Links for Teachers

 
The Best Overall Writing Resource on the Web
 
 
 
Crtical Thinking & Problem Solving Tools
Developing Imagination for older kids
 
Teacher Jokes 
Getting Rid of Grades
 
Facebook's War on Free Will
 
Happy Halloween
 
Learning Styles Myth
How Children Learn To Read
How I Read
Vocabulary Wheel

How baby boomers screwed their kids — and created millennial impatience

www.salon.com/2014/01/04/how_baby_boomers_screwed_their_kids_%E2%80%94_and_created_millennial_impatience/

How Creativity Works--And How To Harness Its Power
www.fastcompany.com/3022448/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/how-creativity-works-and-how-to-harness-its-power

What’s Wrong With Millennials? My Psychotherapy Clients Can’t Fend for Themselves   

 www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2013/12/millennial_narcissism_helicopter_parents_are_college_students_bigger_problem.html

Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming

How Your Memory Works (and Three Ways to Improve It)

lifehacker.com/how-your-memory-works-and-three-ways-to-improve-it-1370487727

A Refreshingly Simple Guide To Twitter For Teachers

www.edudemic.com/refreshingly-simple-guide-twitter-teachers/

17 Ways To Find Good Books To Read

www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/17-ways-find-good-books-read.html

Hack Your Mind: 23 Tricks to Learn Anything Better

greatist.com/happiness/hack-your-mind-learn-anything-better

Why Generation Y Yuppies are Unhappy (Penner's Note: What about Generation X? Why are we not mentioned in the article?)

www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/generation-y-unhappy_b_3930620.html

Malcolm Cowley on the Four Stages of Writing: Lessons from the First Five Years of The Paris Review

www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/04/05/malcolm-cowley-four-stages-of-writing-paris-review/

Facebook Home Could Change Our Brains

www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9975118/Facebook-Home-could-change-our-brains.html

The Touch-Screen Generation

m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/the-touch-screen-generation/309250/

Educational Technology & Mobile Learning

www.educatorstechnology.com/

iPad information for Education

appsineducation.blogspot.ca/p/english-ipad-apps.html

Apps in Education

appsineducation.blogspot.ca/p/english-ipad-apps.html

Guide to Four Complex Learning Theories

edudemic.com/2012/12/a-simple-guide-to-4-complex-learning-theories/

The Whole World, Opened Up

therumpus.net/2012/10/the-whole-world-opened-up/

Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 84, Philip Roth

www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2957/the-art-of-fiction-no-84-philip-roth

Pink Floyd: Journey to the Dark Side

www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pink-floyd-journey-to-the-dark-side-20111013

Write for Dropbox lets you create notes on your iPhone not only quickly, but beautifully

www.imore.com/write-dropbox-lets-you-create-notes-your-iphone-not-only-quickly-beautifully

10 Alternatives to PowerPoint

www.prdaily.com/Main/Articles/14145.aspx#

Is the novel beyond saving?

www.salon.com/2013/01/14/is_the_novel_beyond_saving/?utm_source=scribol.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com

PDFs

Chaucer and Twitter.docx (61,4 kB)
Lecture on The Metamorphosis.docx (50,4 kB)
Triumph of Triviality.pdf (466,3 kB)
Why Books are Taught.pdf (102 kB)