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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A Journalist’s Reporting on Schools Can Be Shoddy. The media takes a lot of a cheap shots at the nation’s three-plus million classroom teachers in nearly 100,000 schools spread over 13,000 school districts based on cherry-picked evidence. @LarryCuban
Schools are key to solving mental health equity gaps. Declining mental health is the national health crisis of this generation, and our schools must act. @alexdalvarado @eschoolnews
All Italian Regions Explained in 27 Minutes With Subtitles – For my money Italy is the best when it comes to seanic beauty, art, architecture, food, and friendly people. I’ve been there three times and plan on going again. Piazzasquare italiano on @YouTube
Social Media/Artificial Intelligence
AI Chatbots Can Guess Your Personal Information From What You Type. The AI models behind chatbots like ChatGPT can accurately guess a user’s personal information from innocuous chats. Researchers say the troubling ability could be used by scammers or to target ads. @willknight @WIRED
Learning
The Top States Americans Are Moving To, Mapped – You can click to see which states are gaining population and which states are losing. @StorageCafe @darcymiajimenez @digg
Leadership/Parenting
6 Strategies For Dealing With ‘Difficult’ Students – Dealing with ‘difficult’ students remains the number one source of constant tension for most teachers. @allenmendler @TeachThought
Inspirational/Funny Tweets
@LollyDaskal
Humor, Music, Cool Stuff
Umberto Tozzi – Gloria – This is Laura Branigan’s hit from 1992 sung in Italia.n @UmbertoTozzi
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.
