A weekly collection of education-related news from around the web.

On How Kids Use YouTube, And What We Can Do To Help Them

“Currently, when we ask our children about YouTube we say, “what are you doing?” or “what are you watching?” This results in an instinctive dismissal because the majority of the time, they’re watching something we don’t understand. Instead, we need to enter conversations looking to ask, “how does this video/this creator make you feel?” And, […]

On How Students Discuss Controversial Topics Online

I know students have seen or expressed controversial opinions on political and social issues on social media, and I’m not privy to the details. This makes those controversial topics hard to cover in my classroom for a number of reasons. First, we’re not all starting from the same point. In terms of what’s been posted, […]

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Every week I send out articles I encounter from around the web. Subject matter ranges from hard knowledge about teaching to research about creativity and cognitive science to stories from other industries that, by analogy, inform what we do as educators. This breadth helps us see our work in new ways.

Readers include teachers, school leaders, university overseers, conference organizers, think tank workers, startup founders, nonprofit leaders, and people who are simply interested in what’s happening in education. They say it helps them keep tabs on what matters most in the conversation surrounding schools, teaching, learning, and more.

Peter Nilsson

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