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Here are the latest updates for woowonenature@gmail.com "Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day..." - 8 new articles New Study Finds Value In Social Emotional Learning Another Interesting, But Strange, Video On Income & Wealth Inequality Ed Tech Digest New Resources On Race & Racism Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week Duolingo Takes Next Step To Conquer Language Learning World & Lets Teachers Create Virtual Classrooms Study Suggests It’s Time To Put Up Pictures Of Mountains On My Classroom Wall “Supporting ELLs in The Common Core Era” More Recent Articles Search Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... Prior Mailing Archive New Study Finds Value In Social Emotional Learning Why Schools Should Pay More Attention To Students’ Grit And Self-Control is the headline of a recent Huffington Post article about a new study released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. It supports Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Here’s an excerpt: I’m adding this post to The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Another Interesting, But Strange, Video On Income & Wealth Inequality A couple of months ago I shared a strange video parody of My Little Pony designed to teach about wealth and income equality (see The Oddest Video You Will Ever See On Economic Inequality). Now, here’s another strange one on a similar topic. It’s from The Washington Post and is called “Liftoff & Letdown: What’s wrong with the economy.” Like the first one, I think it’s a little too strange to add to The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality. Let me know if you think I’m wrong and you think students would get much from it…      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Ed Tech Digest © 2009 Niyam Bhushan, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio In another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I’m starting this weekly “Ed Tech Digest” post where I’ll share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech: Educators Weigh Merits of Chromebooks, iPads in Twitter Chat is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Using Chromebooks In The Classroom – Help Me Find More. It looks like Skype is working on creating a browser-based version that wouldn’t require a plug-in or other download. That will come in handy for those of us in schools who don’t have permission to download software on our school’s computers. Richard Byrne has been creating comparison charts for lots of different ed tech tools and you can find links to most of them here.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • New Resources On Race & Racism © 2014 Fibonacci Blue, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Here are new additions to A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism – Help Me Find More: The Birth of a New Civil Rights Movement is from Politico and is very good. How 'Selma' Diminishes Dr. King is also from Politico. Segregation Now is from ProPublica. ‘Selma’ Ignores the Radical Grassroots Politics of the Civil Rights Movement is from The New Republic. A Brutal Loss, but an Enduring Conviction is from ProPublica. Why I Am Optimistic About the Future of Race Relations in America is by Jamelle Bouie at Slate. Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions is from The New York Times. Chris Rock is right: White Americans are a lot less racist than they used to be. is from The Washington Post.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week © 1970 Pip R. Lagenta, Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio Each week, I publish a post containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. Here are this week’s picks: How to celebrate students’ writing is from Ray Salazar. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On Writing Instruction. How to Teach an Inductive Learning Lesson is by Jennifer Gonzalez. As regular readers of my blog and books know, I’m a big fan of teaching inductively (in fact, you’ll find over one hundred posts that talk about it). One of these days, I’ll create a “Best” list on the topic. The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Teaching Job in the Middle of the School Year is by Jennifer Gonzalez. I’m adding it to The Best Advice For New Teachers. My visual notes "5 Tips for Helping a Student Find the Right Book" by @WordLib | @edutopia http://t.co/CSMuQZJy7E pic.twitter.com/xEPzApYyBt — Rebeca Zuñiga (@rebezuniga) January 4, 2015 I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Resources For Learning About Formative Assessment: Understanding the differences in Talk to Check for Understanding and Talk to Create Understanding: pic.twitter.com/XeCjCClUQR — Kylene Beers (@KyleneBeers) January 3, 2015      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Duolingo Takes Next Step To Conquer Language Learning World & Lets Teachers Create Virtual Classrooms Duolingo, the free language-learning app and website that I’ve posted about numerous times, and which a big favorite of my students and others around the world, is unveiling Duolingo For Schools next week (thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip). It’s unclear exactly how it will work (it opens on January 8th), but it will let teachers create virtual classrooms and track student progress. It’s their latest expansion — they also started a very low-cost language certification program last summer to rival the TOEFL. And they’ve announced plans to create an app to help people learn “basic literacy.” It’s amazing what they’ve accomplished in so short a time. I’m adding this post to The Best Sites That Students Can Use Independently And Let Teachers Check On Progress.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • Study Suggests It’s Time To Put Up Pictures Of Mountains On My Classroom Wall Keep Impulses in Check By Looking at Nature is the headline of an article in The Scientific American. It reports on a recent study about self-control. Here’s an excerpt: The article goes on to explain: Follow-up experiments revealed that seeing nature makes us think more about the future, says the study’s lead author Meredith S. Berry, a psychologist now at the University of Montana. "When time is expanded, it is easier for people to imagine the future, and this effect appears to lessen the draw of immediate temptations." I’m adding this post to The Best Posts About Helping Students Develop Their Capacity For Self-Control.      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • “Supporting ELLs in The Common Core Era” In Part Two of my Ed Week series, Kathryn Haydon, Dr. Lindsey Moses, and Lori DiGisi – and readers – contribute their thoughts on supporting English Language Learners in the age of Common Core. It’s titled Supporting ELLs in The Common Core Era. Here are some excerpts:      • Email to a friend • Article Search • View comments • Track comments • More Recent Articles Quote Of The Day: Our Students Are More Than A Number January's (2015) Best Tweets — Part One

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