Reading Time: 2 minutes Do you understand how the brain learns? Learning is a self-organised process, deeply influenced by both the brain and environment. Understanding how it works could transform your teaching strategies. It totally has redefined everything I know about teaching! New research (Agamennoni & Schumacher, 2024) reveals that learning is not just about…
Listen to the interview with Jocelyn Greene: Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom Picture this: A group of students stands in front of the class taking turns speaking confidently about the content they’ve been studying. But they’re not just kids anymore; they are news anchors, talk show hosts, or curators at an art gallery….
geralt / Pixabay With the presence of peer tutors in my ELL Newcomers class (it’s almost a one-to-one ratio this year) and the vastly reduced class sizes for ELL classrooms successfully negotiated by our union (my numbers are now capped at twenty – I don’t even want to put into print how huge my…
mjimages / Pixabay Sixty-one years ago today four African-American girls were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About The Birmingham Church Bombing, Sixty-one years ago today four African-American girls were killed when their church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama. You…
antonbe / Pixabay I began posting videos on TikTok a few months ago, and have slowly also begun to upload them to my YouTube Channel. Here are a few I’ve done in the past few weeks: @larry.ferlazzo The difference between opinion & judgment #esl #teacher #teachersoftiktok #teachertok #teaching ♬ original sound – larry.ferlazzo @larry.ferlazzo Ed…
I know that, for many, blogging is still “old school.” Nevertheless, there are still a lot of us bloggers around. I’ve been doing this for eighteen years, and I still remember how thrilled I was when I discovered that there were sites like Pixabay that provided free images for use! Before that, my blog looked…
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): Explaining Change and Stability in Classroom Practice is by Larry Cuban. We do these ‘operations’ during our planning periods https://t.co/iltSck61ah — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 7,…
geralt / Pixabay At least, for now, I’m going to make this a weekly feature which will highlight additions to THE BEST NEW – & FREE – ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TOOLS THAT COULD BE USED IN THE CLASSROOM. Here are the latest: Imggen is a free text-to-image generator. Using AI to Save Time and Reduce…
There are now a zillion AI-powered sites where people can practice for job interviews, and I have several on The Best Places For Students To Write Their Resumes and The Best Places For Students To Write Their Resumes lists. Interview Warm-Up is a bit different from the rest of them. Most importantly, it’s actually…
Bill Gates is continuing his terrible track record demonstrating any kind of knowledge about how education works. After previously making ridiculous promises about the role of AI in tutoring, last night (on Oprah Winfrey’s special on Artificial Intelligence), he claimed that AI would “understand how to motivate” students. Millions of teachers, including me (who…