The #1 language art!

MiddleWeb@middleweb.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New: HELPING STUDENTS BECOME SKILLFUL PUBLIC SPEAKERS. All public speaking has two parts: building a talk and performing a talk. In a digital world it's vital for students to learn how to communicate with impact. #edusky #speech #literacy @erik-palmer.bsky.social www.middleweb.com/53485/helpin...

Educational malpractice? A teacher has students make podcasts of book reports but gives no instruction about how to speak well. The result? youtu.be/fgU8S3VGiN4?... Stop shortchanging students! Give them an effective voice. #edusky #teachers

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Money back guarantee!! If this book doesn't improve your students' oral communication, I'll buy it back from you.

MiddleWeb@middleweb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Review: TOOLS STUDENTS NEED TO SPEAK WITH CONFIDENCE In Well Spoken, educator Erik Palmer details tools to build public and digital speaking skills that give students agency in both classrooms and the workplace. #edusky #speaking @erik-palmer.bsky.social #speech www.middleweb.com/53213/tools-...

"Voice-to-text technology isn’t new. What’s new is the quality, the ubiquity, and the implications...we’re witnessing a fundamental shift from the written word back to the spoken word as a primary mode of communication and thought expression." #edtech #ILoveEdTech #ImFutureReady #elearning #AIEdu

The Return of the Spoken Word: Why Voice AI Demands We Rethink Oracy in Education

Wispr Flow and the slew of AI voice-to-text technology are shifting us from written to spoken communication. What does this mean for teaching oracy and literacy in schools? The Technology That Made Me Rethink My Entire Approach to Writing I'm dictating this blog post. Not transcribing a draft I've written by hand, not reading from…

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The NYT article about the man who attacked reads like the profile of a typical Trump supporter. All quality individuals...

Every adult: I wish I was more comfortable speaking. No adult: I wish I was more comfortable reading Shakespeare. Sadly, we make every student suffer through Macbeth, but we never specifically teach every student the skills of effective speaking. Ditch Shakespeare. #edusky

We killed reading. No one writes about how teachers contributed to the problem. No student ever said, "Wow, that was fantastic and I am really inspired to read!" after being forced to suffer through The Scarlet Letter. Dreadful, boring, and ancient. Our choices make reading painful. #edusky

Hey, #edusky people: can you help me compile a list of all the things that came by in your teaching career? Coding Makerspace Clickers Math manipulatives Differentiated instruction 6 trait writing Drop Everything And Read Centers Thematic units Writing across the curriculum And?...

Income inequality question: One million seconds = 11.5 DAYS One billion seconds = 31.7 YEARS Does Jeff Bezos need a few more billions or do his employees need better pay?

Nine years ago, I said that oral communication would greatly increase in importance as digital tools develop to showcase speaking. Unfortunately, schools are still teaching the same old stuff while students demonstrate daily that they can't speak well. #edusky pvlegs.blog/2025/12/05/l...

Can English teachers ever admit that poetry is overrated? That it demands WAY less time than they give it? So many much more important lessons are being shortchanged so students can get yet another haiku unit. #edusky pvlegs.blog/2025/11/08/p...

Just because YOU love poetry doesn’t mean…

My mother-in-law worked at a museum of natural history. She curated the Native American collections and took particular interest in the Passamaquoddy tribe in northern Maine. For several years, she…

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Remember to set your scales back five pounds tonight to get ready for Thanksgiving.

Bondi: 1 fentanyl pill can kill 10 people. Oz: each American will lose over 300 lbs. by midterms. RFK, Jr.: 250,000 Americans over 124 yrs. old are getting Work. Comp. Trump: I'm lowering drug prices 1500%. And we all just accept this idiocy and move on.

My condolences to everyone working retail at this time of year. I can't imagine hearing all the Xmas dreck songs multiple times a day every day from November 1 to December 25. "I'll Be Home For Christmas" eight times a day times 55 days? 440 times? And 440 "Jingle Bell Rock" and.... Sickening.

I remember when voters chose their representatives. Now, representatives choose their voters. #gerrymandering

What do we value? Hatred, not education.

Want an AI-proof skill? Want all students to master the #1 language art? Want to give students an effective voice? pvlegs.blog/2025/10/01/w... @edusky.bsky.social

What AI Can’t Do: Giving Students an AI-Proof Skill

AI has dramatically changed education. You know that. We need to be concerned about AI and writing. How can we encourage students to develop as writers in a world where giving a quick prompt to a c…

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Want an AI-proof skill? Want all students to master the #1 language art? Want to give students an effective voice? pvlegs.blog/2025/10/01/w... #edusky

What AI Can’t Do: Giving Students an AI-Proof Skill

AI has dramatically changed education. You know that. We need to be concerned about AI and writing. How can we encourage students to develop as writers in a world where giving a quick prompt to a c…

pvlegs.blog

300 million died from drugs coming in from Venezuela. Armenia and Cambodia were at war. Acema...let's see, how do you say it?...admeni... And no one does a thing to call this out in the mainstream press.

Heading back to school? Making podcasts? A quick read to see how to make them WAY better: www.hmhco.com/blog/how-to-... #edusky

Heading back to school? Making podcasts? A quick read to see how to make them WAY better: www.hmhco.com/blog/how-to-... @edusky.bsky.social

We have shortchanged the #1 language art. We make kids talk but we have no specific lessons to teach them how to talk well. @edusky.bsky.social

Stenhouse Publishers@stenhousepub.bsky.social · last yr.

What is uniquely important about learning speaking skills? How does it expand on/reveal other skills? #StenhousePub author @erik-palmer.bsky.social answers these questions from his book Well Spoken on The Authority Podcast with @rossromano.bsky.social. authoritypodcast.net/episodes/wel...

We have shortchanged the #1 language art. We make kids talk but we have no specific lessons to teach them how to talk well.

Stenhouse Publishers@stenhousepub.bsky.social · last yr.

What is uniquely important about learning speaking skills? How does it expand on/reveal other skills? #StenhousePub author @erik-palmer.bsky.social answers these questions from his book Well Spoken on The Authority Podcast with @rossromano.bsky.social. authoritypodcast.net/episodes/wel...

What is uniquely important about learning speaking skills? How does it expand on/reveal other skills? #StenhousePub author @erik-palmer.bsky.social answers these questions from his book Well Spoken on The Authority Podcast with @rossromano.bsky.social. authoritypodcast.net/episodes/wel...

The Authority Podcast — Expert Insights and Fresh Ideas for Education Leaders | Well Spoken with Erik Palmer

Today’s guest, Erik Palmer, is an educational consultant from Denver who focuses on showing teachers practical, engaging ways to teach oral communication skills, and showing educational leaders how...

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Conference season! You'll see lots of slides like these: docs.google.com/presentation... That's a shame. If you present, be the one to break the dreadful mold. pvlegs.blog/2024/07/13/n... @edusky.bsky.social @eduskyteam.com

Bad slides

Never Make Slides Like These A collection of slides with: Too much text Too many bullet points Silly graphics Unreadable fonts Silly backgrounds Overly complex diagrams General ugliness

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Hey. The guys good at pool

States’ rights!

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