Free Resources for Busy Parents and Educators Who Don’t Have as Much Time to Read and Surf as I Do with Fresh Content Every Weekday and post around 8:00 am Eastern US time.
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Larry Cuban’s New Book Is Out! Larry is one of the top education authors I know. I can hardly wait to get this book. @LarryCuban
An Arts-Integrated Approach to Teaching Engineering – Incorporating the arts into STEM education helps foster students’ creativity, cognitive development, and content knowledge. Liz MacLauchlan and Priscilla Kane Hellweg via @edutopia
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet – Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff. @megangrA @WIRED
Social Media/Artificial Intelligence
Church uses ChatGPT AI for ‘meaningful’ Sunday morning worship. Need to teach the holy trinity? Just use ChatGPT. @AMitchReporting @nypost
Learning
Chef Shares 100 Kitchen Hacks That Are Actually Useful. This is 36 minutes long, but if you are into cooking as I am it’s worth it. @therealweissman @digg
Leadership/Parenting
Yelling at kids can be as harmful as sexual or physical abuse. New research out of the US and London shows that shouting at children can be just as harmful to them as sexual or physical abuse. @Jane_Herz @nypost
Inspirational/Funny Tweets
@Gapingvoid
Humor, Music, Cool Stuff
Rugby for beginners: a guide to the rules of rugby union – The Rugby World Cup in on now in France and it ends on October 28, 2023. I love the soccer (football) World Cup and I’m starting to enjoy rugby as well. @EnglandRugby
Recent Book Summaries & My Podcasts
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini@RobertCialdini
Plays Well With Others: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Relationships Is (Mostly) Wrongby Eric Barker
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting from Tots to Teens by Melinda Wenner Moyer
My Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning Observations by Dr. Doug Green Times 10 Publications
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel Pink
Limitless Mind: Learn, Lead, and Live Without Barriers by Jo Boaler
The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive by Ulcca Joshi Hansen
Listen to Dr. Doug on the “Cup of Joe” podcast. I recorded it last week. On it, I talk about the many good things I have seen in schools doing hybrid teaching. @PodcastCupOfJoe @DrDougGreen @BrainAwakes
Back to School COVID Myths – by Dr Doug Green @mssackstein
This is my podcast on the Jabbedu Network. Please consider listening and buying my book Teaching Isn’t Rocket Science, It’s Way More Complex. Here’s a free executive summary. @jabbedu @DrDougGreen
Boys and Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves (the book can be found here.
