WinkWorld June 2013

Hello Friends,
As you know, WinkWorld tends to be an assortment of diverse ideas, which I find interesting. Pedagogy (teaching and learning) is the glue, which holds it all together. Once again in this issue, you will find summaries of stuff hanging around my desk, living on my desktop, and/or bouncing around in my head.

Arthur Costa
Andrew Zolli and Resiliency, or Hardiness Research
Rita Pierson on TEDTalks
International Journal of Foreign Language Education
The Backseat Linguist
How Brave Children Walk to School Around the World
Sir Ken Robinson
Loving Those Libraries
Self-organizing Learning Environments (SOLE)
Where in the World is Myanmar/Burma? Karen Refugees
Free Voluntary Reading
Books for Teachers
New Angels
Welcome To The World
Notes from the Real World
Prairie Pedagogy
Dawn Wink: Dewdrops

What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced with what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure.
So now we measure how well we taught what isn’t worth learning.

~Arthur Costa
Professor Emeritus California State University

Andrew Zolli
Resiliency! We, teachers, will understand his thoughts on the value of being resilient. He does hardiness research: Gotta love this!
http://andrewzolli.com/
http://poptech.org/leadership
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/zolli.html
http://www.onbeing.org/program/a-shift-to-humility-andrew-zolli-on-resilience-and-expanding-the-edge-of-change/5501

Ordinary Magic, No Less Magical
http://andrewzolli.com/ordinary-magic-is-no-less-magical

TED Talks
Rita Pierson
Every Kid Needs a Champion
http://www.ted.com/talks/rita_pierson_every_kid_needs_a_champion.html

International Journal of Foreign Language Education
FREE (Open Access)
www.ijflt.com
Filled with current research and great teacher-to-teacher articles. For those of you following TPRS, you will find Blaine Ray here, also.
Previously on WinkWorld, I have shared some examples of this exciting method.
http://www.joanwink.com/newsletter/2012/news1012.php WinkWorld, Oct. 2012
http://www.joanwink.com/scheditems/GVWP-092212doc.pdf WinkWorld, Sept. 2012
Go to Search (over on the lower left of my web pages) http://www.joanwink.com/search.php and type in TPRS.

The Backseat Linguist: Thank you Jeff McQuillan and Lucy Tse
The Backseat Linguistic Blog: Commentary on research in second language acquisition and language education.
http://backseatlinguist.com/blog/
ESLPod, or English as a Second Language Podcast
http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html
A minimal charge comes with the podcast.
What do I get when I become a member?
http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/become-an-esl-podcast-member-today/#1WhatdoIgetwhenIbecomeamemberofESLPodcast

How Brave Children Walk To School Around the World
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/journeys_to_school_against_all_the_odds/
and/or
Ali Adelstein
If you are a Google + user.
https://plus.google.com/117520666412794415990/posts/eATMjyKdd93

Sir Ken Robinson
How To Escape Education’s Death Valley
http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_how_to_escape_education_s_death_valley.html
10 of his TED Talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/124/ken_robinson_10_talks_on_educ.html

Loving Those Libraries
Many public libraries now have software to share eBooks. In addition, many libraries support processes, which enhance communities of readers: More SOLE (see next post). I hope you will check out what your own public library is doing.

Here is what our local library (Sturgis Public Library, 85 m. away) is doing.
Overdrive’s (a software program) Big Library Read is a pilot program, which joins readers worldwide, as they read the same book. Now, this is what I call a book club.
http://sturgispubliclibrary.blogspot.com/club.
SD Titles To Go recently read Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone. See more at
http://sturgispubliclibrary.blogspot.com/

Little Free Libraries
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130531/NEWS10/305310025
“The way it works…”

Renfrew County Book Tree
http://www.physicalactivitynetwork.ca/event/book-tree-renfrew-county-update

Book Tree to Book Forest
http://www.countyofrenfrew.on.ca/news-events/news/new-book-tree-forest-will-help-support-learning-for-local-fa/
And, you can use Google Images to see some of the forest (of books!)
O Canada!

‘Lil Bit Brit (little free library)
http://lilbitbrit.blogspot.com/2013/06/little-free-library.html

http://www.joanwink.com/winkworld-archive/winkworld-february-2013/
WinkWorld, Februrary 2013

Recently, I was caught in a rainstorm in Rapid City, South Dakota, and fortunately I was very close to a bookstore. I made it to the front door, and the heavens opened up with heavy rain. I was giddy to be in a bookstore alone, and I enjoyed 45 minutes of uninterrupted time with books, books, books. When I left the store, I was a bit poorer and happier. It was only after I got home that I realized what a diverse collection of books, which I had purchased:
Brilliant Blunders: from Darwin to Einstein by Mario Livio
Willie Nelson by LIFE ICONS
The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America by David Stockman,
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake: A Memoir of a Woman’s Life, and several books for various kids.

I’m guessing that yesterday I was the only person in that bookstore to buy a book by Stockman (a private equity investor and Reagan’s financial budget director), Livio (an astrophysicist), Quindlen (a chronicler of the real life of women), and Nelson (a singer). OK, it’s true: When I got home, I grabbed Quindlen and started reading.

SOLE (Self-Organizing Learning Environments) Sugata Mitra
Once you begin to understand Mitra’s ideas of SOLE, you see it everywhere: great classrooms, libraries, books clubs, virtual communities.
Here is Mitra’s plan.
http://www.ted.com/pages/prizewinner_sugata_mitra
We will be hearing more about SOLE in the coming months.
http://www.ted.com/pages/prize_nominate
Previously, I have mentioned Mitra’s ideas.
http://www.joanwink.com/newsletter/2013/news0513.php
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

Where in the World is Myanmar/Burma?
Find Myanmar/Burma

Please note how Myanmar/Burma and Thailand share a border; the refugee camps are in Thailand.
Karen Refugees
Several states in the upper Midwest and Northern Plain states now have Karen-speaking children and students in their schools.
Thank you to Jo Holzer for calling our attention to this CNN feature on these refugees.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/thai.karen/

FVR (Free Voluntary Reading)
Resiliency: Why Things Bounce Back by Andrew Zolli and Ann Marie Healy
Click here for your copy

Books for Teachers
Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher
Click here for your copy
Even if you are not a teacher, I suspect you might like Mary Pipher books.

New Angels
Dear Uncle Herb (VA), Jerry (AZ), Karen (SD), Ernest (SD)

Welcome To The World
Ezra (CA), Ryan Chandler (PA)

Notes from the Real World