Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfingThings Your Childcare Provider Absolutely Needs to Know by Rachael Cherry can help both parents and child care providers increase the probability of a successful experience. This is written from the view point of the parent, but can also be great advice for people who provide child care who are often known as baby sitters.
Read entire post...Class Rank Weighs Down True Learning by Thomas R. Guskey
April 10th, 2014Class Rank Weighs Down True Learning by Thomas R. Guskey – Phi Delta Kappan, March 2014, V95 N6, pp. 15-19. This is my summary of this fine article, which makes the point that teaching and grading schemes that work to select the most talented students often fail to benefit all students and to notice promising […]
Read entire post...The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
April 8th, 2014The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstien (© 2013, Penguin Group: New York, NY) may not sound like a book for general educators and parents, but it is as it explores the messy relationship between biological endowments and the impact of training. You don’t need to be a sports fan to appreciate this look at modern genetic research that should apply to any kind of human accomplishment. Be sure to click at the bottom of any page to purchase this captivating book.
Read entire post...It’s a Technological World, Are Your Teachers Up to Par? by Ken Myers
March 15th, 2014It’s a Technological World, Are Your Teachers Up to Par? by Ken Myers is aimed at helping education leaders with their vision in regard to modern technology and its use by teachers. Since just about any decent job today requires technical skills, we can no longer abide teachers who aren’t interested in making the most of their school’s technical resources.
Read entire post...Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel
January 25th, 2014Uncharted: Big Data as a Lens on Human Culture by Erez Aiden & Jean-Baptiste Michel (© 2013, Riverside Books: NY, NY) explains how they use Google’s repository of 30 million digitized books to investigate human culture. Their analytical tool lets them see how words and phrases have come and gone over the years and what these trends can tell us about ourselves. As more data becomes available they see many positive and negative possibilities.
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