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 This week's EdSure Top 5 seems interesting: I'll store this here until later. Click here to see the original article which I just pasted here. The second one - on homeschooling and virtual schooling and NOT brick and mortar, is the one that speaks most to me... 1.   How to Help Kids Overcome Their Fear of Math, According to a Brain Scientist : Math gets a bad rap. Kids are scared of it. It gives adults anxiety when we have to calculate the tip at a restaurant. Some journalists (maybe even the one, ahem, writing this) joke about becoming a writer to avoid it. But math anxiety has a real, negative impact on students’ performance in school. The good news? We talked to a cognitive scientist who says it doesn’t have to be this way. 2.   I Used to Struggle With Where to Send My Kids to School. Now I Struggle With Sending Them at All : There are a numb

 Hi, I'm restarting this blog as a sort of cache of educational wisdom. I'll record things that I want to ponder.  Like a blog post by dan meyer and a tweet by Christopher Danielson.    Here's the tweet by @trianglemancsd aka C Danielson.   This extraordinary bit of tweetcraft from Christopher Danielson   reminded me this week of one of the most important principles in the whole of teaching: Everyone knows something about everything. All learning interacts with earlier knowledge. So whatever you’re trying to teach an old kid right now is interacting with knowledge they developed as a   young   kid which is interacting with knowledge they developed as a   very, very young   kid and so on. We might wish learning worked a different way, a way where I say stuff the way I understand it and then you immediately understand that stuff the same way I do no matter what you knew before I started saying stuff. But we go to the classroom with the principles of cognition we   have   no