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Read Your World’s newest Classroom Kit is now available: Beyond Screens: Teaching Kids to Think Critically in a Digital World. Inside, you’ll find 18 curated children’s books on media literacy and fake news, free fact-checking tools, hands-on games, ready-to-use lesson plans, and podcast episodes with SEL guides and printable worksheets, a screen-free way to build…
“Teens struggle to distinguish news from opinion and advertising, making intentional news and media literacy instruction a key part of preparing students for civic engagement.” School Library Journal What is critical thinking? It means being skeptical. It means wondering about things. It means questioning what you are reading instead of automatically assuming that it’s true….
I didn’t keep up with all the changes at Harvard’s art museum. The Sackler Museum’s art was moved to the Fogg Art Museum after the Fogg Art Museum’s extensive renovation. I don’t think this was related to the Sackler scandal. The Sackler scandal refers to the Sackler family’s orchestration of the U.S. opioid crisis through…
My husband and I have been empty-nested for a few years now. At first, it was a little sad not to have the kids at home. Over time, though, we have enjoyed the freedom of just doing whatever we want. We’ve recently discovered traveling without kids, something we never did when the kids were at…
My oldest, Zoe Lee, who graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and studied Industrial Design, won a National Science Foundation grant for graduate school. She will be starting her Master’s Program at MIT this fall. This fellowship will also fund her PhD. We are so excited for her to begin this new…
Thank you to House of Heroes for sponsoring this post. If you are anything like me, you have tried every trick in the book to make screen time feel less like the default setting of your evenings. Activity kits that lose their novelty by Thursday. Board games that work brilliantly for two sessions and then…
One thing we keep saying to parents who want their kids to be bilingual but aren’t speaking the language yet is: the only way to start speaking a language is by actually speaking it. I know it sounds redundant, but it’s very true. We’ve seen this over and over again — kids, or even parents,…