Links I Shared on Twitter this Week: September 20: Helicopter Parenting, Giftedness, and Read Alouds in the Classroom
September 20, 2019
Here are highlights from the links that I shared on Twitter this week @JensBookPage. Topics this week include #BookAwards, #BookLists, #CognitiveScience, #Giftedness, #KnowledgeGap, #MentalHealth, #neurodiversity, #ReadAloud, #ScreenTime, #teaching, #VideoGames, friendship, libraries, and parenting.
Top Tweet of the Week
Want better readers? Spend less time #teaching kids to find the main idea, #KnowledgeGap author @natwexler argues ow.ly/sQ8730pyTQc | #CognitiveScience #BackgroundKnowledge #AchievementGap
Book Lists + Awards
The @nationalbook Award Longlist for Young People’s Literature, shared by @tashrow ow.ly/70br30pyqyH #kidlit #YA
10 Books for Readers Who Love The Baby-Sitters Club, a #BookList from @momandkiddo ow.ly/aGKX30pwWLj #BSC #MiddleGradeFiction
#Neurodiversity in Middle Grade Books | #BookList featuring viewpoint characters w/ dyslexia, ADHD, sensory disorders, anxiety + more @momandkiddo
Growing Bookworms
Why Do Some People Love Reading? Nice piece by @jpinsk in @TheAtlantic| Model reading for your kids as "a private pleasure-delivery system" ow.ly/DoXC30pzqFm via @DTWillingham #JoyOfReading
On the joys of implementing a #PictureBook #bookaday #ReadAloud in Middle School – @heisereads @ChoiceLiteracy ow.ly/2Qbs30pwSFg #ClassroomBookADay
Parenting, Screen Time + Play
Keeping Tabs on Your Kids: The Latest Parental Controls From Apple, Google and Amazon - @juliejargon @WSJ ow.ly/lJfJ30pyTBE #parenting #ScreenTime
Tips on not being a Helicopter Mom from @HonorsGradU ow.ly/W7hX30pyqy7 #Parenting #Resilience #Independence
When You Think Your Child’s Teacher Is a Bad Fit, when to act vs. when you should step back + stop helicoptering - @WSJ ow.ly/GL0O30pyqiP #parenting
Research and Behavior
The Evolutionary Benefit of #Friendship. Friends made us smarter + gave us more potential, says @farnamstreet ow.ly/5qLW30pyqMW #EvolutionaryBiology
How To Cope Under Pressure, According To Psychology – @EmmaELYoung @ResearchDigest ow.ly/G1yc30pyqFw #StressMindsets #MentalHealth
When False Claims Are Repeated, We Start To Believe They Are True — Here’s How Behaving Like A Fact-Checker Can Help – @mattbwarren @ResearchDigest ow.ly/X29M30pwWJU | Thinking about whether things are true or not when you first hear them helps later
Americans Don’t Fully Trust Many Who Hold Positions of Power and Responsibility | New @pewresearch survey finds K-12 #SchoolPrincipals, cops + military at the top, congress + tech leaders at the bottom re: trust https://t.co/uAvOTnvgtk?amp=1
Schools and Libraries
New teaching tool in history class: ‘Assassin’s Creed’ #VideoGame – @gcacho @EastBayTimes ow.ly/vBB730pyTHZ | Color me skeptical. Note results showed students taught "old school" way learned better
10 Things the Movie #ThePublic Got Right About #Libraries – @literacious ow.ly/eFwG30pwWNg | Yes, people wait outside for the library to open
A Reminder from @jasonrileywsj, citing Chester Finn, that Not All #GiftedChildren Are From Affluent Families ow.ly/MXvZ30pyTDK | #SchoolReform #AP #CollegeBoard
4 Poll Results That'll Shape the 2020 Election #EdPolicy Debates. What struck me: parents, esp. nonwhite parents, + teachers support stricter school discipline, even as CA is legislating the opposite @EducationNext https://t.co/zuRxhzJAE1?amp=1
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