Douglas Green

Oct 7, 2024 | drdouggreen.com | Douglas Green

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know by Malcolm Gladwell features a number of notable stories where people were unable to correctly determine the intention of strangers. We default to truth when talking to strangers, which makes us prone to misjudgment. The opposite approach of always being skeptical of strangers, however, seems to be less productive. Many of the spies the US had in Cuba were double agents. For some reason our people couldn’t tell that they were.

Sep 8, 2024 | drdouggreen.com | Douglas Green

MATH-ish: Finding Creativity, Diversity, and Meaning in Mathematics by Jo Boaler explains how to change math teaching in order to allow more students to succeed. Students should study and create visuals, engage in class discussions, and be given more diverse lessons. Be sure to check out her website YouCubed.org for lots of great math resources. There are three villains here. One is our thinking that math is a series of procedures that need to be performed at speed.

Aug 23, 2024 | drdouggreen.com | Douglas Green

Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing) by Salman Khan paints a rosy picture of how AI can be used to provide personalized tutoring and assessment for every student. It can also help parents as they monitor and encourage their children to focus on important learning. While I hope that Sal is right to be positive, this book reads a bit like an advertisement for Kahnmigo, his tutoring product.

Mar 5, 2024 | drdouggreen.com | Douglas Green

class=”youtube-video”The Twitter names next to each link belong to the authors, publications, and the people who bring them to my attention. Be sure to try the bottom right translate button for your favorite language or one you are trying to learn. If you don’t see it, check your adblocking softwareAs schools embrace the science of reading, researchers are criticizing an overemphasis on auditory skills.

Feb 6, 2024 | columbian.com | Douglas Green

On Oct. 7, Hamas launched an attack that included rape, mutilation, torture and indiscriminate mass shooting of civilians. Some 14,000 rockets have since been fired, specially targeting civilians, by Hamas. All this was still underway on Israeli soil when some people called for a cease-fire. To what end? A Hamas state would not bring freedom to anyone, let alone the Palestinians. Handing state power to a terror cartel is not liberation. A Hamas state will have three exports: terror, chaos and refugees.