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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The Benefits of Presenting Preschool PBL Work – Project-based learning allows very young students to explore, research, and grow their knowledge. Presenting their work to the community validates their efforts. @edutopia @ClassTechTips @Rdene915
How WIRED Will Use Generative AI Tools – Some publications are already using text and image generators. Here’s how WIRED will—and won’t—use the technology. @glichfield @WIRED
Alphabet Layoffs Hit Trash-Sorting Robots. The company recently laid off thousands of human employees—it is also shutting down a unit working on robots that learned to open doors and clean tables. @peard33 @WIRED @wiredunion
Social Media/Artificial Intelligence
Does your school need an app? Have your students create one. Today’s generation of students will become some of the most digitally literate citizens we’ve ever seen. @DA_magazine
Learning
Planet of the Humans – No matter which side you are on when it comes to Climate Change, you need to watch this. Michael Moore is a climate change believer, and the left is mad that he produced this. WARNING: It lasts 1:38 hours. @jeffgibbstc @OzzieZehner @MMFlint
Leadership/Parenting
Five Video Projects for Almost Every Classroom – The projects in this course can be done in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Whether you have iPads, Chromebooks, Macs, or Windows computers, you will be able to do these projects. @rmbyrne
Inspirational/Funny Tweets
@theeiguy
Humor, Music, Cool Stuff
Mathematics and sex | Clio Cresswell | TEDxSydney – There is math than predict if a marriage will work. @cliocresswell @tedxsydney
Recent Book Summaries & My Podcasts
How to Raise Kids Who Aren’t Assholes: Science-Based Strategies for Better Parenting from Tots to Teens by Melinda Wenner Moyer
Critical Issues in Democratic Schooling: Curriculum, Teaching, and Socio-Political Realities by Kenneth Teitelbaum
Can You Learn to Be Lucky? Why Some People Seem to Win More Often Than Others by Karla Staff
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
180 Moving Forward past the Pandemic with Dr. Doug Green – On October 4, 2021, I was Kim Mattina’s guest on her weekly show. Please join us for a discussion on what we can gain from our pandemic experiences as educators.
The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive by Ulcca Joshi Hansen
Noise: A Flaw In Human Judgement by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony, & Cass Sunstein
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.
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