Kendra 🍍

Curious & creative, INTP, Instructional Designer, voice behind @pandapalspod, co-founder of #NoVAedChat, 1/2 of @2techcoaches, & Mason Jar Enthusiast.

[Instructure @Instructure]

Update alert! 🎉 Through our partnership with @GoogleForEdu, #CanvasLMS users with Google Workspace for Education accounts have now free access to the Google Meet LTI integration to schedule and host online sessions directly in Canvas courses. Read more: https://t.co/WfmIIQn3n2

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@Eyebuydirect Accessorizing my face (& still being able to take them off!)

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

If you’ve been using @MicrosoftFlip (formerly Flip Grid), you might want to consider alternatives. #sadDay #edtech

[Flip @MicrosoftFlip]

The Flip Camera is moving to Teams for Education, we are retiring our web and mobile apps. Now, you can just click on Assignments inside Teams, and select video from the dropdown menu to send and receive video assignments with your students. Learn more on https://t.co/WLpxdbNo2M.

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@MicrosoftFlip Booo. This is such a bad move.

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@Instructure @ThisIsLacyB

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@S0uthwestAlr I’ve already DM’ed it all to y’all. The reply I got was, effectively ‘too bad, so sad’.

My priority was getting my child home to bed after a delayed flight, rather than inspecting my things in a dark parking lot, which shouldn’t have been damaged in the first place.

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

Hey @SouthwestAir I just realized y’all broke a part of my baby’s car seat on Monday on gate check (someone’s stroller got fully mangled on the same flight). How can I get this fixed?

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@SouthwestAir @Bugaboo At least they like my reply, I guess. Good grief.

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@SouthwestAir They had us sitting on a plane for an hour because of a broken seatbelt, which delayed our arrival at home and we didn’t notice they had broken our @Bugaboo carseat until the next morning. We know the crew was mishandling items since they destroyed another family’s stroller)

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@SouthwestAir Highly recommend not @SouthwestAir.

Y’all know who is great? @BreezeAirways They are lovely.

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

Oh my word. This is ridiculous. @SouthwestAir continues to get worse and worse. They’re so focused on decorating their space that they have no energy left to focus on customer care.

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

Brief but vigorous bursts of physical activity - called 'exercise snacks' - may improve longevity.

Engaging in exercise snacks, even as briefly as three to four minutes daily, can reduce overall mortality risk by 25 to 30%.

Increasing these activities to about nine minutes daily can further reduce cardiovascular-related mortality by 50% and cancer-related mortality by 40%.

Remarkably, these significant health benefits are also seen in individuals who typically don't engage in regular exercise routines.

There are two types of exercise snacks:

• Deliberate training - jumping jacks, air squats, or high knees- can be done in just a few minutes.
• VILPAs - Standing for ‘vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activities,’ they take advantage of everyday opportunities like sprinting up the stairs rather than walking, turning short walks into intensive bursts of vigorous activity, etc.

In the study I'm referencing, the focus was on VILPAs:
https://t.co/IXrzIpKHxp

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@Instructure @Canvas_by_Inst The amazing sc k-12 user group meetings. So helpful in terms of knowledge and relationships! #powerofcommunity #giveaways

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@Eyebuydirect Oooh Renee is lovely!

[Kendra 🍍 @techinteaching]

@Eyebuydirect #3 m, such a fun shape. I don’t have any ‘non-typical’ frame shapes!

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Physicians and public health experts have pointed to one culprit time and again when asked why Americans live shorter lives than peers in nations with similar resources, especially people felled by chronic diseases in the prime of life: stress.
https://t.co/QhUeEabNcl

[Dr. Rhonda Patrick @foundmyfitness]

No pharmeceutical can rival exercise when it comes to slowing the aging process - particularly the aging brain.

A large-scale trial investiated th effect of aerobic exercise (running, cycling) on cognition in the 20- to 67-year age range. Here’s what they found:

Better thinking skills as you age: Exercise helped people’s executive function - that’s your brain’s ability to manage tasks, plan, and focus.

Thicker brain cortex, regardless of age:
• Higher cognitive reserve- aiding task flexability and improvisation
• Resilience against brain aging and neurodegenerative disease
• Improved neural plasticity, essential for lifelong learning and skill acquisition
• Bolsters emotional regulation

Real-world Application: The way the workouts were implemented could be a practical recommendation for improving brain health for the general public.

Consistency is key: participants exercised about 40 minutes, four times a week for six months.

Gradually increasing effort: they started easy (55-65% max heart rate) and slowly increased their workout intensity (65%-75% max heart rate).

Monitoring progress: using heart rate monitors helped them stay in the desired exercise intensity.

Flexibility: participants could choose the exercise (running or cycling) they preferred and set their schedules.

#everydayoctober

[Harrison Schenck @FractionalList]

This picture always reminds me of a guy at my gym named Steve

I've talked about him on here before. He's 83 years old, former marine, and he's in noticeably better shape than 90% of the guys I went to high school with (I'm 36)

He lifts weights 3-5 times per week, program is compound movements and moderate weight for high reps, push pull legs

A while back I asked him what advice he'd give to young people lifting weights (so I could share it on social media 😂)

His advice: "Just start, and then never stop."

A handful of things have an outsized impact on the quality of your aging:

Particularly, how much fat you carry, how "spry" you are, and your mental acuity

All three of those are improved by a weightlifting habit

Be like Steve, and you'll only get old when you quit

[Raising Healthy Families @thriving__kids]

Praising kids effort vs ability

How you choose to praise your kids can have a big impact on how they approach challenges later in life

A study done on 5th graders highlights the difference between these two approaches:

A group of students were given an easy problem to solve..

Group A was praised on ability. Things like:
Youre so smart
Youre so intelligent

Group B was praised on effort. Things like:
You worked so hard on this
You put so much effort into this

All students were given a more difficult set of problems.

Group A experienced a big decline in performance, majority got the problems wrong

Group B did not experience a decline and performed well, getting most of the problems correct

What happened?

Group A displayed a fixed mindset. This line of thinking leads to "I'm either smart enough to solve this or i am not. There is nothing I can do to change this".
A fixed mindset is also linked with a fear of failure since this means "I'm not smart enough"

Group B displayed a growth mindset. This line of thinking leads to "I can improve my skills & expand my knowledge as long as I keep trying".
A growth mindset empowers kids as they learn that they can overcome challenges with their effort.
They also learn to view failure as a learning experience.

Nurturing a growth mindset increases the likelihood of success academically but this very likely translates to any challenges kids will eventually face.

Parents should keep this in mind when praising their kids and make an effort to identify their efforts & hard work rather than their abilities.