The Educator's Notebook

“How Higher Ed Is And Is Not Changing”
Inside Higher Ed - 8/8/19

“Whether higher ed can overcome the barriers to institutional and departmental collaboration is, to my mind, the next great challenge facing our colleges and universities.”
Your Mindset About Stress Matters, And Can Change Your Health
NPR - 8/2/19

“Can changing how you think about stress make you healthier? And here, the science says yes. When you change your mind about stress, you can change your body's response to stress. Your heart might be pounding. You might be breathing faster, maybe breaking out into a sweat. And normally, we interpret these physical changes as anxiety or signs that we aren't coping very well with the pressure… Participants who learned to view the stress response as helpful for their performance - well, they were less stressed out, less anxious, more confident. But the most fascinating finding to me was how their physical stress response changed.”

“3 Steps Principals Can Take To Stop New Teacher Attrition”
ASCD - 8/8/19
Some Factors In Teacher Retention
EdSurge - 8/5/19
6 Essential Time Management Strategies From Successful Leaders
Inc. - 8/4/19
Peter Kaufman On Multidisciplinary Thinking
Latticework Investing - 4/6/18

“Here are the six. Your customers, your suppliers, your employees, your owners, your regulators, and the communities you operate in. And if you can truly see through the eyes of all six of these counterparty groups and understand their needs, their aspirations, their insecurities, their time horizons. How many blind spots do you have now? Zero. How many mistakes are you going to make? You’re going to make zero. People don’t think this is possible. It’s really easy.”

AI Is Writing Better Ads Than Professional Copywriters
Quartz - 8/7/19

“In tests, JPMorgan Chase found that Persado’s machine-learning tool crafted better ad copy than its own writers could muster, as measured by the higher click rates—more than double in some case—on digital ads for Chase cards and mortgages.”
Frenchman Flies A Real Hoverboard Across The English Channel
New York Times - 8/4/19
Wish You Could Fly? (Me Too.) Forget Wingsuits, Try VR Drone Flying.
Digg - 7/31/19

“Was Email A Mistake?” — And Some Ideas On How To Fix It
New Yorker - 8/6/19

“There’s nothing intrinsically bad about e-mail as a tool. In situations where asynchronous communication is clearly preferable—broadcasting an announcement, say, or delivering a document—e-mails are superior to messengered printouts. The difficulties start when we try to undertake collaborative projects—planning events, developing strategies—asynchronously. In those cases, communication becomes drawn out, even interminable… Recently, the founder and C.E.O. of a publicly traded technology company told me that he spends at most two or three hours a week sending and receiving e-mails; he has replaced most of his asynchronous messaging with a “regular rhythm” of meetings, which allows him to efficiently address issues in real time.”
“A School Laptop Under $500 That Isn’t Junk”
New York Times - 8/6/19
Richard Cullata: 5 Big Ed Tech Problems To Solve
EdWeek - 8/6/19
On Email, “The Cockroach Of The Internet” - Its History And Prospects
Atlantic - 8/2/19
“What Every Educator Needs To Know About Artificial Intelligence”
EdWeek - 7/25/19

3 Tips for Working Smart Instead Of Working Hard
US News & World Report - 8/5/19
Maybe We’re Not All Actually Busier Than We Used To Be
Literary Review - 8/1/19

“The authors find little proof of increasing busyness among the population. Yes, as expected, people were spending far more time on digital devices in 2015 than they were in 2000. But the data provides little evidence that people now spend more time multitasking or that they’re switching more often from one activity to another, which might make our time seem fragmented and frantic. The perception that we’re all super busy might have grown, the authors say, because of the way that certain subgroups of the population who have seen an increase in their workloads – those who are highly educated, in higher-status jobs and in dual-career households with small children – are more likely to have an influential voice in society and the media and so might have helped to create an impression that everyone is now busier.”

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