Monthly Archives: June 2019

June 29, 2019

MSM 432: #ISTE2019, Go Synth These Jokes

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Jokes You Can Use:

Why is it impossible to play and hide and seek with Pokémon?

They always Pikachu

A truck loaded with Vicks Vapor Rub overturned on the highway.

Amazingly, there was no congestion for 8 hours.

How do billboards talk?

Sign language

Why should you never iron a 4 leaf clover?

Don’t want to press your luck.

Advisory:

Missing Maps

https://www.missingmaps.org/#annotations:tAuSJo47EemjwHtX8YTYPA

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

Apollo 11 — 50th Anniversary

I was recently reading the July, 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 an article entitled “The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11.” On Sunday July 20, 1969 at 4:17 pm EDT, the “Eagle” spacecraft landed on the lunar surface in an area known as the Sea of Tranquility.

From the Twitterverse:

Eric Sheninger @E_Sheninger

Storytelling and Brain Science: This Is Your Brain on Story (link: https://buff.ly/2Lq5m6X) buff.ly/2Lq5m6X #digilead #brandEDU

Apple Education @AppleEDU

We’ve curated all our #ISTE19 resources including the free Apple Pop-Up Classroom Workbook in the #AppleTeacher Learning Center! Revisit the activities, recreate this experience in class, and explore project ideas that span subjects! (link: https://apple.co/2RDUzY5) apple.co/2RDUzY5 #EveryoneCanCreate

Tami Brass@brasst

Top Google Education News, Tips, and Resources from #ISTE19 | Tech & Learning https://www.techlearning.com/news/top-google-education-news-tips-and-resources-from-iste19

Tami Brass@brasst

Awesome resource! Google Slide Calendars: 2019/2020 Version – i heart edu

https://t.co/QUDpI1Hg34

Tom Murray @thomascmurray

After his best friend died, a 12-year-old Michigan boy raised $2,500 to pay for the headstone (link: https://cnn.it/2zQVNav) cnn.it/2zQVNav #KidsToday

Kathleen Corley @KathleenCorley

Check this out on Wakelet with resources from ISTE19 curated by Cathy Hink (link: https://wke.lt/w/s/5NxAdh) wke.lt/w/s/5NxAdh via

@wakelet

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

ISTE Thoughts

Big picture overview

AR/VR

Podcasts by students

Good Poster Sessions

Pedagogy over Technology

Importance of Critical Thinking

Resources:

Privacy Grade

Grades are assigned using a privacy model that we built. This privacy model measures the gap between people’s expectations of an app’s behavior and the app’s actual behavior. For example, according to studies we have conducted, most people don’t expect games like Cut the Rope to use location data, but many of them actually do. This kind of surprise is represented in our privacy model as a penalty to an app’s overall privacy grade. In contrast, most people do expect apps like Google Maps to use location data. This lack of surprise is represented in our privacy model as a small or no penalty.

http://privacygrade.org/home#annotations:XTkEApaMEemvJA-YuO44Og

Web Spotlight:

Synth

For Education

Podcasting. You’d like to do it with your students. You’d like them to have an authentic voice that is heard by the outside world . . . but your students are right on the edge of 13. Synth podcasting is for you. Not into podcasting? Synth is also for you. You can do a 4 minute-ish vidcast or podcast and run a transcription in a matter of minutes. External link this from your Moodle or another source and use it with students and parents. Brought to you buy the guys who make Swivl. Funded by Swivl sales. From Jeff Bradbury’s Session at #ISTE19.

Why Tech Isn’t Transforming Teaching: 10 Key Stories From Education Week

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/2019/06/why_tech_isnt_transforming_teaching_10_stories.html#annotations:sE63oJmcEemS3A_SHx4Ysw

How to Teach Critical Thinking

Daniel T. Willingham

chrome-extension://bjfhmglciegochdpefhhlphglcehbmek/content/web/viewer.html?file=https%3A%2F%2Feducation.nsw.gov.au%2Four-priorities%2Finnovate-for-the-future%2Feducation-for-a-changing-world%2Fmedia%2Fdocuments%2Fexar%2FHow-to-teach-critical-thinking-Willingham.pdf#annotations:KfTerJkYEemWUe_OEbx3xA

Random Thoughts . . .

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June 8, 2019

MSM 431: Be Careful Where You Step, This Show Has Holes.

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Jokes You Can Use:

Two windmills are in a field. One asks, “What kind of music do you like?”

The other one says, “Well, I’m a big metal fan.”

My wife asked why I spoke so softly in the house.

I said I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening!

She laughed.

I laughed.

Alexa laughed.

Siri laughed.

Eileen Award:

Twitter:

John Meehan‏ @MeehanEDU

Thank you! Loved the podcast. Tremendously appreciated – and can’t wait to hear how it goes with your listeners!

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

Middle School Science Minute: Covey Denton

I was recently reading the April/May, 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 “Member Spotlight” section where NSTA highlights a middle school science teacher, from across the United States. This month, Covey Denton is featured. She is a PreK-Sixth Grade Science teacher in North Caroline. Her advice for a new science teacher is:

“Don’t be afraid to fail!”

From the Twitterverse:

Eric Curts‏ @ericcurts

New stickers! Will be bringing these to #ISTE19 and all my other summer conferences! #edtech #ControlAltAchieve #ISTE2019

Mrs. Rogers‏ @mrsrogers304

Our third graders did a fantastic job at our Famous Michigander celebration! What a fun way to celebrate all of the wonderful things we’ve learned about Michigan this year. @DublinWL @WalledLkSchools

Diane Ravitch‏ @DianeRavitch

Mary Holden: What Happened When a Veteran High School Teacher Switched to Middle School Teaching http://dianeravitch.net/2019/06/08/mary-holden-what-happened-when-a-veteran-high-school-teacher-switched-to-middle-school-teaching/ …

Matt Miller‏ @jmattmiller

The newest DITCH book is out! DON’T Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World TONS of practical ideas and solutions for using tech to do great differentiated instruction! https://amzn.to/2MNCc4j #DitchBook #tlap #gttribe

Billy Krakower‏ @wkrakower

Study questions relevance of learning styles https://buff.ly/2Z7hNrW #K12 #NJed #NYedchat

Carla Arena‏ @carlaarena

HOW TO START YOUR OWN MICRONATION http://bit.ly/2IqF7KA microbation, projectbasedlearning

Larry Ferlazzo‏Verified account @Larryferlazzo

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week https://t.co/aJUnXv56zB

Diane Ravitch‏ @DianeRavitch

Michigan: The New State Superintendent Brings Hope for Real Change http://dianeravitch.net/2019/06/08/michigan-the-new-state-superintendent-brings-hope-for-real-change/ …

Miro‏ @MiroHQ

Our new Mind Mapping tool maintains a good balance of simplicity and function and helps you bring your ideas to life. Give it a try and don’t hesitate to share your feedback with us! https://bit.ly/2HjNFUC

Bored Teachers‏ @Bored_Teachers

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

Resources:

Comic Master

No registration is necessary. There are limited characters and assets. This could be used to create some printable masters.

http://comicmaster.org.uk/comicmaker/js/main.html

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).

Federal field workers were given instructions on what kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects, the result of which may sometimes be offensive to today’s readers (see A Note on the Language of the Narratives).

https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

Web Spotlight:

Memorization

I saw John Medina, author of “Brain Rules,” speak years ago and he said something to the extent of “Creation without consumption is the equivalent of playing the air guitar; you might know the motions, but you won’t actually know how to play.” Yes, you can Google anything you want today, but that doesn’t mean you understand the concept with any depth.

Memorization is Not a Bad Thing

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June 1, 2019

MSM 430: Nothing on Twitter I want to put in the show, but watch me do this anyway… We’re Not Quite Finnish’d.

Troy / MSM, Podcast /

Jokes You Can Use:

My son told me he didn’t understand cloning.

I told him, “That makes two of us”.

Where did Captain Hook buy his hook?

At the second hand store.

All the comic books I bought from the store are missing the last page.

I have to draw my own conclusions.

I hate it when people say age is only a number.

Age is clearly a word.

I often wonder if the guy who came up with the term, “One Hit Wonder”…

Came up with any other phrases.

I spent hours trying to remember what the opposite of “night” was.

But, in the end, I just had to call it a day.

Middle School Science Minute

by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)

Using Critical Thinking to Counter Misinformation

I was recently reading the April/May, 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 “Commentary” written by Andrew Zucker. He wrote an article entitled, “Using Critical Thinking to Counter Misinformation.” Andrew wrote that “as scientific misinformation proliferates, due largely to growing use of social media, our profession has learned the hard way that it is not enough to teach students accurate science. Science teachers need to help students use critical thinking to examine claims they see, hear, or read that are not based on science.”

From the Twitterverse:

John Meehan‏ @MeehanEDU

STICKERS! #EDrenaline Rush arrives in just a few weeks. Will be happy to send a freebie sticker or two your way. Just reply to this message and I’ll follow up with a DM to get it your way!

MiddleWeb‏ @middleweb

MiddleWeb Retweeted MiddleWeb

We mailed 26 books out for review today. That may be a record! #mschat #edchat #educoach

MiddleWeb added,

MiddleWeb @middleweb

REVIEW FOR US! Choose a free professional book for review this summer from our lengthy list of choices. Set your own deadline. Keep the book! Details: https://t.co/RJ39wpwDS7

Jacqui Cheng‏Verified account @ejacqui

This trove of previously unpublished photos from the Tiananmen Square protests & massacre is truly amazing, and inspired by the photographer’s own daughter never having learned about it.

John Faig‏ @johnfaig

Lots of words that were not around when I was a kid. We are either more enlightened or more sensitive or both. (via @DavidRozado) https://twitter.com/DavidRozado/status/1134041329292460032

#mschat every Thursday at 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. And as Troy says, “The Twitter never stops!”

Strategies:

Interleaving

The concept of mixing closely related concepts when learning.

Also free guides (free as in FREE, not even an email address needed).

https://www.retrievalpractice.org/interleaving

Resources:

Nonoseconds

Did a quick search on nanoseconds and how it fits into NGSS. Here is some information from Educational Innovations:

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Students can use the Nanosecond Bar in an investigation to illustrate the Speed of Light. The Nanosecond Bar is a great way to demonstrate how fast light travels. This durable, three-dimensional bar is exactly 30 centimeters long – the distance light travels in a nanosecond.