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I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature. You can see all my “Best” lists related to education research here. Here are some new useful studies (and related resources): The role of teacher characteristics for instructional quality: A meta-analysis Metacognition works in language learning, but what does that say about education research? Screen Time as a Scapegoat is from From Experience To Meaning. The Effect of AI and Multiple Intelligences in Project-Based Learning on English Achievement
Review of Inclusive Education Practices For Learners With disabilities.      19th Amendment Certified On This Day In 1920 – Here Are Resources On Women’s Suffrage
The Nineteen Amendment was certified on this day in 1920. I’ve just revised and updated The Best Resources For Learning About Women’s Suffrage.  A Look Back: The “Write. Right. Rite.” Series With Jason Reynolds Is A Gold Mine For Teachers & StudentsFor the next several months, each week I’ll be republishing posts from the past that I think readers might still find useful. This post first appeared in 2020.
To help build a sense of community in my distance learning classes, one of the activities I did with them was Jason Reynolds’ Frame A Special item lesson I found at Facing History. It went very well. However, it wasn’t until this week that I found out that it was just one of many videos and activities that he made for The Library of Congress this year, and they look great! You can find them all at his “Write. Right. Rite.” Series. Many, if not all of them, look like they could be used by teachers to engage students in thinking, writing and sharing. Here’s one example:   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: There’s not going to be a program, an app, a curriculum, a test, a gadget, a chatbot, an algorithm that is going to “fix” children because children aren’t little machines you can tinker with until you’ve optimized their engines. Anytime you hear the label “the science of…” — like, say “the science of reading” (or “computer science” or “political science”) — you should recognize you’re being marketed a kind of scientism that not only wants to elevate the field or practice to the realm of Real Knowledge but denigrate competing practices as “folk” or “bunk.” In my many conversations with students over the last several years, they have consistently expressed a desire to learn, but also convincingly argued that often the systems they are working within do not seem to value learning for its own sake. The most important capacity we should be fostering students is agency, the ability to make choices consistent with their own interests and goals. Accordingly, “the core challenge of managing our limited time” is figuring out “how to decide most wisely what not to do, and how to feel at peace about not doing it.” Never coach a person for who they are today; push them to who they should be someday. Dylan Wiliam, an emeritus professor of educational assessment at the UCL Institute of Education, said: “Technology may well be harming student achievement but the correlational studies that we currently have cannot support such causal claims. “And there are many well-designed studies that show that technology can have a positive impact on student achievement. So the question, ‘Does edtech have a negative impact on learning?’ does not have a simple yes/no answer: sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn’t. “The question we need to be asking is, ‘when does edtech help learning?’ And the answer is, ‘it’s complicated’.” When you see a school district put out guidance saying “Fridays are screen-free, that’s an instance of them trying to make decisions based on [concern] about technology in the classroom, instead of helping an individual [teacher] figure out how can we be more intentional about using screens. When Cassady Tondorf, 17, learned how chatbots produced writing, she realized their utter lack of originality. “The entire internet is open to it,” she said. “It’s just regenerating the same things, over and over.” I think that teaching another human being how to do something—that is one of the highest and best expressions of humanity that there is. Research has found that fiction is linked to better social cognition — our ability to think about and interact with other people — and an increased understanding of the world as a complex place.
 Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL
Ten years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in all my Best lists on teaching ELLs. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In addition, look for our latest book on teaching ELLs, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0. Here are this week’s choices: Timely Research Evidence to Support Federal Assistance for English Learners is from the Ed Law Center. Using Graphic Organizers for Language Skills Development is from Emily Bryson. I’m adding it to Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Mindmapping, Flow Chart Tools, & Graphic Organizers. Kristof Abrath shares ten writing games.
What English Learners Need from Edtech: Insights from Educators and Communities is from New America. As Trump Pushes English Only, New Polling Shows Families Embrace Bilingualism is from The 74. ELLs could watch this video and then talk/write about what they saw:  What New Research Reveals About Grouping English Learners Together is from Ed Week. Here’s more on that research. Here’s another video to show ELLs. Awhile back, I created this related interactive lesson for The NY Times Learning Network on using dance with ELLs.  When Temporary Protected Status Ends: What Schools Need to Know is from Colorin Colorado. What Head Start’s English-Only Rule Could Mean for English Learners is from Ed Week.  More Recent Articles
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