Resources from the people I follow on Twitter, professional emails, and my own surfing
2024 Student Safety Report = Incidents of student suicide and self harm are on the rise. @Gaggle_K12
Student Safety Issues / Read Entire Book / Anxious Generation Lessons / Ethical AI in Class / Fish Oil Bad? / More Outdoor Time / 11/20/2024
November 20th, 2024Space Savvy: Ingenious Home Office Designs for Compact Living by Emily Graham
November 6th, 2024Space Savvy: Ingenious Home Office Designs for Compact Living by Emily Graham
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood I Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
October 30th, 2024
The Anxious Generation: Hoe the Great rewiring of Childhood I Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt warns of the harm done to children who live in a phone-based world with limited opportunity to play and connect with the real world. There is serious research to support banning phones in schools and keeping kids off of social media until they turn 16. This could well be the most important book I have summarized out of well over 200. Every principal, teacher, and parent needs to read it.
Beyond Books: Fun-Fueled Learning Techniques for Kids by Emily Graham
October 14th, 2024
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Beyond Books: Fun-Fueled Learning Techniques for Kids by Emily Graham
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell
October 7th, 2024
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell features a number of notable stories where people were unable to correctly determine the intention of strangers. We default to truth when talking to strangers, which makes us prone to misjudgment. The opposite approach of always being skeptical of strangers, however, seems to be less productive.
