoming class. “If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes,” Garrett quipped, “you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.” But building strong relationships with students remains the most critical teaching skill for Smith, a veteran educator and basketball coach for more than 20 years. Children from low-income families have roughly $80,000 less invested in their development, well-being, and education relative to their peers from high-income households, according to a new study. But [AI] falls short of the experience that accompanies real patience: not just material support, but the feeling you are worth someone else’s while. If policymakers truly want schools to operate more effectively, the conversation shouldn’t start with comparing them to businesses The resolution asks teachers to “encourage the use of paper and pen assignments” and also contemplates banning student access to YouTube as well as the gaming platforms Roblox and “Fortnite.”
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