Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
Remote Learning Guidance from State Education Agencies
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Special note: Barb’s daughter Rosie is a physician on the front lines of battling COVID-19. She asks: “Please donate any PPE (gowns, masks of any kind, or eye protection) that you might have to your local hospitals—it would mean a lot to us.” Remote Learning Guidance from State Education Agen …
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Explaining Postmodernism
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! We thought last week was big with 26,000 new Learning How to Learners. But this week is even bigger—40,852 new fellow students! Welcome to our vibrant learning community, approaching 3 million total registered students on all platforms. If you are trying to grapple with career change or ups …
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Eat Fat, Get Thin
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A new record of brand new Learning How to Learners this week—26,000 learners have joined since last week. Welcome to our vibrant community, approaching 3 million total registered students on all platforms. If you are wrangling children or teens at home, don’t forget our companion course, Lea …
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Instant Pot
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! This week, we’re going to shift to a topic many people are now having to address as social distancing comes into play—how to cook and eat healthily. Let’s start out with a gizmo you might find useful in your cooking at home, and then move on to helpful ideas for handling home, work, and lear …
More >Cheery Saturday Greetings—Special Pandemic Edition
Cheery Saturday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Tips for Moving Your Classes Online We realize that, due to the rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic, many teachers are working this weekend to move their courses online. If you are one of those teachers, here is a compendium of general information that might prove helpful for you. Li …
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How We Learn
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now, by Stanislas Dehaene. This is the best book around, hands down, on how the brain learns. Part of the brilliance of Dehaene’s book is that he breaks everything down into easy-to-understand insights that all …
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Explicit & Direct Instruction: An Evidence-Informed Guide for Teachers
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Explicit & Direct Instruction: An Evidence-Informed Guide for Teachers, Edited by Tom Boxer, Series Editor Tom Bennett. This wonderful short book lays out everything you need to know about Direct Instruction, a precise way of teaching that research has shown to be one of …
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The Longevity Diet
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! (Some of you may have experienced problems with direct links to the books. That should be fixed now―if you still experience problems, please let us know.)[Hat tip: Campbell.] Book of the Week The Longevity Diet, by Valter Longo. This book provides an intriguing set of hypotheses about how to …
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Teach Like a Champion
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! This week, we’ll focus on K12, especially math. Next week, it’s back to our usual broad-ranging programming. Book of the Month Teach Like a Champion 2.0: 62 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College, by Doug Lemov, Joaquin Hernandez, and Jennifer Kim. It’s no wonder Lemov’s book has …
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy. It’s all too easy, in reading books on history, to focus on the areas of the world that currently have large populations. Russia, for example, overshadows Ukraine by more than a factor of three, population-wise (145 …
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