Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: January 18: #CriticalThinking, #BookLists Galore + Laundromat #StoryTime
January 18, 2019
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #BookTalks, #FakeNews, #GraphicNovels, #GrowingBookworms, #JoyOfReading, #learning, #MentalHealth, #MiddleGrade, #play, #ReadingAloud, #SchoolImprovement, #ScreenTime, #STEM, #teaching, libraries, motivation, parenting, and publishing.
Top Tweet of the Week
Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching #CriticalThinking Skills In the Age of #FakeNews by @jenniferlagarde + @dhudgins @nerdybookclub ow.ly/x7zF30nhzfi | "we see skilled #teachers as the kryptonite against" it
Book Lists
10 Books for our Earliest Emergent Readers That Are Actually Enjoyable
#TeacherMom @HonorsGradU #BookList #PictureBooks #reading https://t.co/aLxkUyEfJI
RA RA Read: #Cybils organizer Jennifer Wharton rounds up #kidlit Stories w/ #Science themes for younger + #MiddleGrade readers ow.ly/6QhR30nigez #STEM #BookList
8 #ReadAloud #ChapterBooks Featuring #AdventurousGuys - followup #BookList from @literacious https://t.co/5Q72Faln0O
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#BookList right up my daughter's alley | Funny #GraphicNovel Series for (Younger) Kids ow.ly/Z8aL30njtQp @momandkiddo #LunchLady #ComicsSquad
New Timeless: Recent #PictureBooks + #MiddleGrade Titles That @100scopenotes Thinks Might Be Around a While ow.ly/JwU530nkjAn #kidlit #BookList
Events, Programs + Research
How the Chicago Public #Library Is Bringing #StoryTime to the Laundromat | @mental_floss via @tashrow ow.ly/jRs430nhyQP | #parents receive tips from #librarians on instilling #LoveOfReading at home
#ReadingAloud w/ #preschool children boosts language acquisition by eight months (+more for espec. socially disadvantaged kids) ow.ly/wg7b30nhyXa | Newcastle Univ. study funded by @NuffieldFound | @medical_xpress
Americans are happier in states that spend more on public goods inc. #libraries, parks + highways says @Baylor study ow.ly/9Ovt30nhyLA @EurekAlert via @tashrow | #Happiness
Growing Bookworms
On the importance of
#BookRecommendations in developing kids as readers | "one of the biggest gifts I can give our students is a passport into the #library... And that happens through a #booktalk" ow.ly/NYNa30nlccm @pernilleripp
What Happened to My #Reader? @fitzbtwnshelves + Jared Passmore share time-tested tips for overcoming #ReadingSlump in older kids @nerdybookclub ow.ly/KOte30nig6W | The biggest piece of the puzzle is also the simplest: #ReadingChoice
Kidlitosphere
News for #kidlit bloggers + authors: The #KidLitCon19 organizers report: Our Reserved Room Block is Almost Full! ow.ly/NmP730nmbiV | #KidLitCon is March 22-23, sure to be an amazing opportunity for learning + meeting kindred spirits
Get up to speed on various #kidlit tidbits at Fusenews: All the news that’s fit to fuse — @fuseeight ow.ly/ABYU30nlUmm @MarlaFrazee #UnfortunateEvents, #EdwardGorey + more
And even more #kidlit news today in Morning Notes: Legends of Greemulax Edition — @100scopenotes ow.ly/Y6Fd30nlUvA #BACA #Censorship + #BooksOnFilm
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
#MiddleGrade Trends & the Most Anticipated #KidLit Books of 2019: @Books_Between ow.ly/6M2g30nkjFJ | #GraphicNovels, memoirs, #ownvoices + lots more
‘They Own the System’: @amazon Rewrites Book Industry by Marching Into #Publishing - @JeffreyT1 @WSJ ow.ly/TBkm30nm27Z @AmazonKindle #reading
Parenting + Play
Strong blog post: Our Children’s #Busyness is not a badge of Honour – and why we need to change it! "Why have we taken something so beneficial (#FreePlay) away?" ow.ly/lHHp30nkjc6 via @LetGrowOrg #Parenting
#CES2019 full of"Family tech" gadgets meant to appeal to parental anxiety, but experts like @STurkle question whether #AI toys and monitors are a good idea ow.ly/KcxC30nj02U #parenting #ScreenTime
By mollycoddling our children, we're fuelling
#MentalIllness in #teens | @JonHaidt + @PamelaParesky @guardian ow.ly/jwdu30nifY6 #AntiFragility #parenting #MentalHealth
Schools and Libraries
Rethinking “Just Right”: #Reader and Text Variables that Impact #ReadingComprehension by @JSerravallo @nerdybookclub ow.ly/uvE630nifUR | Just as we are different readers in each book we pick up, so too are our #students
Academic #Innovation: The Obligation for Universities to Evolve - ow.ly/tXwC30nlUOv @emilyjlevine + @mzrascoff @EducationNext | #HigherEd #AI #adaptation
New York City offers some unpleasant truths about #SchoolImprovement ow.ly/SfEt30nigoa @valeriestrauss @washingtonpost | "To think that seriously low-performing schools can be turned around in a few years with an infusion of money — even a big one — is wishful thinking"
What should
#educational improvement funders fund? Projects that stick close to the #classroom + that explore which content is most effective for kids to #learn + how to #teach it says @DTWillingham ow.ly/s5Lg30nj0mu
Defining #PersonalizedLearning and #BlendedLearning: Is There a Difference? Yes, says Julia Freeland Fisher @ChristensenInst ow.ly/cB9p30nlVhj #education
Self Development + Personal Growth
All #Educators Need to Keep #Learning - "if we are railing against systems ... then it is incumbent upon us all, to keep #reading, exploring, discussing, problem-finding, + problem-solving" ow.ly/XeSL30nlbRC @mssackstein
Study Identifies The Most Effective Mental Strategies That People Use To Get Through Aversive Challenges – @Psych_Writer ow.ly/YlPE30njtNh #MentalHealth #SelfControl #Motivation
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