MSM 643: Thirty-Seven Google Form Submissions Later . . .
Summary:
Shawn and Troy talk about AMLE conference observations, blue ribbon schools, and more. Dave is thankfully giving us Food Scientist information.
Jokes:
How do flat earthers travel?
- On a plane
I went to a pet shop the other day and ordered a dozen honeybees. When I picked them up there were 13, they said that the last one was a free bee.
My editor dislikes my use of contractions but it’s what it’s
I have so many good telegram jokes that just don’t work in today’s media. Stop.
Yesterday a clown held a door open for me.
- I thought it was a nice jester.
My old math teacher was arrested today.
In his home was a protractor, a calculator, and ruler.
He was arrested for carrying weapons of math instruction.
There’s a fine line between hyphenated words.
My dog kept chasing people on a bike.
It got so bad I had to take his bike away.
Then he started barking and wouldn’t shut up, so I gave him his bike back.
Because his bark was worse than his bike.
How do you know how heavy a red hot chili pepper is?
Give it a weigh, give a weigh, give it a weigh now…
In the coming weeks I plan to make a revolution to become a better proof reader.
Middle School Science Minute
by Dave Bydlowski (k12science or davidbydlowski@mac.com)
K12Science Podcast: Food Scientist
I was recently reading the September-October 2024 issue of “The Science Teacher,” a journal published by the National Science Teaching Association.
In this issue, I read the “Career of the Month” section, written by Luba Vangelova. She wrote an article entitled: “Amy DeJong, Food Scientist.”
Food science is an applied science that combines chemistry, engineering and microbiology in efforts to bring safe, tasty and nutritious food from farms to consumers. Amy DeJong is a process development engineer assigned to a research and development team at Mars Wrigley in Chicago.
http://k12science.net/food-scientist/
Reports from the Front Lines
- AMLE
- Perplexity
- Downie 4 & BBC 4 is a beautiful thing
- MacWhisper
The Social Web
I love reading to my students and thankfully google meet lets me read to all of them at the same time in both buildings! Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 #edusky #educators #principal @eduskyteam.com
Use my Bingo Add-on to create individual Bingo sheets for each of your students. alicekeeler.com/codedbyalice
Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’ (early 20th century): someone who loves nothing better than reading in bed.
Miguel Guhlin@mguhlin.bsky.social
Free ebook – Peachey, N. (2024). AI activities and resources for English language teachers. British Council. doi.org/10.57884/DKK… #EduSkyAI https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/publications/resource-books/ai-activities-and-resources-english-language-teachers
I signed up for & started the free #KQED #MediaLit course “Analyzing Media Messages: Bias, Motivation and Production Choices”
https://teach.kqed.org/p/analyzing-med
Strategies:
A Look Back: Student Examples Of “Explain It To Me Like I’m Five” Projects
Resources:
(Almost) Every Type of Cognitive Bias Explained
Among the 200+ biases that exist, many are simply variants or subcategories of others. Some are duplicates, like the bizarreness effect and humor effect, while others complement each other, such as optimism bias and pessimism bias. Others aren’t exactly cognitive biases but rather basic cognitive principles or logical fallacies.
Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More
Now, at the MetPublications digital archive, we can read a great variety of the books, guides, and periodicals it’s put out for more than a century–from a 1911 catalog of the museum’s collection of pottery, porcelain, and faïence (which refers to pottery of the tin-glazed variety) to — as of this writing — the latest issue of the Met’s Bulletin, on Mexican printmakers including Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. They and the more than 1,600 publications that lie between them are free for you to explore, some readable online, and some downloadable in PDF form.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for non-commercial use. When you browse the Met collection and find an image that you fancy, just look at the lower left-hand side of the image. If you see an “OA” icon and the words “public domain” (as shown in the example below), you’re free to use the image, provided that you abide by the Met’s terms.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection
Redirect Detective
Redirect Detective is a free URL redirection checker that allows you to see the complete path a redirected URL goes through.
Some of the many uses for Redirect Detective are:
- See where an affiliate link goes to and what affiliate network is being used.
- Check if those bit.ly links (or similar URL shortners) redirect to a legitimate site.
- Check your own redirects to ensure they work correctly.
- Check to see if your redirected domain correctly redirects to your new domain.
- See at what point in the redirection path cookies are being set.
- Avoid being tracked by not being redirected via adware/tracking sites.
- Discover just how many redirects certain sites use. You might be surprised to how many.
Web Spotlight:
Why We Knock on Wood
10,946
I animated 30 frames a day for 1 year.
Set at 30 frames a second, each second represents 1 day.
All audio was sourced from videos taken with my phone from the year of daily animation.
Fold paper. Insert lens. This $2 microscope changes how kids see the world
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2024/11/24/g-s1-35181/microscope-lens-students-foldscope
AMLE Research: Effective Strategies for Building an Engaging Culture of Success
David Yeager, Ph.D. – 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People
Neuroscientists have discovered that around age ten, puberty spurs the brain to crave socially rewarding experiences, such as pride, admiration, and respect, and to become highly averse to social pain, such as humiliation or shame. As a result, young people are subtly reading between the lines of everything we say, trying to interpret the hidden implications of our words to find out if we are disrespecting or honoring them. Surprisingly, this sensitivity to status and respect continues into the mid-twenties. In his first book, 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, acclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager, Ph.D. (FAN ’16) helps adults develop an ear for the difference between the right and wrong way to respect young people and avoid frustrating patterns of miscommunication and conflict.
Yeager explains how to adopt what he terms the mentor mindset, which is a leadership style attuned to young people’s need for status and respect. Anyone can adopt the mentor mindset by following a few highly effective and easy-to-learn practices such as validating young people’s perspectives (rather than dismissing them), asking them questions (rather than telling them what to do), being transparent about your beliefs and goals (rather than assuming that they will accurately guess your thoughts), and holding them to high standards (rather than coddling them). Yeager’s pioneering research and interventions have shown these practices reduce a wide variety of behavior problems, including school dropout, unhealthy eating, stress, purposelessness, mental health problems, and more.
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