Educational Resources & Tech Tools 11/12/2018

• Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules - The New York Times

  • Yet when it came to their bodies, girls said they did not feel equal. About three-quarters of girls 14 to 19 in the survey said they felt judged as a sexual object or unsafe as a girl. By far, they said society considered physical attractiveness to be the most important female trait — a view that adult women share, surveys have found. Girls were also more likely than boys to say they felt a lot of pressure to put others’ feelings before their own.

  • “I call it boys policing each other to be boyish, particularly when showing emotions or wanting to do something considered feminine, like volleyball or ballet. They have the sense that they can’t stray a bit.”

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 11/04/2018

• Where Kids Find Hate Online | Common Sense Media

  tags: digital citizenship hate speech bullying cyberbullying diversity

  • Just by playing a game on the internet, looking up a definition, or maybe checking out some music, they'll encounter some of the most vile and offensive words and images that can be expressed in the comments section of a YouTube video, a meme in their feed, or a group chat
  • The intensity of these ideas, the frequency with which kids see them, and the acceptance by so many that it's just part of internet life mean that it's critical to talk to kids about this difficult topic.
  • Are tech companies really that dedicated to free speech, or do they just want more users?
  • But when kids see the horrific race-, religion-, and gender-based attacks committed in the real world by members of online extremist groups, they must wonder why adults can't stop these hate crimes.
  • Ultimately, hate speech is an area where sharing your own family's values -- around compassion and tolerance, appropriate communication, and empathy toward other -- sets a stable path forward for your kids to follow even in unsettled times.
  • How would you feel if you were a member of the group targeted by cruel language?
  • Does it matter if you're exposed to it a lot or a little? Are people with different social statuses -- for example, a popular kid vs. a loner type -- affected differently?
  • What's the difference between hate speech and cyberbullying? If someone is trying to hurt someone, or knows that they're hurting someone, and does it repeatedly, that's cyberbullying. When someone expresses vicious views about a group or toward an attribute of a group, that's hate speech.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 08/10/2018

• The iGen Shift: Colleges Are Changing to Reach the Next Generation - The New York Times

  • A generation that rarely reads books or emails, breathes through social media, feels isolated and stressed but is crazy driven and wants to solve the world’s problems (not just volunteer) is now on campus.
  • They are a frugal but ambitious lot, less excited by climbing walls and e
  • n suite kitchens than by career development.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 06/21/2018

• Home | Jacob Burns Film Center

  Clearinghouse for film and media literacy. There are exercises and examples for teachers and students to learn from.

  tags: medialiteracy literacy media digital citizenship video film

• Home - Media Literacy Clearinghouse

  tags: medialiteracy literacy media information_literacy digital citizenship

• Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.

  tags: thesaurus vocabulary English ELA languagearts differentiation

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 06/20/2018

• Curriculum21 — Curriculum Mapping Software Resources

  Mapping software

  tags: curriculum mapping mapping

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/19/2018

• MEA Lessons - Home

  Model Eliciting Activities- Examples

  tags: MEA pbl project based learning

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/02/2018

• Onward: Stories and Resources to Cultivate Emotional Resilience

  Resources to help support teachers in their work while preventing burnout.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/24/2018

• Health Connected | Sex Ed Starts Here | TEEN TALK MIDDLE SCHOOL

  tags: sex ed human development health

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/11/2018

• Innertainment | WHY INNERTAINMENT NOW?

  • In this day and age, both the QUANTITY and the QUALITY of information has radically changed. This is a critical problem, because our psychological systems and our abilities for cognitive control are being pushed to their limits.
  • Noise today is defined as the combination of three things. First – relentless distraction (another text, another photo, another video…and on and on). Second – data overload (can’t possibly keep up). Third – distorted information (false “facts”, misleading stories, “hype”, deceptive websites, etc.).
  • Choice-Fullness is the power and awareness to choose wisely…to make purposeful choices that create meaning, fulfillment and authentic engagement in our lives…and the lives of those around us.
  • The Center For Innertainment believes that we can USE the entertainment medium in new and unique ways, to increase our expansion of human development and move us toward “high brain” executive functioning and along with it, higher levels of Choice-Fullness.

  • The Innertainment Playbook with its range of toolbox activities, provides Choice-Fullness strategies with an entertainment “twist”, for setting goals, time management, time design, communication, daily elevation and for developing our individual and unique personal story.

     

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/30/2018

• Opinion | Good Leaders Make Good Schools - The New York Times

  • “We have not found a single case of a school improving its student achievement record in the absence of talented leadership.”
  • students’ mind-sets were twice as powerful in predicting scores as home environment and demographics were.
  • Principals set the culture by their very behavior — the message is the person.
  • Research suggests that it takes five to seven years for a principal to have full impact on a school, but most principals burn out and leave in four years or less. Chicago has one of the highest principal retention rates of any large urban system, 85 percent. Principals are given support, training and independence.
  • successful principals made 20 to 60 spontaneous classroom visits and observations per week.
  • In other words, they are high-energy types constantly circulating through the building, offering feedback, setting standards, applying social glue.
  • successful schools are truly collaborative.
  • When you learn about successful principals, you keep coming back to the character traits they embody and spread: energy, trustworthiness, honesty, optimism, determination.

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/03/2018

• Anchors of Emotional Intelligence Institute in California - Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence | Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

  PD on emotional intelligence and SEL

  tags: SEL PD professional development

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/17/2018

• ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

  tags: tragedy societal tragedy

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