Dr. Doug Makes The Blog Frog in the Parenting Category. The Blog Frog has a simple mission: provide insights on the best blogs across 16 categories. They identify the top blogs so you get the best content. Look for mine under parenting and give me a vote. @TheBlogFrog @tapinfluence

Top Data Science Influencers on Twitter to Follow in 2020 – This looks like a pretty good group of people to follow if you want to stay hip. @ivyproschool @KirkDBorne @schmarzo

Social/Mobile Media Education

The iOS 14 Privacy and Security Features You Should Know – The latest update for your iPhone and iPad will make them safer than ever. @davidnield @WIRED

Learning

Election Night 2020 could go on for weeks — just look at the primaries. If you hope to settle in to watch the Nov. 3 results, you may want to make other plans. During this year’s Democratic primaries, it took days, and sometimes weeks, for the bulk of votes to get counted. @kevinschaul @ashlynstill @washingtonpost

Leadership/Parenting

How to handle the handoff conversation – Do the people you work with expect you to create training on demand? By changing how you talk to them, you can steer them away from an information dump and help them solve the real problem. @CatMoore

Inspirational/Funny Tweets

@dederittman

Humor, Music, Cool Stuff

This ‘Bardcore’ Medieval Style Cover of AC/DC’s Thundestruck Works So Well. That accoridon twang on a ’90s hard rock riff just hits different. @JohanCarlsberg @acdc

Recent Book Summaries

IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

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 You can get it here.

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley – Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott

The Knowledge GAP: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros with Katie Novak

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What Students Truly Mean When They Say They’re Bored (And What to Do About It). If activities are either too hard or too easy, students may struggle to pay attention. While it may seem obvious that easy things can be boring, so can overly difficult challenges. Check out my summary of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth @angeladuckw @educationweek

Asynchronous vs. Synchronous: How to Design for Each Type of Learning. The question many teachers are asking is, “How should I spend my limited time with students in the classroom or in video conferencing sessions? What is the best use of that time?” @Catlin_Tucker @cultofpedagogy @BethHouf

Augmented Reality Seeing the benefits is believing. Will augmented reality create more distraction than enhancement? @Jan_Kallberg @C4ISRNET @kashyapvyaas @KabelSistemas

Social/Mobile Media Education

Data Isn’t a Four-Letter Word. Teaching students to evaluate online information and understand data is critical, especially in today’s tech-focused world. @RobJLow @eschoolnews

Learning

Highlight negative results to improve science. Publishers, reviewers, and other members of the scientific community must fight science’s preference for positive results — for the benefit of all, says Devang Mehta. @drdevangm @NatureIndex

Leadership/Parenting

Why mass notification systems can help during the pandemic – Schools can leverage mass notification systems to keep their communities and stakeholders informed as schools resume virtual and in-person teaching this fall. @eschoolnews

Inspirational/Funny Tweets

@ERobbPrincipal

Humor, Music, Cool Stuff

Autistic Comedian Jokes About What It’s Like Having A Non-Autistic Brother. I would show this to middle and high school kids as it normalizes autistic kids. @joewellscomic @emixpod

Recent Book Summaries

IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

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

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley – Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott

The Knowledge GAP: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros with Katie Novak

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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.

Most organizations fear social media. Harvard Business Review – @gcouros @HarvardBiz

Eleven Ways To Lose Your Job On Facebook @Jeffbullass @gcouros

Fewer teens getting driver’s licenses thanks to social media. @colonelb

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Fostering a Classroom Community Virtually or In-Person – With so many learners either 100% remote or in a hybrid learning model, we must ensure that we don’t lose the human side of teaching. @ElisaBostwick @drneilgupta @gcouros

In Preschools, Sharing and Playtime Look Different Now. To support young children’s social and developmental skills, preschools have had to get creative with what were once mainstay classroom practices. @csheasley @edutopia @lainierowell @Rdene915

How to Increase Your Grit Factor – Check out Shannon Huffman Polson’s The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World. @ABorderLife @SkipPrichard

Social/Mobile Media Education

Five Challenges Standing In The Way Of The Success Of VR – Virtual Reality is becoming a big name in fields ranging from education, training, research, marketing, customer service, and much more. It essentially allows humans to live in their dream world and visualize their imagination easily. For this reason, it can transform every sector of our lives. @automeme @DPrasanthNair @Nicochan33 @mikko

Learning

Would You Swim In An Icelandic Lagoon Filled With Power Plant Waste Water? Iceland is geologically active and has numerous high-pressure hot water reservoirs, including an artificial hot water beach. After years of experimenting and research, the Blue Lagoon was born. A wonder of the world, they let you take a dip in geothermal power plant wastewater for $35. I’ve been there and it is very cool. @tomscott

Leadership/Parenting

Empathetic Remote and Hybrid Learning – Now more than ever, empathy is needed to help everyone get through remote or hybrid learning. The reality is that successes are and have been, overshadowed by fear, stress, and anxiety at levels never experienced. @E_Sheninger @jenhegna

Inspirational/Funny Tweets

@drmike_goddard

Humor, Music, Cool Stuff

2020 U.S. Open: Flyovers of Winged Foot Golf Club’s West Course, all 18 Holes – This includes strategic insights as to how the world’s best players will attack the iconic layout. @usopengolf @USGA @Deloitte

Recent Book Summaries

IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

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

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley – Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott

The Knowledge GAP: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros with Katie Novak

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How Good Grammar Saves Lives and Other Reasons It’s Still Important – Your grammar skills, whether good or bad, often leave people with a lasting impression about who you are. @InfoWizcase

Five Principles to Guide Adaptive Leadership – The Covid-19 pandemic is constantly evolving, with leaders facing unpredictability, imperfect information, multiple unknowns, and the need to identify responses quickly. @benramalingam @davidnabarro @ruthcarnall @E_Sheninger

Why maps matter in our response to COVID-19 – The most useful maps and data visualizations of the COVID-19 pandemic have helped us understand, respond to and recover from the crisis. @robmuggah @wef @automeme @mvollmer1 @wef @Nicochan33

Social/Mobile Media Education

Ten Teachers Taking Their Socially Distanced Classrooms to the Next Level. @Bored_Teachers @education_world

Learning

Outdoor Education Cookbook: Virtual Nature Walks – Lesson plans for teachers who want to get outside. @MadForMaple @ChrisQuinn64 @wordpressdotcom

Leadership/Parenting

Four ways to keep your school resilient during distance learning 2.0 – As the nation enters an uncertain new school year, being prepared and decisive during distance learning will be paramount to success. @eschoolnews

Inspirational/Funny Tweets

@teachergoals

Humor, Music, Cool Stuff

How This One Note Ended Up Dominating The Entire Pop Music Landscape – The guy explains the concept of the ‘supertonic’ in less than two minutes and then elaborates. @andrewhuang

Recent Book Summaries

IEP & Section 504 Team Meetings…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

Grading, Reporting, Graduating…and the Law by Miriam Kurtzig Freedman

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

Reprogramming the American Dream: From Rural America to Silicon Valley – Making AI Serve Us All by Kevin Scott

The Knowledge GAP: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System and How to Fix It by Natalie Wexler

Upstream: How to Solve Problems Before They Happen by Dan Heath

Innovate Inside the Box: Empowering Learners Through UDL and the Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros with Katie Novak

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