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Educator’s Notebook #249 (August 19, 2018)

    • New York Times
    • 08/11/18

    “Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer companion in the future, and she described the upside to me. It’s not that the robot she’d imagined, a vastly more sophisticated Siri, was so inspiring. It’s that she’d already found people to be so disappointing. And now, for the first time, she explained me, people have options. Back then I thought her comments seemed prescient. Now I find them timely.”

    • ASCD
    • 08/01/18

    We make countless choices to change how we interact with our job. Each of these choices influences how we feel about teaching. Psychologists call these choices job crafting. Job crafting, say psychologists Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane E. Dutton, is the actions employees take to redesign their work in order to foster engagement, satisfaction, resilience, and thriving. This means being intentional about how we engage with the tasks, people, and purpose that compose our careers.”

ADOLESCENCE

ATHLETICS

CHARACTER

EARLY CHILDHOOD

    • New York Times
    • 08/18/18

    “Children who help more at home feel a larger sense of obligation and connectedness to their parents, and that connection helps them weather life’s stressful moments — in other words, it helps them be happier.”

HIGHER ED

HUMANITIES

LEADERSHIP

LEARNING SCIENCE

PD

READING/WRITING

SOCIAL MEDIA

TECH

VISUAL DESIGN

WORKPLACE

Z-OTHER

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Peter Nilsson

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