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Standing Desks Are Coming To Schools, To Cure Obesity And Increase Attention Spans
Stand up desks In schools via @FastCompany schools http://t.co/tzhSbQM766 #bpschat #edchat
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Take your place among the trailblazing leaders who
Take your place among the trailblazing leaders who are revolutionizing education. https://t.co/Pi6Krlkohp
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Can Text Messages and Interventions Nudge Students Through School? | MindShift | KQED News
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GIF YouTube | Make Animated GIFs from Youtube
Great site to easily crete GIFs
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Drop Everything and Sail the World
From Tom Vander Ark “It’s time to expand your thinking about what you can accomplish and, in doing so, the life lessons you will model and create for your children.”
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How Successful People Handle Stress
How successful people mentally prepare for change
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Resources on Blogs as Digital Portfolios
Good resources on digital portfolios from George Couros
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Watch how one principal uses “The Power of Nice” to train his frontline staff: http://t.co/buufpYKCvL #edadmin #cpchat #edleaders #edchat
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Using Google Apps in a Math Classroom
Some best practices for using Google Apps in the math classroom.
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How Twitter Users Can Generate Better Ideas |
From MIT’s Sloane Review – “New research suggests that employees with a diverse Twitter network — one that exposes them to people and ideas they don’t already know — tend to generate better ideas.”
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More great thoughts on meaningful Professional Development
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Enter “Designing Your Life,” a new and wildly popular course for Stanford juniors and seniors that is grounded in design thinking concepts and techniques. The course’s lessons gave him the perspective he needed to navigate decisions about life and work post graduation.
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The science of why the comment section on just about anything is so awful
From Upworthy – The comment section. It’s where angry people go to express how angry they are at whatever they’re commenting on.
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Interview with Charles Jennings – eLearning Interviews Magazine
Interesting research to consider surrounding workplace learning (professional development).
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Why the American Dream is unraveling, in 4 charts
From Market Watch – The upper-middle-class families Putnam profiles separate themselves into affluent suburbs, with separate public schools and social spheres from those of their poorer counterparts. As a result, the poorer children not only face greater hardships, but they also lack good models of what is possible. They are effectively cut off from opportunity.
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Useful Collection Of “Growth Mindset” Animations
Some good videos on Growth Mindset From Larry Ferlazzo
My Un-Learning Journey 