The Educator's Notebook

7 Steps Adults Can Take To Discourage Bullying
SmartBrief - 1/8/20

“Parents and educational staff need different tactics to address -- and end -- bullying. Many of the suggestions that are provided here are what clinicians encourage clients toward during the course of therapy. While therapeutic intervention often only involves a single person, or a handful of individuals, the school environment provides the opportunity to affect positive change on a broad scale.”
Sleep Helps Learning. Even More: Consistent Sleep Helps Learning
Science News for Students - 1/3/20

“Sleep length, quality and consistency together accounted for 24.4 percent of the difference among the students’ test grades. And these factors appeared especially important for boys. Grossman’s team is not sure why. But boys who didn’t get enough sleep or regular sleep were likely to do worse on an exam than were girls who had similar sleep patterns.”

A Deep Dive Into Google Translate
Quartz - 1/8/20
Can Fewer 1st Person Shooters Mean More Girls In eSports?
74 Million - 1/7/20
You Can Use AirPods As A Makeshift Hearing Aid
Komando - 1/4/20

“If you have ever had difficulty hearing someone during a conversation, AirPods can be your on-demand hearing aid. Apple introduced a feature, starting with iOS 12, called Live Listen. Once set up, you can place your iPhone closer to the person you want to hear, and the AirPods will produce clearer audio for you.”

From Open Offices To “Deep-Work Chambers”
Wall Street Journal - 1/9/20
Treadmill Desks, Personal Workplace Analytics: Stephen Wolfram Reports
Fast Company - 1/9/20
Can Installing Air Filters Significantly Improve Student Performance?
Vox - 1/8/20

“The impact of the air filters is strikingly large given what a simple change we’re talking about. The school district didn’t reengineer the school buildings or make dramatic education reforms; they just installed $700 commercially available filters that you could plug into any room in the country. But it’s consistent with a growing literature on the cognitive impact of air pollution, which finds that everyone from chess players to baseball umpires to workers in a pear-packing factory suffer deteriorations in performance when the air is more polluted.”

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