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The News Literacy Project is hosting a free webinar series Understanding Misinformation and How to Talk to People Who Believe It to foster more productive conversations free of misinformation among friends and family members and across generations — particularly during the holidays. The series is sponsored by the Fore River Foundation and is being offered in partnership with AARP’s OATS/Senior Planet program. John Silva, NLP’s senior director of professional learning, and Elizabeth Price, NLP’s manager of professional learning, will lead the sessions.
These free webinars will help participants understand what misinformation is, how people come to believe it and how to effectively and compassionately communicate and debunk those beliefs. While older adults play a critical role in sorting fact from fiction and helping others to do so, everyone can benefit from resources and support to help prevent harm from mis- and disinformation. Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2-3 p.m. ET. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2-3 p.m. ET. Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2-3 p.m. ET.
Shortly after leaving high school as a student, I was bantering with some friends about our teachers and someone remarked about Stan, a gnarly old poetry teacher. The comment was that Stan had “really taught them how to think”.
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When Thanksgiving break rolled around last month, teachers all over the country breathed a collective sigh of relief. This school year hasn’t exactly been a cakewalk, and, like most teachers, I was delighted to finally be getting a few days off and some quality time with my children. I was looking forward to big meals, cozy nights at home with my family, and lots of love, laughter, and relaxation.
Unfortunately, I know that this kind of fun and fulfilling break is not a reality for many of my students. And a couple of days into the break I couldn’t resist texting my co-teacher to chat about the same worries that plague us day in and day out.
“Do you think Jake’s parents are leaving him at home alone all day?”
“Mia complained of an earache Friday. I hope her grandmother will take her to the doctor if it gets worse.”
“Did Kira say she was going to her dad’s over Thanksgiving? She’s always so emotional after she visits him, and she’s allergic to his dog.”
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In our 24/7 breaking news world, there seems to be a new crisis every day. As news outlets compete for clicks, all of us -- including kids -- are immersed in more headlines than ever before. Unless you teach current events or social studies, most of the day's news probably won't make it into your classroom. But certain news events are just too big to ignore. When this happens, a lot of teachers ask themselves: How should I address this with my students? And, should I address this at all?
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When students begin to plan, monitor, and evaluate their learning, they develop self-regulation and can set more ambitious goals.
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Giving emotional support is a way of helping people feel connected and less alone. This is not always easy, and different situations call for different types of support.
What does it mean to create a digitally genius school? A new six-episode series will help explore the digital transformation of your school.
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Consistent exposure to music, like learning to play a musical instrument, or taking voice lessons, strengthens a particular set of academic and social-emotional skills that are essential to learning. In ways that are unmatched by other pursuits, like athletics for instance, learning music powerfully reinforces language skills, builds and improves reading ability, and strengthens memory and attention, according to the latest research on the cognitive neuroscience of music.
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These are some of the best Google tricks and tips that most people don't know about. Master these and you'll be a pro at Googling! Make your surfing easier now.
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Free resources on accommodation, conflict, burnout, stress, managing change, supporting newcomers, union issues, return to work, performance and more. Use them to help make a difference.
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Changing our beliefs, especially in an educational setting, can be really hard. After all, there are many myths about creativity that everyone believes! At the same time, it would be such a missed opportunity for teachers to not do what they can to support their students and help them achieve their creative potential. This can be done through teaching for creativity, nurturing their intrinsic motivation, and questioning the fact that creativity isn’t for your students, among others.
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When I taught early American history, my students and I discussed both the tragedies and the triumphs surrounding the founding of the United States. My students—mostly Black and Latino—could appreciate the grandeur of the Washington Crossing the Delaware painting, while simultaneously empathizing with Phillis Wheatley’s poetic longings for equality. A culturally responsive approach to teaching inspires deep conversations and can be equal parts challenging and rewarding.
Over time, I’ve come to realize that understanding the principles of culturally responsive education and actually being a culturally responsive educator are not synonymous. Bridging the gap between theoretical knowledge and successful execution may include mistakes, such as jumping into sensitive topics without building trust or making assumptions about students’ lived experiences. There are three key steps to help navigate difficult conversations in a culturally responsive way.
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Active listening means, as its name suggests, actively listening. When actively listening, you are fully concentrating on what is being said and not thinking about what you will say next. It means listening with a genuine desire to understand the speaker’s feelings and perspective without placing judgment. In addition, active listening involves listening with all your senses. Interest can be conveyed to the speaker by using both verbal and nonverbal cues, like nodding your head or agreeing by saying “yes” to encourage them to continue speaking. By providing these cues, the person speaking will usually feel more at ease and communicate more easily and openly.
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A four-stage framework can help teachers understand the burnout process—and what they can do to protect their well-being and career.
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Strengthening community bonds in elementary school can start with simple ideas like celebrating personal and academic milestones.
The growing demand for written content has made the use of correct grammar more important than ever before. Due to the growing competition on digital platforms, bloggers and influencers with proper grammar skills are preferred by both audiences and brands. The importance of grammar can be seen equally in both universities and workplaces. Thus, whether…
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In the classic children’s book, “Henny Penny,” the title character, Henny, a chicken, fears that the sky is falling when an acorn drops on her head. She quickly creates mass hysteria among her animal peers. In the story, she frantically considers multiple explanations before finally arriving at the truth: the sky is, in fact, not falling.
The moral of this oft-told tale is quite clear: Don’t respond with panic and leap to inaccurate conclusions that incite confusion or anger. Instead, evaluate the facts.
Our education system is having its own Henny Penny moment, with loud voices from the right generating and spreading panic that social and emotional learning, or SEL, endangers and “indoctrinates” students. SEL and “critical race theory”—a little-understood academic concept that conservatives have capitalized on to stoke fear among parents—have been willfully conflated in recent public discourse by disingenuous, politically motivated agitators, causing hysteria.
Practicing microproductivity by breaking large tasks down into smaller, easier-to-complete ones, can save time and help educators and students tackle daunting projects
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Our series explores the many facets that technology can bring to a school to help them be as digitally effective as possible through the eyes of educational experts who have already been through it.
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Inside The MagPi magazine #117
- **Build a Raspberry Pi Smart Garden.** Automate your plants, power up your patio, and have fun with outdoor gadgets. Have fun in the sun with your microcomputer.
- **High-end audio special.** Set up a whole house audio system with Raspberry Pi.
- **Monitoring shipwrecks.** Makers in Athens use Raspberry Pi to keep track of underwater archaeological sites.
- **Emulate a C64 with Pico.** How Raspberry Pi Pico is used to emulate Commodore’s classic computer.
- **TARDIS treasure hunt.** Use Raspberry Pi and LEGO to create a Doctor Who-themed treasure party.
- **WIN! Five Argon EON NAS stations are up for grabs.** Download Free PDF
Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when. The question is, what can schools do to prioritize and support the mental health and well-being of the invaluable educators at the heart of their school communities?
When it comes to optimizing learning, we don’t value breaks enough, neuroscientists suggest in a new study.
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If you’ve ever watched your not-so-sure-footed kids ascend a tall—very tall—rope climbing structure at the playground, or hoist themselves atop a large, wobbly log in the woods, or attempt the monkey bars alone for the first time (at breakneck speed), you may have felt the urge to call out, “Be careful!” And why? Because arms do get broken at playgrounds and no one wants a trip to the ER. And, likely, because you heard it a lot when you were growing up.
But there are several reasons this oft-repeated parental admonition can do more harm than good. (And several better ways to help your kids generate risk awareness and engage in safe behaviors.) Here’s why you should steer clear of this common phrase—and what you can say instead.
The metaverse is a (potential network of) 3D virtual world(s) on the internet. These worlds are typically designed to be highly social and require users to have virtual identities, often through avatars with specific attributes. These worlds can provide a sense of ownership over virtual items such as land, building and artwork, as they typically have their own virtual economy with their own currency. Examples of these worlds today include Second Life, Fortnite, Roblox, The Sandbox, Decentraland and Somnium.
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But the biggest lesson Farran has drawn from her research is that we've simply asked too much of pre-K, based on early results from what were essentially showcase pilot programs. "We tend to want a magic bullet," she says.
"Whoever thought that you could provide a 4-year-old from an impoverished family with 5 1/2 hours a day, nine months a year of preschool, and close the achievement gap, and send them to college at a higher rate?" she asks. "I mean, why? Why do we put so much pressure on our pre-K programs?"
We might actually get better results, she says, from simply letting little children play.
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