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The notebook is where you figure out what’s going on

βœ‡Austin Kleon
By: Austin Kleon
8 September 2024 at 00:00

I saw a trackback to my blog with this quote:

β€œThe notebook is the place where you figure out what’s going on inside you or what’s rattling around. And then, the keyboard is the place that you go to tell people about it.”

Who said that? I thought. That’s pretty good.

It was me. Many years ago!

Still pretty true, although, I also figure out a lot of stuff at the keyboard, too.

(I’m a little less binary than I used to be, which I count as progress.)

Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience Program from Ripple Effects

βœ‡EdTech Digest
By: Victor Rivero
19 August 2024 at 12:30

Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience Program is anchored by Breathing Bouncy(TM), a bilingual animatronic service dog. The program uses a multi-sensory approach to help children in grades preK-1, develop positive, secure relationships and build essential social emotional competencies needed for school success.

In addition to being used as part of whole class instruction, Bouncy the Service Dog provides a just-in-time, evidence-based response to support students when they are dysregulated. Unique, proprietary technology differentiates Breathing Bouncy from other edtech solutions in that he breathes at a slowed pediatric rate, allowing children to soothe and self-regulate when they hold him belly-to-belly and feel his chest move in sync with his breathing. While the physical Breathing Bouncy anchors the research-based learning system, the program features both physical and digital elements.

Used across settings, the program includes character-driven apps, music videos, games, interactive books and more to reinforce the relationship and provide differentiated, play-based skill practice and reinforcement.

Many of the elements are available in Spanish and English. In several pilots studies conducted with children identified as chronically disruptive, the program resulted in an increased ability [of children] to slow breathing on demand. Furthermore, those same children were able, in real-time, to transfer self-regulation skills during meltdown situations, which led to a reduction in problem behaviors, freeing up substantially more instruction time for the teacher.

For these reasons and more, Bouncy’s Ready to Learn Resilience Program from Ripple Effects was named β€œBest Early Childhood Learning Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards from EdTech Digest. Learn more.

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Waste books

βœ‡Austin Kleon
By: Austin Kleon
6 August 2024 at 20:04

Here is the reading shelf in our bathroom. For the past month or two, I’ve been reading a few pages of G.C. Lichtenberg’s The Waste Books in there every day.

Here’s how Lichtenberg himself described a β€œwaste book”:

Merchants and traders have a waste book… in which they enter daily everything they purchase and sell, messily, without order. From this, it is transferred to their journal, where everything appears more systematic, and finally to a ledger, in double entry after the Italian manner of bookkeeping, where one settles accounts with each man, once as debtor and then as creditor. This deserves to be imitated by scholars. First it should be entered in a book in which I record everything as I see it or as it is given to me in my thoughts; then it may be entered in another book in which the material is more separated and ordered, and the ledger might then contain, in an ordered expression, the connections and explanations of the material that flow from it.

Read more in today’s newsletter about always having a book with you.

Signed books

βœ‡Austin Kleon
By: Austin Kleon
2 August 2024 at 22:19

Here’s a photo of me at Bookpeople yesterday. A quick reminder that you can get all of my books signed and personalized and shipped anywhere from here in Austin, Texas. You can also order them and have them waiting for you if you plan on visiting soon. I usually go in on the first Friday of the month to do a big batch. Order here.

BuddyBooks from ObjectiveEd

βœ‡EdTech Digest
By: Victor Rivero
2 August 2024 at 12:30

BuddyBooks, funded through a National Science Foundation grant, helps struggling readers, such as students with dyslexia, ADHD or other reading disabilities, improve their reading skills. It works by students and a computer take turns reading passages from a book together. Since the student is reading every other sentence, it’s a lower cognitive load. That means students can read at their interest level, not their reading skill level, that they might think are β€œkiddie” books.

For students with dyslexia or other reading disabilities, BuddyBooks comes with over 1 million fiction and non-fiction books.

Using Natural Language Processing, the computer verifies the student has read each sentence correctly. BuddyBooks uses this assessment information to provide feedback to the student and to provide to teachers an oral reading assessment, so the teacher can quickly target their reading instruction based on the student’s individual needs. Teachers are seeing a 24% improvement in fluency when students use BuddyBooks.

For these reasons and more, BuddyBooks from ObjectiveEd is a Cool Tool Awards Winner for β€œBest Special Needs / Assistive Technology Solution” as part of The EdTech Awards 2024 from EdTech Digest. Learn more.Β 

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21st century books with pictures

βœ‡Austin Kleon
By: Austin Kleon
16 July 2024 at 19:45

Today’s newsletter begins:

Like many book nerds, I got sucked into the NYTimes list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. I am with Paul Ford that β€œWhy Wasn’t I Consulted?” is the fundamental question of the internet, and so a list like this one is bound to get big clicks…

One thing that struck me is that only two (great) comics made the list β€” Alison Bechdel’sΒ Fun Home (2006) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis(2004).

I thought it might be fun for me to list a few more books from this century that have pictures and words that have made a big impact on me in the past 24 years…

No paywall today so you can read the whole thing here.

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