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“Who would care about me and my little life?” An early Facebook enthusiast in a 2012 interview in which M.I.T. professor Sherry Turkle asked whether the young woman was concerned about her data being misused, quoted in a May 27, 2019 talk by Turkle at her 50th Harvard reunion
“While students are making strides with their decoding skills, they must also be building the background knowledge on a wide array of topics needed to understand what they read. Instead of learning to read and then reading to learn, students can and should do both at the same time.”
Jared Myracle in Education Week, May 28, 2019, https://bit.ly/2XlDJzd
“Vocabulary is like a tiny snowball at the top of a hill. If you can guide it down the right path, it will gradually grow bigger on its own. It just takes a plan and patience.” Jared Myracle
“The outdated model of a silent classroom as a sign of learning is long gone. Instead, teachers and school leaders listen for the hum and buzz of students as they explain ideas, justify their thinking, pose questions to one another, and make decisions with classmates.” Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher in “Response: ‘To Maximize Group Work, Make It Metacognitive’” in Education Week Teacher, May 28, 2019, https://bit.ly/2JQxC2N
“Speed is often mistaken for intelligence and capacity; the fastest finishers are usually considered the smartest by their peers.” Anjali Deshpande and Shannon Guglielmo
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