Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: August 2: Attendance Awards, Rereading, Happiness + Birthday Books
August 02, 2019
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookLists, #GraphicNovels, #HigherEd, #JoyOfReading, #KidLitCon, #Math, #NoSummerSlide, #Play, #ReadAloud, #ReReading, #ViewpointDiversity, #VocationalEd, parenting, reading, and writing.
Top Tweet of the Week
Why You Should Put Down Your Phone And Say Hello To A Stranger. Even brief eye contact increases people's sense of inclusion + belonging + thus > #happiness. ow.ly/7VYi30pe4F1 @NicolausWriting @NPR
Book Lists
9 Books to Celebrate #NationalMilkChocolateDay - Delicious #BookList from @literacious ow.ly/SoBm30pezWE | I kind of want to watch the original #WillyWonka movie now
A Roundup of #PictureBooks for a Hot Summer Day ow.ly/W6BM30pe7ON | #BookList from @randomlyreading
Top 30 Picks for Social Emotional Learning #PictureBooks from @thisreadingmama ow.ly/b1gg30pgfR0 | #SEL #BookLists
Diversity + Gender
You’re probably making incorrect assumptions about your opposing political party. That's a recipe for national decline if we can't work to better understand our opponents @arthurbrooks @washingtonpost ow.ly/8jTC30pe4wa #ViewpointDiversity
UC imposes political litmus test on faculty | In the name of #diversity test would make the overwhelmingly liberal UC faculty even less ideologically diverse says @DanCALmatters ow.ly/jU2Z30pezp2 #IdeologicalDiversity #ViewpointDiversity #HigherEd
Events, Programs + Research
Announcing #KidLitCon 2020 in Ann Arbor, MI! – @KidLitCon @alibrarymama ow.ly/8DQJ30pfIhZ | The theme of this year's conference for #KidLit bloggers + authors is "Seeing Clearly" [2020 KidLitCon logo designed by Sarah Stevenson and Heather Pacheco.]
Growing Bookworms
Great stuff on the Benefits ( #JoyOfReading + #literacy skills) for kids of #Rereading this week @Books_Between + conversation w/ @dataquilter from @Scholastic https://t.co/S8fH6bUXPm
Love this! #Reading specialist + #SchoolLibrarian create after-school workshop for #GraphicNovel geeks to read, celebrate + create GNs ow.ly/XqRg30pe4eL | @fitzbtwnshelves + @megangrant87 @nerdybookclub
The Power Of 'Just #Reading' A Good Novel | ow.ly/HhIl30pfaa8 Teachers "might want to try spending less time on “skills” and more on just plunging into a good, long story", boosting #ReadingComprehension + #JoyOfReading | @natwexler @Forbes
#NoSummerSlide Week 9 @TheReadingTub – Let’s Go to the Movies ow.ly/Z2vp30peA3v | I like the Book or Movie Competition idea to include #literacy
Classroom Birthday Book Basket Idea from @growingbbb : Fill a Basket w/ Birthday-Themed #PictureBooks + let birthday child select a #ReadAloud https://t.co/RhjjK0pJ23
HigherEd
Depth Over Breadth: The value of #Vocational Education, including in-depth study, in U.S. #HighSchools @EducationNext ow.ly/YltR30pfwcV #WorkforcePrep #HigherEd
Sigh. College Financial-Aid Tactic / Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Away Legal Guardianship of Their Teens so Kids Get Need-Based Aid - @dougbelkin @WSJ ow.ly/wap030pfdIV #HigherEd
Follow-Up: The College #FinancialAid Guardianship Loophole and the Woman Who Thought It Up ow.ly/v3eX30pghpd @dougbelkin @WSJ #HigherEd
On Reading, Writing, Blogging, and Publishing
Thoughts on children's literature that refers to children's literature (vs. prior references more to classic adult literature) - Clémentine Beauvais @AwfullyBigBlog ow.ly/4XUE30peA4w #kidlit
Why Teachers Should Write, reflectively + for an audience, w/ tips for getting started - @JustinMinkel @EdWeekTeacher ow.ly/uJ3630pggvf | #writing #teaching
Why #Writing Sucks and We Need to Talk About It | @pernilleripp on the need to be direct about issues students have w/ writing ow.ly/nTSW30pdDPS | #WritingIdentity #JoyOfLearning
Parenting + Play
Author #JohnMarsden on the 'toxic' #parenting pandemic: 'By limiting children’s exposure to danger ... we are limiting their ability to mature, develop resilience + independence" @Celina_Ribeiro_ @guardian ow.ly/I8GV30pf9Vo via @gail_gauthier
#FacialRecognition Tech Comes to Schools + Summer Camps - ow.ly/yxD330pggfo @juliejargon @WSJ | As a parent, I intend to steer clear of this for as long as possible, though it's probably inevitable
Schools and Libraries
How Attendance Awards (at least for older kids) Backfire | @UKnowHGSE @leahjshafer ow.ly/35rL30pezhG | Awards intended to motivate can do the opposite | #ExtrinsicMotivation
#EducationPolicy Helped These States Beat the Socioeconomic Curve. @MichaelPetrilli @EducationNext https://t.co/Ao3ZeRjP6r posits that national trends in test scores are driven mostly by economics, but some states transcend that via policies
How Might We Remove the “Floaties” & Give Students “Goggles” Instead? This is, how can #teachers set conditions for students to push themselves forward? #TeacherMom @HonorsGradU ow.ly/gheU30pg6Py
STEM
Using #Play to Teach #Math | ow.ly/mzg030pezYy | @MatthewOldridge @edutopia via @drdouggreen | #Flow #GuidedPlay #STEM
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