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Newsela – beyond reading levels
For educators wanting an alternative to textbook-focused instruction or quality compliments to textbook-focused instruction using historical documents and quality news stories, Newsela may provide just what you are looking for. In addition to the carefully curated content, the education service … Continue reading
WordPress ‘Gutenberg’ Design Flaw
The Gutenberg plugin for WordPress has a characteristic I find very annoying. This “defect” occurs when I select a phrase that signals the link to another page. The “word processing” options including the link button appears (white bar), but is … Continue reading
Data Care Act (proposed)
Several Senate Democrats have proposed a Data Care Act. It seems obvious that there is pressure for politicians to impose expectations on online companies to address concerns for the use and protection of user information. I have concerns that Republicans … Continue reading
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Hungry caterpillars and ed book critiques
Dean Shareski posed a question on Twitter about the lack of critical reviews of education books. The tweet generated an interesting discussion which you can probably still read if you search Twitter for Shareski soon after this post appears. Just … Continue reading
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Models are not strategies
I came across an article written from a brain-based model of learning that makes the point I have also made many times. A model of how learning happens is not intended as a recipe for instruction. To me, a description … Continue reading
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Should have stopped with PageRank
I was a fan of Google and Google search from the beginning because their algorithm for prioritizing search results made sense to me. Pagerank was similar to citation frequency which academics recognize as an indication of the importance of their … Continue reading
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