Supporting Productive Struggle with Just Enough Scaffolding
Scaffolding is an integral part of productive struggle, writes Barbara R. Blackburn. The goal is to support our students without solving the problems for them.
Stop Counting Screen Time. Start Measuring Thinking.
Not all screen time is created equal. What if the real question is not how long students are on screens, but what those screens ask them to do?
Texas' new history curriculum could give the state unprecedented control over textbooks
The Texas Education Agency is spending millions to develop Bluebonnet textbooks and lesson plans to match the controversial new history standards.
Seven Questions Your Nonprofit Should Be Afraid to Ask This Summer, Part 1 | Another Think Coming
Summer brings a rare drop in organizational noise. The major event is over, webinar attendance slows, and staff members rotate through vacation schedules. Instead of filling that space with another round of planning meet
Notes by Hand Promote Better Learning Than Notes by Keyboard
Notetaking by hand fosters better learning and is an important aging therapy.Taking notes using keyboards instead of longhand has become common practice. However, while using a keyboard is fast and …
Dua Lipa Opening Physical Library for Banned and Censored Books
Dua Lipa, founder of the Service95 Book Club, has partnered with Livraria Lello to open a physical library in Porto, Portugal.
Nancy Frey—The Art and Science of Teacher Coaching — Principal Center Radio — The Principal Center
Listen to Nancy Frey—The Art and Science of Teacher Coaching on Principal Center Radio.
The Secret Weapon To Great Research Papers: Databases
Students of all ages should look to the databases provided by school libraries and public libraries to succeed
Belonging by design: Practical ways to support adult learners in hybrid and asynchronous courses - eCampus News
The most powerful belonging practices are built into the weekly routines of teaching, advising, and communication with learners.
Penpot: The Free Open Source Design Tool For Designers & Developers
Penpot is a free, open-source design tool for team collaboration. Experience an intuitive UI, flexible components, and powerful features. Learn more today.
This Linux command is the only backup tool I'll ever need
Experts recommend specialized backup suites, complex enterprise software, and cloud tools for data protection, and I've used my fair share of these. I'm done with all of them. Interestingly, what …
A Light the Darkness Cannot Extinguish," by David R. Brockman, Texas Observer, December 19, 2025
The Origins of White, Christian Supremacy: Can 15th-century doctrine explain today's culture wars? by David R. Brockman, Texas Observer, September 21, 2023
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Kids need less screen time at home and at school | CNN
Many parents know they should limit kids’ screen time at home. Teachers, however, may not set those rules, and their absence is hurting kids’ academic performance.
Swadesh Srivastava (@swadesh_srivastava_) on Threads
LinkedIn Scans Every Chrome User's Browser Extensions and Ties the Inventory to Their Professional Identity
Every time a professional opens LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser today, hidden JavaScript silently probes their device for up to 6,278 installed browser extensions, encrypts the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn's servers — where they are attached to that user's verified name, employer, and c
Lowe’s and Home Depot are sharing customer data with law enforcement – FlowingData
The stores use Flock cameras to collect license plate data from cars entering parking lots. Law enforcement is tapping the data as a source for their growing surveillance systems. Jason Koebler for…
AI models are getting better at replacing cybersecurity pros on certain tasks
UK researchers find LLMs are learning to finish jobs faster and improving all the time
Opinion | Kill Canvas. Now.
Last Thursday, the inevitable happened. In the middle of finals at many colleges, a hacking group called ShinyHunters breached the security of Canvas, a widely used learning-management system (LMS), …
Smashing Security podcast #467: How ShinyHunters hacked the world’s biggest universities
Welcome to the largest educational data breach in history - affecting nearly 9,000 institutions, every Ivy League university, and 30 million students mid-finals. When Canvas's parent company refused to pay and announced they had deployed "security patches" instead, the hackers were less than impresse
An end to the reading wars? More US schools embrace phonics
Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise.For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars. The battle has reached into homes via commercials for
Instructure reaches 'agreement' with ShinyHunters to stop data leak
Instructure, the edtech giant behind the widely popular Canvas learning management system (LMS), has reached an "agreement" with the ShinyHunters extortion group to prevent the data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. [...]
Screen Time Concerns Lead to Backlash Against Edtech Vetting Process
SCHOOL SOFTWARE SCRUTINY: Legislators have pushed back against cellphones in the classroom but are now focused on ensuring school software on devices ...
ShinyHunters: Instructure breach affects 275 million teachers and students | Mashable
ShinyHunters has struck yet again.
Palo Alto Networks firewall zero-day exploited for nearly a month
Palo Alto Networks warned customers that suspected state-sponsored hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity PAN-OS firewall zero-day vulnerability for nearly a month.
The Noise Inside the Quiet
Silence can be painfully loud and leaders who miss it, miss everything. Silence within a team is not a reliable indicator of agreement; more often, it reflects concern about potential consequences and peer judgment, where individuals make a calculated decision that speaking up is not worth the personal or professional risk. Gradually, this evolves into what many refer to as “shrinking.”
Shrinking is seldom an individual trait but a response shaped by team dynamics that, over time, makes staying quiet feel like the only safe choice.
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Personalised phishing attacks likely after global Canvas hack
With data potentially stolen from 200 million users at 9,000 institutions worldwide, staff and students told to be alert for more sophisticated attempts to steal data
School cellphone bans don't immediately improve academics, large study finds
The study compiled data from Yondr, a California startup that makes lockable pouches for schools, businesses and entertainment venues.