The Educator's Notebook

"How To Create A Project Based Learning Lesson”
Cult of Pedagogy - 2/16/20

“So what does it look like to put these non-negotiables into practice and plan a project? I will walk you through the process I have come to embrace and share with teachers who cross my path, either through our time together in the trenches during project coaching, or when they pick up my book, Keep it Real with PBL”
Lit Review: The Effects Of Values And Self-Affirmations On Performance
Social And Personality Psychology Compass - 1/1/13

“The purpose of the present review is to (i) summarize self-affirmation theory; (ii) review major new discoveries in affirmation research with an emphasis on how affirmations affect defensiveness, stress, and academic performance under identity threat; and (iii) present a general theoretical account of how these effects occur.”

“Why Teenagers Reject Parents’ Solutions To Their Problems”
New York Times - 2/18/20
Post-Ban: What Kids Are Vaping Now
NPR - 2/17/20

“"Juul is almost old school ... It's no longer the teen favorite," says Meredith Berkman, co-founder of the advocacy group PAVE, Parents Against Vaping E-cigarettes. "Among the disposables [that] are most popular, there's Puff Bar, there's Stig, there's Viigo," Berkman says. They're designed for one-time use. Then, they're tossed, she explains. "These have just flooded the market," Berkman says.”

Be Yourself - It May Make You More Successful
Harvard Business Review - 2/20/20
IQ, EQ… AQ? Adaptability Quotient As The Key To Work Success
BBC - 11/6/19
More On The Prevalence Of Self-Affirmation
Journal Of Health Psychology - 5/9/16

“Engaging in spontaneous self-affirmation was related to greater happiness, hopefulness, optimism, subjective health, and personal health efficacy, and less anger and sadness.”

“TV Tropes” - A List of Repeated Forms Used In Media Storytelling
Slate - 2/14/20

“Whenever I got into a new band or played a new game or watched a new movie, I still looked it up on TV Tropes. I had to understand it—and seeing the same tropes appearing over and over again made me realize that I was holding myself to an impossible standard. Nothing is original. Every great work of art—every film, movie, game, book, character, painting, or song—is just a mash of ideas. Someone else has already thought those thoughts.”

"The Search For New Words To Make Us Care About The Climate Crisis”
New Yorker - 2/21/20
“Garbage Language: Why Do Corporations Speak The Way They Do?”
Vulture - 2/20/20

“The meaningful threat of garbage language — the reason it is not just annoying but malevolent — is that it confirms delusion as an asset in the workplace.”
The NYT Spelling Bee: A Quick, Fun, Boggle-Like Word Game
Slate - 2/19/20
On The Cultural Force Of Black English (African American Vernacular English)
JStor - 2/12/20

“All along, while standard American English was busy convincing everyone that it was a superior dialect, it’s Black English that’s been a true cultural and linguistic force in contemporary society. Standard English is in fact deeply indebted to this so-called impoverished speech. It’s Black English that has left its mark on the popular culture we participate in, sliding seamlessly into the language of art, music, poetry, storytelling, and social media. Perhaps no other variety of speech has been quite so significant, innovative, and influential to the development of standard American English.”
A Visualization Of The 100 Most Spoken Languages In the World
WordTips - 2/1/20

“Garry Kasparov Has Made Peace With AI”
Wired - 2/21/20

“There are different machines, and it is the role of a human and understand exactly what this machine will need to do its best. At the end of the day it's about combination… With AlphaZero and future machines, I describe the human role as being shepherds. You just have to nudge the flock of intelligent algorithms. Just basically push them in one direction or another, and they will do the rest of the job. You put the right machine in the right space to do the right task.”
Three Tech-Driven Ideas About The Future Of Higher Ed
New York Times - 2/20/20

“It’s a… world in which students subscribe to rather than enroll in college, learn languages in virtual reality foreign streetscapes with avatars for conversation partners, have their questions answered day or night by A.I. teaching assistants and control their own digital transcripts that record every life achievement.”

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