Thanks to all my readers for allowing DrDougGreen.Com to grow well past 100,000 hits a month. These posts are not my usual fair. They are YouTube clips of some amazing females playing guitar. It’s about time more talented ladies invade a mostly male bastion. Click title to see all Nuggets. Merry Christmas, Kwanza, & New Years.
I’m a sucker for stories about how students do amazing things. Here we have one has become a go to expert in his field, one who takes on the look of perfect women in magazines, and another college dropout making a bundle. There are more and they are all amazing in their own way.
Toxic friends: Ten common signs and what you can do about it – Do you have friendships that bring you more stress than joy? You’re not alone. The sad reality is that we are all at least partly surrounded by toxic friendships. @hackspiritorg @artofwb @mindfulive
How The World’s Fastest Trains Compare To Each Other, Animated – FleetLogging, a firm that helps manage fleets in the United States, crunched the numbers and calculated how fast the average US passenger train is compared with the fastest trains in the world. @jamescrugnale @digg @weatherchannel
Social Media/Artificial Intelligence
IT trends that will lead digital transformation in 2021 – Technology has a reputation for moving quickly in the world of business, but nothing could have prepared us for the twists and turns of 2020. @TechNative @NLouzado @Hyve
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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What’s the point of being retired if you can’t go to Key West, Florida in February. I’ll post a fresh bunch of Net Nuggets tomorrow so for now, enjoy some of my Book Summaries. They will help you make purchasing decisions or internalize key concepts from books you’ve read. My Net Nugget Archives are also available. They should be very useful for researchers as well. If you just want to be entertained, check out my Humor/Music/Cool Stuff Archives. Joy to you all and God Bless. Dr. Doug
Free Resources for Busy Parents and Educators Who Don’t Have as Much Time to Read and Surf as I Do
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Enduring Practices From Remote Teaching – After a yearlong crash course in digital tools and remote teaching, a teacher reflects on what will stick in her brick-and-mortar classroom. @sustainiverse @edutopia
Helping Teachers Prioritize Social Emotional Learning – The case for SEL is a strong one. According to Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), SEL helps young people acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions, and achieve personal and collective goals. @Getting_Smart
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers – Briefly put, questions are more important than answers because questions seek and frame and expose while answers, at their best, are temporary responses whose accuracy changes and shift and decays over time, needing to be reformed and remade and reevaluated as the world itself changes. @terryheickedu @TeachThought
Social Media/Artificial Intelligence
Can artificial intelligence create art? As machines become more sophisticated, will artificial intelligence be the evolution or the end of art? @UNSW @benknight38 @bexxmodd @BenjaminP3ters
How would you spend $7 billion to narrow digital divide? The Federal Communications Commission is now accepting public comment on the distribution of the $7.171 billion Emergency Connectivity Fund contained in President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act. This could be a good question to pose to your students. @Zalaznick @DA_magazine
Inspirational/Funny Tweets
@WSroufe
Humor, Music, Cool Stuff
the original transatlantic sessions 1 – This is three and a half hours long, but features first-rate folk music. Play when you are busy doing something else. @JerryDouglas @EmmylouSongbird @Kathymattea09 @irisdement
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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It is truly amazing how many ways Facebook impacts our culture. It causes fear for many organizations, results in real people losing real jobs, and less driving by teens, which sounds good to me. Page two suggests live streaming school events, tips for customizing learning, ignorance as a weapon, and a player piano that picks up tweets. Also check out my summary of Flip Your Classroom.
To Scale: The Solar System – On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends builds the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe. If you make the Earth your kids can do this in your neighborhood. Here is another scale model. @ramseymeyer @MarkRober
Leadership/Parenting
The Cardboard Speed Challenge – From grocery garbage to shipping leftovers, there is cardboard surrounding us. Show us your cardboard creations (including corrugated, singly-ply tagboard, paper rolls, and more) for a chance to win a digital gift card in the Cardboard Speed Challenge. @askinstructable @instructables @rmbyrne
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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Homeless man becomes the first person to live in a 3D-printed house. On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, 70-year-old Shea has settled into his 400-square-foot home constructed by 3-D printing. His new home is situated in the Community First! Village site. @MaryKJacob @brannonveal @nypost
Don’t Go Down a Coronavirus Anxiety Spiral. Here’s what you can do to relieve your worries, while still keeping you and your family safe. This is also good advice for leaders. @lmatsakis @weird
Inspirational/Funny Tweets
@chrishowardlive
Humor, Music, Cool Stuff
Top 10 Eurovision Song Contest Songs – Go to Youube and search “Eurovision 2021″ to find the current song from your favorite country. @Eurovision @WatchMojo
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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Why Learner-Centered Education is the Key to Meaningful School Improvement – Effective educators have long known that one-size-fits-all approaches to teaching and learning are insufficient. Through extraordinary effort, they have figured out ways to differentiate and personalize learning for their students. @katiemartinedu @dvodicka @Getting_Smart @AltitudeLearn
How to Return to Running After a Break – Look, just because you could run a five-miler every weekend last fall doesn’t mean you can bust one out today. @BethSkw @lifehacker @VitalsLH
Lead with Grace: Leaning into the Soft Skills of Leadership – Pressures and demands at work can sway who we are and how we do it into a personality that favors more likes than the authentic interactions that are needed to establish deep relationships with the students we are serving. @JessicaCabeen @markbarnes19
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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The Surprising Power of Simply Asking Coworkers How They’re Doing – Humans have an innate need to belong — to one another, to our friends and families, and to our culture and country. The same is true when we’re at work. @KTwaronite_EY @HarvardBiz @moversaurus
Listine 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 – It’s popular to say that hybrid learning is negatively impacting poor students who generally attend schools with lots of discipline issues. Is it possible that some poor kids who make a serious effort to learn aren’t the big winners? There may be stresses at home, but not many bullies. @DrDougGreen @mssackstein
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