This blog post describes how I curate and consume my education reading list. It’s a response to Michaela Epstein’s post (@mic_epstein) with the same questions (and title!).
I hope that others in the Edu-Twitter/blogging community will also write posts that respond to the same six questions. The greater the diversity of responses, the more likely it’ll be that a reader will find an approach that works for them. Write as little or as much as you like. You might also like to read posts by Ollie Lovell (@ollie_lovell), Amie Albrecht (@nomad_penguin), and Jeremy Hughes (@JeremyinSTEM).
Feel free to write less than me, I got a bit carried away after I got started. What a reading nerd I am.
1. What does your average reading/watching/listening day look like?
I schedule a reflection time each working day in my Outlook calendar for the last half hour of my time at work (6:00 – 6:30 pm). I use it for Twitter, online or offline reading, and some reflection activities. It might be more accurately called Generative Time, because I feel like it refreshes me each day to finish with something that helps me learn (and it gets me away from emails). To be fair, I don’t always stop with my busy work when the reminder pops up, but usually I enjoy at least some of the half hour for taking in an inspiring idea or three.
I used to use an RSS reader to read teaching blogs but I fell out of the habit and also the program was discontinued. Now I usually see the blogs I want to read via Twitter anyway.
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