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December’s “Best” Lists – There Are Now 2,569 Of Them! Prawny / Pixabay
Here’s my regular round-up of new “The Best…” lists I posted this month (you can see all 2,540 of them categorized here – you might also want to check out THREE ACCESSIBLE WAYS TO SEARCH FOR & FIND MY “BEST” LISTS). Here are the lists from this month: The Best Ways For Modifying Assessments & Supporting ELLs The Best Lesson Ideas About The U.S. Intervention In Venezuela Eleven Articles I Wrote This Year      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: Birthday Weather will tell you what the weather was like on the day you were born. I’m adding it to THE BEST SITES WHERE YOU CAN FIND COOL THINGS THAT HAPPENED ON YOUR BIRTHDAY. PDF Barber has lots of…PDF tools. I’m adding it to Not “The Best,” But “A List” Of Ways To Convert PDF & Word Documents. Foodle might have some potential as a learning game for ELLs – you’re presented a dish, and then have to guess the ingredients that went into it. Future Fund is an online tool to organizing school fundraising events. Worldle is an online geography game. I’m adding it to The Best Online Geography Games. Type Together lets you create private rooms where you can compete in…typing. I’m adding it to The Best Online Games Students Can Play In Private Virtual “Rooms” and to The Best Sites Where Students Can Learn Typing/Keyboarding.  A Look Back: New Study Highlights Weak Link In Most Ed Research: Knowing What Works “Best” Is Not Helpful If Students Won’t Do ItFor the next month or so, I’ll be republishing my best posts from the last half of 2025.
A new study on retrieval practice highlights a critique I’ve been making of education research for years: as I headlined one my post posts in 2013, The “Best Learning Techniques” Are Useless If Students Won’t Do Them — A Critical Take On A Well Done Study. This new study, Differential use and effectiveness of practice testing: Who benefits and who engages? (not behind a paywall) finds, as the above text box says, that students who could most benefit from it are least likely to do it. As most teachers know, the most motivated students are going to lots of things to improve their learning and academic performance. In lots of ways, they are “teacher proof.” They’re going to be fine. I wish more academics would spend less time on low-hanging fruit and put more of their efforts on the truly big challenges facing teachers in the classroom – how to better create the conditions where intrinsic motivation can thrive.  SEL Weekly Update
I’ve begun this weekly post where I’ll be sharing resources I’m adding to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources or other related “Best” lists. Also, check out “Best” Lists Of The Week: Social Emotional Learning Resources. Here are this week’s picks: How to Incorporate Student Feedback to Improve SEL is from Edutopia.
Building Everyday Bravery is from The Harvard Business Review. I’m adding these tweets to Best Posts On “Motivating” Students:
New Research on How to Get Workplace Rituals Right is from Harvard Business Review. I’m adding it to The Differences Between “Rituals” & “Routines” In The Classroom, & Why We Need Both.  Today Is “Australia Day” – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources WikiImages / Pixabay
January 26th is Australia Day, which commemorates the first convict ships that brought white immigrants to the continent. I should also note that many Indigenous people in Australia call it “Invasion Day.” You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Australia. There are also many resources there on Australia’s indigenous peoples.  More Recent Articles |
