The Educator's Notebook

YouTube And TikTok Catapult To Top Of Teen Social Media Use
Pew Research - 8/10/22

“YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms covered in the Center’s new survey, as it is used by 95% of teens. TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six-in-ten teens… This study also explores the frequency with which teens are on each of the top five online platforms: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook. Fully 35% of teens say they are using at least one of them “almost constantly.””
McLuhan Was Right. The Medium Really Is The Message
New York Times - 8/7/22

“McLuhan’s view is that mediums matter more than content; it’s the common rules that govern all creation and consumption across a medium that change people and society. Oral culture teaches us to think one way, written culture another. Television turned everything into entertainment, and social media taught us to think with the crowd.”

Four Categories Of Tests: High/Low Stakes, And Individual/Group
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 7/26/22

“While both low- and high-stakes group assessments offer broad accountability and transparency, parents can still get a sense of their child’s learning if they know what to look at.”

10 Rules Of Thumb — Or “Cognitive Razors” — For Good Thinking
Visual Capitalist - 8/15/22
“New Study Confirms The Value Of Solitude”
Cal Newport - 8/8/22
On The Importance Of Knowledge (Via The Science Of Reading)
Knowledge Matters - 8/1/22

“Reading success requires much more than foundational skills. There are other factors critical for literacy development, including those that address language, meaning, and communication. Among the most important is knowledge. Knowledge is necessary to comprehend what we read. Foundational skills are literally meaningless unless readers can make sense of words and texts. This sense-making requires knowledge that must be systematically built (not just activated!) through instructional experiences and curricula that evoke curiosity and the desire to learn more. In short, knowledge matters.”

“Keeping Your Team Motivated When Your Company Is Struggling”
Harvard Business Review - 8/17/22
Pandemic Impacts On Leaders And Teachers
RAND Corporation - 8/11/22
Six Truths About Leadership, Especially Right Now
NAIS - 8/9/22

“Don’t mistake dilemmas for problems. A problem has a solution; you fix it. A dilemma is built into a situation; you cope with it.”
“10 Principles Of Effective Organizations”
Harvard Business Review - 8/8/22
7 Leadership Styles, And When To Use Them
American Express - 6/17/22

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How We Can Talk And Work More WIth Our Teens About Their Screens
Boston Globe - 8/16/22

“You can practice an us-and-them approach in other ways, too. Try co-browsing — looking together through a social media feed and sharing your reactions with each other as you browse.”
Weighing The Costs And Benefits Of School Cellphone Bans
Harvard Graduate School of Education - 8/10/22

“In my research, my thinking was that as schools consider removal of bans or enforcement, they should also consider often overlooked dimensions of school culture that could play a role in educational productivity and student wellbeing. That is not to say academic achievement is not important — it is — but there are other potentially important inputs that contribute to educational productivity such as school discipline and culture.”
Teaching Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, and NFTs To 5th Graders
Social Media in Education - 7/26/22

What Is “Quiet Quitting”? Is It Actually Just Setting Healthy Boundaries?
NPR - 8/19/22
“Three R’s For First-Year Teachers”
Edutopia - 8/16/22

“Good teaching is about more than lesson plans. Focusing on relationships, reflection, and resilience can help new teachers thrive.”
“For New Teachers, 6 Principles To Remember This Year”
Edutopia - 8/12/22
8+ Ideas To Manage Your Workload
Pernille Ripp - 2/28/22

“The Credence Clearwater Revival Revival”
New Yorker - 8/17/22
The Microsoft Excel World Championships Is Beyond Your Imagination
Tech Radar - 8/11/22

“Over the weekend, ESPN broadcast a replay of a recent esports event that saw the world’s most advanced Microsoft Excel users go head-to-head in a knockout tournament.”
On The Difference Between Complicated And Complex Problems
Larry Cuban - 8/11/22
“Doing A Little Word Puzzle As The World Burns”
Nieman Lab - 8/10/22

“I started playing word games as a way to stop reading the news first thing in the morning.”
The Principles Of Clowning
Funny How - 8/8/22

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