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!
Churchill & Son
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Churchill & Son, by Josh Ireland. Reaching the end of a fantastic book like Churchill & Son is bittersweet. There’s a feeling of satisfaction with the closure, but that satisfaction is mixed with the sad knowledge that you will not be able to return and spend more ti …
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Teach for Attention!
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Teach for Attention! A Tool Belt of Strategies for Engaging Students with Attention Challenges, by Ezra Werb. This brief, easy-to-read book provides “from the trenches” teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenge …
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The Tiger
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant. This is one of those books that’s hard to put down, as the story unfolds of a tiger with a lethal grudge against a particular human—a grudge that widened to encompass every human the tiger encountered. Joh …
More >Uncommon Sense Teaching!
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Exciting announcement! We appreciate all your support of our work over the years! As a thank you, we are planning a very special event—where we could talk with you all about our new book Uncommon Sense Teaching, and hear some of your thoughts and questions once you get your copy and start rea …
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The Cattle Kingdom
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Cattle Kingdom: The Hidden History of the Cowboy West, by Christopher Knowlton. What an eye-popping read! Many North Americans grow up familiar with cowboys, cattle barons, and the battle of barbed wire fences in the Western US, along with haute cuisine (at least as haute …
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The Book of Why
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, by computer scientist and philosopher Judea Pearl. For anyone with the slightest interest in statistics, mathematics, or figuring out whether the public is being duped by yet another “solidly researched” fad, this book is …
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Heroes & Hormones
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Heroes & Hormones: From Screen Slave to Superhero, by Mali Alcobi. Mali is an expert in work-life balance who helps both employees and organizations develop systems that help people lead productive, yet happy lives. Mali speaks around the world on this topic—which is h …
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Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math while Looking Over Your Shoulder
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Out on Good Behavior: Teaching Math while Looking Over Your Shoulder, by Barry Garelick. We greatly enjoyed and got a lot out of this brief, sardonic memoir of an outstanding math teacher in an era when teaching math in public schools is becoming increasingly divorced from wh …
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You Never Forget Your First
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe. If you’re a history buff, as we are, you will get a lot out of Coe’s seemingly lighthearted and oft-times irreverent look at George Washington. We’ve long wished for a fairly dispassionate book ab …
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Kindred
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art, by Rebecca Wragg Sykes. We have to admit, like many a fellow Homo sapiens, we’re enamored of Neanderthals. So we were very excited to get our hands on this book. And indeed, Kindred did a great job of pointing out not only the s …
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