MSM 420: Half second slower on the rat hole. Alternative assessment, and finished the podcast with 50 mph winds . . .
Jokes You Can Use:
Wall Street Journal photo subtitled: Why Do Men Refuse To Wear Coats? Yup. No coat. Much less . . . pants.
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When I am told, “You’ll regret that in the morning”, I don’t let it bother me.
Being a problem solver, I just sleep in till noon.
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Two little boys were at a wedding when one leaned over to the other and asked, “How many wives can a man have?”
His friend answered, “Sixteen… four better, four worse, four richer, and four poorer.”
Advisory:
Flow
Animated core message from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book ‘Flow.’
‘Selfie harm’ and the damage done by social media
…took photos of a group of teens aged 13 to 19, then asked them to spend a few minutes editing the shots using one of the many selfie apps marketed at teens. The result? “People are mimicking their idols, making their eyes bigger, their nose smaller and their skin brighter, and all for social media likes,” he said on Instagram.
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
Stability and Change
I was recently reading the February, 2019 issue of “Science Scope,” a magazine written for middle school science teachers, published by the National Science Teachers Association.
In this issue, I read the section “From the Editor’s Desk” written by Patty McGinnis. She wrote an article entitled, “Stability and Change: Integral to Systems.” The crosscutting concept of Stability and Change is a critical concept centered on understanding change in systems and the application of creating and controlling change.
From the Twitterverse:
Jack Berckemeyer @JBerckemeyer
If we would spend more time in schools dealing with social and emotional needs of our students we would see improvement in overall student success and empowerment!
Terry Hoganson @TerryHoganson
Should all schools get a minimum of one full-time administration/principal regardless of school size? I’m interested to hear thoughts . #edleaders #edu ##education #edchat #leadership Also, should principals teach? We are talking about in my Masters Class.
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Create a Historical ClickBait Headline as a starter/plenary/revision exercise: http://www.classtools.net/blog/create-a-clickbait-headline-as-a-starterplenaryrevision-exercise/ …
Chromebook Trackpad Checklist https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CZtZF7gVRxwkzHlFnWXgknhBoTzhrPsShg_iBTtNl_M/template/preview … Infographic and checklist on how to use 1, 2, and 3-finger gestures on a Chromebook trackpad. By @dyerksjr1 #edtech #GSuiteEDU #GoogleEDU #ChromeBooks
So excited to be chosen to present at @AMLE for the fourth year in a row! Jon Treese & I will be presenting a concurrent session on our NEW BOOK, “R.E.S.U.L.T.S.: Promoting Positive Behavior & Responsibility for Learning!” Can’t wait for Nov! #AMLE2019 #AMLE19
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So why are teachers so bad at lesson design? I mean, they’re trained professionals in instruction and lesson/unit planning, right? #4shifts #edtech #edchat https://t.co/ANLYTns82z https://docs.google.com/document/d/1COUR5p1E1gi-r8Hk0WXfYwzVX3Fw6fSNdvHvggVBJMc/edit
#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”
Strategies:
Experimenting with Math Testing in Groups
Resources:
Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/active-shooter-drills-erika-christakis/580426/
15 Amazingly Creative Book Reports
Fold-N-Fly
A database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans. Find the best paper airplanes that fly the furthest and stay aloft the longest.
https://www.foldnfly.com/#/1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2
What Teachers Need To Know About The Science Of Learning–And What They Don’t
Lately, there’s been a push to acquaint educators with “the science of learning.” But only some aspects of that science actually help teachers do their jobs. Others just waste their time.
…there are two basic categories of learning science: cognitive neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Some efforts—particularly the Zuckerberg initiative—focus on neuroscience rather than psychology, while others mingle the two. That’s a problem, because—whatever its larger value—neuroscience is distinctly less useful to teachers.
Neuroscience is appealing partly because the data appears to be incontrovertible: just look at how different parts of the brain “light up!” But there’s a lot that brain scans can’t tell us—like whether a student is actually learning anything, or what to do if she isn’t. Changes in the brain may or may not have an impact on behavior.
Cognitive psychology, in contrast, has yielded a number of insights into what makes teaching and learning effective. It’s well established, for example, that students get a bigger boost from quizzing themselves about something they’ve read—or being quizzed by the teacher—than from rereading and highlighting the text.
Cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham has opined that acquainting teachers with neuroscience is “a colossal waste” of their time. Testing expert Dylan Wiliam says he’s unaware of “a single neuroscience finding that helps teachers,” and he’s not sure there ever will be one. At least some neuroscientists agree that cognitive psychology does the intellectual “heavy lifting” when it comes to providing guidance to teachers.
Web Spotlight:
Florida Student, 11, Arrested After Dispute Over His Refusal to Say Pledge of Allegiance
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/19/us/11-year-old-arrested.html
How We Can Fix Faulty Background Knowledge
https://www.middleweb.com/39739/how-we-can-fix-faulty-background-knowledge/
The less flexible the teaching, the more poorly boys read
https://ukedchat.com/2019/01/31/flexible-teaching/#annotations:L9OQpC36Eem8dUe8jWmJhQ
Random Thoughts . . .
ARVRinED – ISTE 2019 session
