Marshmallows, Technology and Self Control

What do marshmallows and Chromebooks have in common? Self Control! Students (and many adults;) struggle with self control on a regular basis. As a teacher, I've seen the challenge first hand in classrooms where teachers struggle with students as they use technology. Whether it's students sending digital notes to one another or watching youtube videos while they should be learning and creating content in their class, self control is present and a challenge to all from arrival to dismissal. I've used this topic of Marshmallows to identify students with self control, dissect the features of self control and support students with strengthening their self control with respect to technology use and the decisions they are faced with on a daily basis. View the below clip to learn more about Dr. Mischel and his longitudinal study or experiment on self control.

Padlet and thinglink

So my colleagues have been slowly turning me onto new digital presentation tools. Really, I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of tools out there. The speed with which new tools are being created, shared and then modified, requiring new information to be synched with the previous, is dizzying at times. thinglink is a great multimedia tool, that I believe teachers and students will find very useful. While there is a cost to the thinglink tool, you can create thinglinks with basic "free" tools. Padlet provides a shared format to post/host content.

Created with Padlet

thinglink

So previously I posted a thinglink I created with the wife. While entertaining, it was primarily used to share with Digital Solutions students on what NOT to do in a thinglink;) Below is a thinglink I created for/with my friend and colleague Lisa Tilly, Librarian at WOIS. Hover over the image to view the links to text and video that provides you with information about Lisa and her work at WOIS as the librarian.