Twist and Shout for THE TWIST-A-ROO! (plus a giveaway)
I love wordplay, and after I featured THE THINGITY-JIG by Kathy Doherty and Kristyna Littten here, I was thrilled to learn about their fun follow-up, THE...
22 Cool Children’s Books about the Winter Olympics
What are the best children’s books to get them excited and informed about the sports in the Winter Olympics? Share these books about winter sports that...
Social Media Text Prepper
It is now possible to use generative AI / artificial intelligence platforms, like ChatGPT 4, to create simple to relatively complex web applications without knowing the...
10 Popular Manga Books for Middle Grade Readers
Kids in my school library love manga so I gave myself a crash course in manga and manga books, and I’m ready to share what I...
New Middle Grade Books, November 2023
I’m catching up on a few middle grade books I missed reading from previous months. I’ll admit that I’m in a bit of a reading… The...
The 6 Best Chapter Books of 2023
Chapter books are illustrated narrative books with chapters written for beginning readers ages 7 to 10. These chapter books are my favorites from 2023, with excellent...
Understanding Rising Populism, Warfare and Authoritarianism
We should not only be teaching “traditional courses” like history and social studies in our U.S. schools today, we should be explicitly studying warfare and the...
15 New Picture Books, November 2023
Today, I’m reviewing November picture books and catching up on books that I missed from other months. I know you find lots of great new… The...
AI Bionic Blogging
New tools can provide new opportunities to not only “enhance efficiency,” but (in some cases) “transformatively empower” users to do things which were previously impossible. In...
Reflections on Hernan Cortes, the Aztecs, and Mars Colonization
Today in this blog post (and original video as well as audio podcast) I want to discuss a podcast episode titled, “The Fall of the Aztecs:...
