I have a huge backlog of resources that I’ve been planning to post about in this blog but, just because of time constraints, have not gotten around to doing. Instead of letting that backlog grow bigger, I regularly grab a few and list them here with a minimal description. It forces me to look through these older links, and help me organize them for my own use. I hope others will find them helpful, too. These are resources that I didn’t include in my “Best Tweets” feature because I had planned to post about them, or because I didn’t even get around to sending a tweet them.

Here are This Week’s “Links I Should Have Posted About, But Didn’t”:

I’m adding these next two posts/articles to A Very Beginning List Of The Best Articles On The iPad Debacle In Los Angeles Schools:

IPads for L.A. teachers to be postponed under new plan is from The Los Angeles Times.

Miami-Dade Pauses 1-to-1 Computing Initiative, Considers Big Changes is from Education Week.

Skills Practice | Distinguishing Between Fact and Opinion is from The New York Times Learning Network. I’m adding it to The Best Online Resources For Helping Students Learn To Write Persuasive Essays.

Your first year teaching, in one chart is from The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Advice For New Teachers.

Great Questions is an excellent site from Story Corps. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles About Asking Good Questions — Help Me Find More.

Who’s Biggest? The 100 Most Significant Figures in History is from TIME. I’m adding it to The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About World History.

I’m adding this New York Times video on earthquakes and fracking to The Best Sites For Learning About Earthquakes:

Google Tips is a new site from Google that provides simple…tips to people about how to use Google tools. Thanks to Richard Byrne for the tip. I’m adding it to The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics.

Nelson Mandela’s Funeral in Pictures is from TIME. I’m adding it to The Best Resources Honoring Nelson Mandela At His Passing….

Honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe is a photo gallery from The LA Times. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning & Teaching About The Day Of The Virgin Of Guadalupe.

We’re doing our ninth-grade unit on New Orleans right now, and I wanted to add a number of videos to The Best Websites For Teaching & Learning About New Orleans:

I’m continuing to create specific “The Best…” lists corresponding to the countries and regions we’re studying in my ELL Geography class.

You can see all them at The Best Geography Sites For Beginning & Intermediate English Language Learners.

Today, I’m in a little bit of a rush, so I’ll try to quickly pull together some resources on the United Kingdom (we’re studying it this week and then making a video with questions for a sister class there). I’ll be adding more, and invite others to make suggestions:

National Geographic For Kids — United Kingdom

Kids Ask Questions About England

Fact Monster United Kingdom

TIME For Kids — England

Visual Geography — United Kingdom

Manchester, England

Where To Next?

Wales

The view from the top of the Shard: London panorama of sights and sounds – interactive

Scotland

London At Night

The Little Red Hen — An English Folktale

Chicken Little — An English Folktale

Myths from England

I have many free resources, including excerpts and student hand-outs, available from all my books. Clicking on the covers will lead you to them:

Three weeks ago I published a post wondering how people teaching the IB Theory of Knowledge course handled instruction on the concept of “knowledge questions” and invited guests to contribute.

I’ll be publishing my annual round-up of of “Best” TOK resources, and wanted to post this collection on the topic prior to that time.

Here they are:

Attention, IB Theory Of Knowledge Teachers! How Do You Teach “Knowledge Questions” (Formerly “Knowledge Issues”)? is my original post, which also includes some useful resources.

Response: How Do You Teach About Knowledge Questions? is by TOK textbook author Eileen Dombrowski.

Response: Teaching Knowledge Questions is by TOK teacher Brad Ovenell-Carter.

Another Response: Teaching Knowledge Questions is by Prof. Crow, writing on behalf of TOK Tutor.

I’ll be adding to this list as more guest responses come in….

After Babylon: Analysis of the current linguistic situation in the world is a very impressive interactive infographic:

Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually.

People might differ with my interpretation of a new study that has just come out (and I’d love to hear if you do), but it seems to me that it has found that standardized testing may measure how well a school is doing on training students on lower-level thinking skills needed to do well on…standardized tests, but has practically no value in measuring “fluid intelligence” abilities like ability to transfer knowledge in one area and apply it towards solving a problem in another.

The study comes from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and you can read their summary here.

Here’s an interview with one of the study’s authors, which I think is even more interesting. He’s very careful with his interpretation of its results — a characteristic that I wish other researchers .

Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

Study: High Standardized Test Scores Don’t Translate to Better Cognition is another article and video about the same study. It’s from U.S. News.

I’m adding this post to The Best Resources For Learning About The Concept Of “Transfer” — Help Me Find More.

Teachers Must Help Determine New Ideas Being Implemented is my latest post over at Education Week Teacher.

In addition to commentaries by Renee Moore and Kelly Young (who I consider a mentor and from whom I’ve learned more about teaching than anyone else), I share some of my own thoughts…

I’m adding that post to The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change.