Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningPlay buttonCities Intelligent - rather than smart - cities can address the roots of urban challengestheconversation.com - Sylvie Albert The term “smart city” has gained in popularity, but the label still conjures the use the technologies to solve operational problems. Rather, cities …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Standardisation broke education. Here's how we can fix our schoolsWired UK - Ken Robinson We are all born with fathomless capacities, but what we make of them has everything to do with education. One role of education is to help people …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Mind What is cognitive behavioral therapy and how does it work?NBC News - By Sarah DiGiulioCBT aims to uncover unhelpful or problematic ways of thinking in order to change unwanted or unhealthy behaviors. There’s no one-size-fits-all fix to treating insomnia, depression, anxiety, drug addiction,
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningColumbia University For Kids With Anxiety, Parents Learn To Let Them Face Their FearsNPR - Angus ChenThe first time Jessica Calise can remember her 9-year-old son Joseph's anxiety spiking was about a year ago, when he had to perform at a school concert. He said his stomach hurt and he might throw up.
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningEmpathy The End Of EmpathyNPR - Hanna RosinMilitia leader Ammon Bundy, famous for leading an armed standoff in Oregon, had a tender moment in November of last year. He recorded a Facebook post saying that perhaps President Trump's characterization
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning A Math Teacher's Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He MentoredNPR - Joe PalcaGeorge Berzsenyi is a retired math professor living in Milwaukee County. Most people have never heard of him. But Berzsenyi has had a remarkable impact on American science and mathematics. He has mentored
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningHigh School What If The Future Of Work Starts With High School?Forbes - Heather E. McGowanNearly 100% of the jobs created during the economic recovery went to workers with postsecondary education training. That training really begins in high school. The work of the future will require a robust
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning In An Increasingly Polarized America, Is It Possible To Be Civil On Social Media?NPR - Jasmine GarsdTyler and Larry have never met. Larry is a conservative living on the East Coast. Tyler is a liberal in Indiana. If for some reason they crossed paths on the street, they wouldn't recognize each other.
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Do You Speak My Language? You ShouldThe New York Times - By BÉNÉDICTE DE MONTLAURIn January, the Modern Language Association made an astonishing announcement in The Chronicle of Higher Education: From 2013 to 2016, colleges across the United States cut 651 foreign language programs.
Yo Azamaadded this to For Mind The Most Powerful Activist in America Is DyingPOLITICO - By ARTHUR ALLENAdy Barkan has a terminal illness and can barely speak. That hasn't stopped him from using his voice—and his ailing body—to fight for a progressive agenda. The last few times Ady Barkan got arrested in
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning 13 things mentally strong people won’t doLadders - Travis Bradberry It’s fascinating how mentally strong people set themselves apart from the crowd. Where others see impenetrable barriers, they see challenges to …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning College Completion Rates Are Up, But The Numbers Will Still Surprise YouNPR - Elissa NadwornyGo to college, we tell students. It's a ticket out of poverty; a place to grow and expand; a gateway to a good job. Or perhaps a better job. But just going to college doesn't mean you'll finish. To unlock
Yo Azamaadded this to For Body Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.The New York Times - By MATT RICHTELExcerpted from “An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System,” published on Tuesday by William Morrow. [Like the Science Times page on Facebook. | Sign up for the Science Times
Yo Azamaadded this to Interests Commentary: 4 Ways To Reduce Plastics And Other Single-Use Disposables In Your KitchenNPR - Kristen HartkeThe 40 days of Lent, which began last week, are a time when many Christians around the world decide to voluntarily give up bad habits or luxuries. This year, it might be time we all consider how to give
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningPlay button This Memphis teacher’s favorite student didn’t stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. She taught him a powerful lesson.chalkbeat.org - By Caroline Bauman When one of Daniel Warner’s favorite students refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, he could feel the tension in himself rising. It was …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo In education, the old standards worked better than the newajc.com - John Rosemond Fact: The teacher-pupil ratio has little to do with student achievement, as demonstrated in the 1950s when elementary classrooms were bursting at the …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Gutting US foreign language education will cost us for generationsCNN - By Ruth Ben-Ghiat(CNN) — Monolingualism (the ability to speak only one language) may sound to some like a disease, and it's certainly a condition that's spreading throughout American higher education. According to the
Yo Azamaadded this to For Body Postural Restoration: The Simple Exercise That Can Combat Stress And Poor SleepEsquireWatch fitness expert Luke Worthington explain how a 10 minute routine can improve your mental and physical health After years playing professional rugby, Third Space trainer and Esquire fitness columnist
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning 'We can't let education fall victim to edtech'tes.com - By Kester Brewin Some two decades ago, I went for a job and, when asked if I needed any special equipment for my interview lesson, I asked if I might have an overhead …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Down With Homework, Say U.S. School DistrictsThe Wall Street Journal. - Tawnell D. HobbsMore districts ban or stop grading it amid complaints of overload, but some parents and teachers aren’t on board School districts across the country are banning homework, forbidding it on certain days
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningPlay button Lesson plan: Elevate student voice by teaching the power of listening | Lesson Plan | PBS NewsHour Extrapbs.org Lesson Plans Lesson plan: Elevate student voice by teaching the power of listening This Thanksgiving holiday, teach students the importance of …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Body How to Actually Stop Slouching All the Time - VICEVICE - K. Aleisha FettersThese core strengthening moves will go a long way towards fixing your bad posture. Right now, in all likelihood, you're hunched over a laptop, or maybe you're sitting on the train, your head tilted down
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningPlay button This Indianapolis teacher thought he could change the world — until the first day of schoolchalkbeat.org - By Shaina Cavazos During Chris Elliott’s first year of teaching, he thought he was going to change the world. Actually, he admitted, those first few weeks were a …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Body This Is What Happens to Your Body if You Don't Eat For Three Days - VICEVICE - Grant StoddardI took a look at the good, bad, and smelly effects a 72-hour fast has on the body. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. At least that’s what many of us were brought up to believe. But a growing
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Essential Design Thinking Videos and Methodsinteraction-design.org The following resources are recommended in order to assist you to better understand Design Thinking. These resources, videos, and tools should be …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning We followed 15 of America's teachers on a single day. This is what we learnedUSA TODAYA teacher whose income was so low, her child qualified for reduced-price lunch. A teacher whose school was so short on staff, he had to fill a shift as a security guard. A teacher who made meals for other
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and Learning Because of Youbecauseofyou.org Encouragement Good Vibes Do you make a point to share encouraging words with others, even if you think they don't need it? Yes Nicely done! Sometimes …
Yo Azamaadded this to For Teaching and LearningPlay button Drawing can help you think and focus better — even if you're not good at itMother Nature Network - Starre Vartan Do you ever draw? Most of us don't, and the reason we usually leave drawing to the artists is because we're not very good at it. Who wants to do …
