Julius Lewis

Spectator.

[Natalie Wexler @natwexler]

A recent NYT op-ed argued that writing doesn't advance thinking.

That argument is misleading, contrary to the evidence--and to the extent it implies that it's OK for students to let AI write for them, dangerous.

More in my new post on Minding the Gap:

https://t.co/4MpvOiX9eq

[Ayesha Ai @AiWithAyesha]

🚨 TEACHERS, STOP CREATING CLASSROOM VISUALS FROM SCRATCH.

ChatGPT can turn almost any lesson idea into engaging visuals in seconds.

These 10 prompts can create flashcards, posters, visual explanations, activities & more 👇

[Amelia Brooks @Amelia_With_Ai]

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇

1. https://t.co/LlgUARH1yw — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. https://t.co/hfR2HrS6SD — See every plane currently in the sky
3. https://t.co/9EBwFwsPOO — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. https://t.co/VKBjQDW4nE — Live map of winds and storms
5. https://t.co/X5LJX5fGv2 — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. https://t.co/w6U0ipPEZs — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. https://t.co/bmyBrIagZ2 — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. https://t.co/fO1Bq3NhuD — Watch forests disappear from space
9. https://t.co/q8iKZAULWW — The world's statistics, second by second
10. https://t.co/GQ4DmcB7iy — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. https://t.co/gSlDvMpHzq — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. https://t.co/ABs0IM5H9N — Maps from centuries ago
13. https://t.co/fm9RurUa0b — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. https://t.co/WbdOOnnY9Q — World map drawn by volunteers
15. https://t.co/O6HdmI0OH8 — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. https://t.co/Tz0vhDypgb — Virtual walks through cities
17. https://t.co/6zrgtbTYQy — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. https://t.co/g6jkBELLbK — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. https://t.co/IcbgotK5Nt — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. https://t.co/DNUMbo5c1a — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. https://t.co/6yvQMzfPEY — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. https://t.co/OWD3e8Q7WM — Real sky map in your browser
23. https://t.co/rFrc4vk64M — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. https://t.co/YUBeql388Y — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. https://t.co/9T9XgzI4bU — Visual articles told through data
26. https://t.co/wKSs7rxhFv — The state of the world with real data
27. https://t.co/8iGhnlPq5X — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. https://t.co/klKOkvayG8 — Visualizing complex data
29. https://t.co/VhE26XkOFL — World Bank's open data
30. https://t.co/1h73jyW3tW — Turkey's official statistics database
31. https://t.co/ds7UgpQSwh — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. https://t.co/4qysVBLrd0 — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. https://t.co/ByPLLdJsyR — Record of every book in the world
34. https://t.co/KO7ZleCqua — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. https://t.co/ToPVpT6Q4G — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. https://t.co/EdOtWQU1Qy — America's digital library collection
37. https://t.co/oEh7Jk9MiS — Tour museums from home
38. https://t.co/3yUuUlYS6K — Download artworks in high resolution
39. https://t.co/QsJi4JEA30 — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. https://t.co/ygNX1x5YQk — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. https://t.co/VAekuOD1uC — Free archive of culture and education
42. https://t.co/rFroIxF0t2 — Met Museum's open collection
43. https://t.co/TFRDsasCQz — Family tree of music genres
44. https://t.co/9gZX29BxuQ — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. https://t.co/qOTBlRv466 — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. https://t.co/8RLfe8WSdn — Random knowledge well
47. https://t.co/1fsejag2Bz — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. https://t.co/AjQ2CoDF1I — Live stream of science news
49. https://t.co/0s8ss92npM — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. https://t.co/G0rlTlIVs0 — Visualize data with live code

Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖

Follow @Amelia_With_Ai for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A group of seventh graders were asked to write for fifteen minutes about a value that mattered to them, anything they chose, family, friends, music, sports. That one assignment, done twice over two weeks, closed an academic performance gap by 40 percent.

Geoffrey Cohen and Julio Garcia, then at Yale, published the study in Science in 2006. The students picked a value, wrote a short essay about why it mattered to them, and went straight back to class. The teachers did not know which students had done the exercise and which had done a control task. By the end of the semester, students whose performance had been affected by the weight of negative expectations about their group had raised their grades, and the gap between them and their peers had shrunk by nearly half.

A two-year follow-up, published in Science again in 2009, found the effect held. The students who had written about their values raised their grade point averages by 0.24 points on average over two years. For those who had been struggling the most, the gain was 0.41 points, and their rate of being held back or placed in a lower track dropped from 18 percent to 5 percent.

The exercise took fifteen minutes. It cost nothing. The students were not told it was an affirmation. They were told to write about something that mattered to them, and the act of connecting to that value changed how they performed for years.

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin later scaled the experiment across eleven middle schools in an entire district and found the same pattern. The mechanism, according to Cohen, is that the writing protects a person's sense of who they are, so that outside pressure does not crush it. You remind yourself what you are made of, and the reminder holds. https://t.co/nMqDXYh20P

[Kim Chong @HeyKimChong]

A man who studied happy people for 40 years told me the 8 things that decide your quality of life.

1. The distance between your house and your job.

[Jamie Clark @XpatEducator]

CHECK FOR STUDENT UNDERSTANDING! The latest edition of ⚗️ DistillED unpacks Rosenshine’s 6th Principle of Instruction: Check for Student Understanding.

ROSENSHINE: “The more effective teachers frequently checked to see if all the students were learning the new material… In contrast, the less effective teachers simply asked, ‘Are there any questions?”

This post includes a free NEW guide and handy planning resource! Download them here:

https://t.co/zMLxATtOOb

[Julius Lewis @atlantawarrior]

@letsquitteachin You’re speaking my language; you can take a forklift into the weigh room to lift the weights, but there will be no muscle growth: that’s letting kids use AI for composition…..

[The Sigma Mindset @thesigmamindset]

This short video will make you RETHINK your entire life ‼️‼️

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

You need 3 daily wins:

[Julius Lewis @atlantawarrior]

@MarcusLuther6 You keep it moving and win them over time ….like a river to the Grand Canyon with love and support…and sometimes you appreciate the outliers, the bold, and the kids who want to refuse assimilation on day one. This too shall pass.

[Book Briefs @BookBriefsHQ]

📘 Thinking, Fast and Slow
✍️ Daniel Kahneman
🔍 How our dual-thinking minds shape judgment, biases, and decision‑making.
#BookSummary

[The Financian @TheFinancian_]

Your attention span is broken.

99% of people can't focus because their brains are fried.

Stanford Professor Andrew Huberman discovered a 10-minute method to rewire your brain in one session.

Here's exactly how to reclaim your focus: 🧵

[SCC English @sccenglish]

‘There is nobody and nothing that can think on your behalf.’

@mrkocnnll in today’s Irish Times, on the disastrous effects of AI on thinking, echoing John Warner’s central principle in ‘More Than Words’ -

https://t.co/EkrQcbxUat

[Growth Labs @growthhub_]

Bookmark it.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

12 Must-Read Nonfiction Book’s Visual Summary:

1) Atomic Habits by James Clear

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

If you're in your 20s and 30s, read this:

9 Powerful Facts Of Life:

1. Don't be. A perfectionist

[Dylan Wiliam @dylanwiliam]

Just realized that the text of my second inaugural lecture (at the Institute of Education, 2007)—Assessment for Learning: Why, what and how—is no longer being sold by UCL Press, so the copyright reverts to me, and I can make it open access, so here it is: https://t.co/nLpRPEoFsM.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

HOLY SHIT! Did you see the end of @60Minutes tonight?