The Educator's Notebook

Understanding Linguistic Communities On The Internet. Fascinating.
Baffler - 7/17/19

“By using informal writing to convey the regular dramas of human life, they also started reshaping informal writing into something that could deeply convey the full range of human emotions… This leads to miscommunication, of course, between generations of Internet People… How we talk online is determined by our linguistic community, which in turn is largely determined by where we were when we first encountered social media.”
No Tests. No Grades. Idaho School Pioneers Deep Character-Based Transcript
The 74 Million - 7/15/19

“In place of a straightforward transcript listing letter grades and a grade point average, admissions officers received the growth transcript, which provides rich information on student progress in four broad areas: Mindset, knowledge, creativity and skills. Under each of those four categories, eight subcategories provide a granular look at students’ progress over their three years at One Stone in a bar chart format. That’s 32 data points to analyze and evaluate.”

Bully Rates Remains Constant, But More Is Online Than Before
Washington Post - 7/16/19

“Twenty percent of students between the ages of 12 and 18 were bullied during the 2016-2017 school year, according to the report from the National Center for Education Statistics, the research arm of the U.S. Education Department. Among those students who faced bullying, 15 percent said they were bullied online or by text, a 3.5 percentage point jump from the 2014-2015 school year.”

Remarkable Collection Of Tools To Overcome Test Anxiety
Medium - 7/17/19
Willingham: “The High Price Of Multitasking”
New York Times - 7/14/19

“The cost of shuffling goals and mental rules is harmless if there’s predictable downtime during one or both tasks. As a conference call turns to an agenda item irrelevant to you, go ahead and answer email. Multitasking while driving is so dangerous because driving requires all of your attention at unpredictable times. People sense this, and when on the phone they drive slower and increase their following distance, but they are far too confident that these measures mitigate risk.”

Political Diversity Improves Team Outcomes, When Harnessed Well
Harvard Business Review - 7/15/19

“Guidelines and policies are not simply rules concerning what may be written; they constitute a culture by stipulating appropriate social conduct, such as how editors treat one another in talk-page debates.”

11,500 Scholars Rank Global Universities
Times Higher Education - 7/12/19

“The world’s largest invitation-only opinion survey of senior, published academics. It asks scholars to name no more than 15 universities that they believe are the best for research and teaching in their field, based on their own experience.”

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