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Turkle: Presence Matters. Machines Cannot Provide Artificial Intimacy.
New York Times - 8/11/18

“Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer companion in the future, and she described the upside to me. It’s not that the robot she’d imagined, a vastly more sophisticated Siri, was so inspiring. It’s that she’d already found people to be so disappointing. And now, for the first time, she explained me, people have options. Back then I thought her comments seemed prescient. Now I find them timely.”
How To Craft Your Teaching Job To Be The Best It Can Be For You
ASCD - 8/1/18

"We make countless choices to change how we interact with our job. Each of these choices influences how we feel about teaching. Psychologists call these choices "job crafting." Job crafting, say psychologists Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane E. Dutton, is the actions employees take to redesign their work in order to foster engagement, satisfaction, resilience, and thriving. This means being intentional about how we engage with the tasks, people, and purpose that compose our careers.”

adolescence

“About 1 in 4 Young Adults Use Marijuana”
Gallup - 8/15/18

athletics

On The Benefits Of Exercise (Karate) For Aging Well
New York Times - 8/16/18

"Exercise, participate in mentally challenging activities, and eat a healthful diet. The latest research suggests social connections are important as well.”

character

"Talking About Failure… Here’s How To Do It Right”
New York Times - 8/17/18
“The Science Of What Makes People Care” - Five Principles
Stanford Social Innovation Review - 8/16/18

"Effective communication is not simply about getting your message out. It requires you to strategically tap into what shapes people’s feelings and values. Here we share five principles pulled from social science that will help you connect your work to what people care most about.”
“5 Thoughts On Self-Help"
Austin Kleon - 8/15/18
A Deck Of Cards With Phrases To Encourage Resilience
Swissmiss - 8/14/18
Exploring Both Sides Of Whether We Should Follow Our Passions
Medium - 8/3/18

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Thoughtfully Challenging (Or Contextualizing) Grit And Growth Mindsets
AMLE - 8/1/18

cognitive science

An Interview About How Smell Affects Us
Quartz - 8/16/18
“An Underappreciated Key To College Success: Sleep”
New York Times - 8/13/18

early childhood

On The Role Of Chores In Early Childhood
New York Times - 8/18/18

“Children who help more at home feel a larger sense of obligation and connectedness to their parents, and that connection helps them weather life’s stressful moments — in other words, it helps them be happier.”

higher ed

Frank Bruni On How To Be Intentional In College
New York Times - 8/17/18

"I asked Mitchell scholars if there was a department or discipline that they wished they had paid more heed. Science majors mentioned humanities. Humanities majors mentioned computer science and statistics. In retrospect, if not in real time, intellectually curious people appreciate and want the benefits of balance. So incorporate it, to some degree, in your college years.”
“Akron Will Phase Out 80 Degree Programs, Open New Esports Facilities”
Chronicle of Higher Education - 8/16/18
NYU School Of Medicine Goes Tuition-Free
Chronicle of Higher Education - 8/16/18
Alternatives: “How To Get A Degree Without Going To University”
Guardian - 8/12/18

humanities

Value The Canon, Sure, But Recognize The Strength Of New, Diverse Poets
Atlantic - 9/1/18

"More than a few of this generation’s bright lights found poetry first through performance, or come from communities where “spoken word” and “poetry” are not separate lanes. Other poets have shown a talent for building an audience in less embodied ways.”
A List Of Latin American Texts — And The Canonical Texts They Can Replace
Remezcla - 8/9/18

“Below is a list of nine books that you can read in addition to (or, we don’t want to tell you not to do you your homework, buuuut…) the canonical texts on your curriculum. And remember, the best part of making your own curriculum is debating and amending it, so have at it in the comments.”
"2017 Notable Poetry Books For Children”
NCTE - 7/1/18

leadership

College President Spends 2 Nights In Freshman Dorm During Orientation
Chronicle of Higher Education - 8/15/18

“One of my senior leaders, the vice president of student affairs, and I had been talking about how to make ourselves much more student-centered in every aspect of the school. He suggested it’d be good and informative for me to spend a couple of nights during orientation week with the freshmen, and it coincided with the fact that this is my first freshman class that I’ll be with for the entire year. I immediately thought, “This is a brilliant idea,” and said yes.”
On The Benefits Of Calling Parents When Good Things Happen, Too
ASCD - 8/1/18

professional development

Online Professional Development For Teachers Is Growing
eSchool News - 8/14/18
The Best Teachers Seek Peer Advice. Weaker Teachers Don’t.
British Psychological Society - 8/3/18

reading/writing

Tips For Encouraging Kids To Read
Quartz - 8/14/18

"Parents looking to encourage reading look out for environments that are “impoverished”—that, places where kids might be a bit bored—and fill those spaces up with books.”
Formatically: A Really, Really, Really Easy To Use Citation Tool
Larry Ferlazzo - 8/12/18
“Books Are The Only Form Of Physical Media Whose Sales Are Growing”
Strategy-Business - 8/9/18
Three Reasons Why Austin Klein Keeps A Diary
Austin Kleon - 2/20/18

social media

A Deep Look At SES Differences In Facebook/Social Media Use
Quartz - 8/15/18

“While only one-third of kids from families with higher incomes said they are on Facebook, Pew reported recently, a much larger share of teens from lower-income backgrounds… said that they still use the platform… A 2015 Pew Research Center survey also found that higher-income teens hang out with their close friends in person at a higher rate than kids from low-income households.”
Tufekci: Five Lessons From The Rise Of Social Media In Political Culture
MIT Technology Review - 8/14/18
More On Risks Of Snapchat Selfie Filters
Vox - 8/10/18

"Edited and filtered photos can exacerbate body dysmorphic disorder, the relentless fixation with a perceived flaw in appearance… “The pervasiveness of these filtered images can take a toll on one’s self-esteem, make one feel inadequate for not looking a certain way in the real world, and may even act as a trigger and lead to body dysmorphic disorder.”
On Why Kids Have Finstas and Rinstas (Fake And Real Media Accounts)
Quartz - 8/30/17

tech

“There Is No Tech Solution To Deepfakes”
Vice - 8/14/18

"The Department of Defense can’t save us. Technology won’t save us. Being more critically-thinking humans might save us, but that’s a system that’s lot harder to debug than an AI algorithm.”
"We Are Merging With Robots. That’s A Good Thing.”
New York Times - 8/13/18
Some Social Studies Classes Experiment With VR Exploration
The Messenger - 8/11/18
“The Best Educational YouTube Channels For Kids”
EdExcellence - 8/8/18

visual design

Infographic Explanation Of Computational Design
Visual Capitalist - 8/16/18

workplace

4 Day School Week. 18,000 Student Denver District Drops Mondays.
Inc. - 4/16/18

other

The 2018 Horizon Report Is Out (Higher Ed Edition)
Educause - 8/16/18
Audrey Watters On The History Of The Horizon Report
Hack Education - 8/16/18
“A Running Tally Of Items… Asked For At The Circulation Desk”
Literary Hub - 8/15/18
“Paradoxes Of Efficiency In Education”
Larry Cuban - 8/12/18
David Remnick On Aretha Franklin
New Yorker - 4/4/16

"What distinguishes her is not merely the breadth of her catalogue or the cataract force of her vocal instrument; it’s her musical intelligence, her way of singing behind the beat, of spraying a wash of notes over a single word or syllable, of constructing, moment by moment, the emotional power of a three-minute song. “Respect” is as precise an artifact as a Ming vase.”

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