This post was originally just a request to readers for suggested videos.  Though I continue to look for more, I immediately received a number of great recommendations and have turned this post into a "Best" list including videos. I write a lot about metacognition on this blog (see The Best Posts On Metacognition) and in my books, and help my students develop metacognitive strategies. I’d like to use short clips from TV shows and movies that demonstrate metacognition in action, and was hoping that readers might help me find some. This post includes several reader-suggested clips - and  can always use more!  Here are links to a few other similar Best video lists on different learning topics, like: The Best Movie Scenes, Stories, & Quotations About "Transfer Of Learning" - Help Me Find More! The Best Video Clips Demonstrating "Grit" - Help Me Find More The Best Video Clips On Goal-Setting — Help Me Find More The Best Video Clips & Full-Length Movies For Helping To Teach Persuasive Techniques (Help Me Find More) The Best Video Clips On The Benefits Of Writing Well — Help Me Find More Here are The Best Movie/TV Scenes Demonstrating Metacognition: Paul Bruno shared this perfect one: Here’s one from Krissy Venosdale: Jim Windisch recommended Sherlock’s "Mind Palace." Here’s a link to a good clip (it’s not embeddable). Leigh Woznick suggests this scene from The Princess Bride: Leigh also suggests this scene from The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon teaches Penny physics. The most useful part is at about the 4:00 minute mark when Penny tells him she needs for him to slow down: Metacognition researcher Steve Fleming suggests this Big Bang Theory clip: I’m wondering if the Beatles song "Help" might work as an example, too:

One minute after I shared my previous post looking for clips on metacognition, Paul Bruno shared this perfect one that I had to share:

The mysterious and bizarre saga of suspended well-known teacher Rafe Esquith continues (see Rafe Esquith Suspended Because Of A Mark Twain Quote? If True, This Is Insane….). Read about it in today’s Los Angeles Times article, Teacher files claim against L.A. Unified, blames controversy on joke. Here’s an excerpt: Mark Geragos, an attorney for Esquith, filed a claim Monday against L.A. Unified, a precursor to a lawsuit. The claim gave notice of class-action litigation involving scores of teachers in similar situations who say they have been denied due process rights.

Since I posted my request for video clips demonstrating metacognition a few hours ago, I’ve received lots of suggestions. I have turned that post into The Best Movie/TV Scenes Demonstrating Metacognition - Help Me Find More and added these to it: Here’s one from Krissy Venosdale: Jim Windisch recommended Sherlock’s "Mind Palace." Here’s a link to a good clip (it’s not embeddable). Leigh Woznick suggests this scene from The Princess Bride: Leigh also suggests this scene from The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon teaches Penny physics. The most useful part is at about the 4:00 minute mark when Penny tells him she needs for him to slow down: Metacognition researcher Steve Fleming suggests this Big Bang Theory clip: I’m wondering if the Beatles song "Help" might work as an example, too:

"How speaking multiple languages benefits the brain" is a new TED-Ed lesson and video: I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning The Advantages To Being Bilingual Or Multilingual.

Thanks to Cindy Johanson, I learned about about this New York Times article today, Quartz Introduces Atlas, a Search Engine for Its Charts. Quartz is an online magazine I sometimes read, and it now has created a search engine for its charts called Atlas. The image at the top of this post you can see a screen shot of just a few of the charts I found when I searched "education." They have also opened up public access to its own Chartbuilder, which looks pretty easy to use. I’m adding it to both The Best Tools To Make Simple Graphs Online and to The Best Sources For Interactive Infographics.

© 2011 Vassilis, Flickr | CC-BY-SA | via Wylio As recent readers know, I’ve been doing research on metacognition as part of developing a new lesson plan. Effective note-taking could be an effective metacognitive strategy, and I thought I’d start a list of some resources and invite readers to contribute more: If you need it, here’s a simple explanation of the Cornell Notetaking System. 4 Popular Note Taking Strategies is from Exam Time. Note Taking Skills for 21st Century Students is by Vicki Davis. Learn To Take Better Notes - 3 Note Taking Strategies Compared Note taking Strategies for ELL Students in Content Area Classrooms Visual Notetaking in the Classroom is by Wendi Pillars. How English-Language Learners Have an Edge is by James Boutin. Some great tips here for effective note taking for students (& everyone else): http://t.co/RX6l4EQLGa By Claire Brown #eltchat #engchat — Reflective Thinking (@Refthinking) June 1, 2015 Desirable difficulty: Why we may learn more taking notes on paper than a laptop. http://t.co/gXcHkGwwqS @npr_ed pic.twitter.com/UKpK7ArAtT — Cory Turner (@NPRCoryTurner) June 1, 2015

Here’s the trailer for the upcoming film, "He Named Me Malala." I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Malala Yousafzai.

How Can Teachers Maintain A Healthy Professional/Personal Balance? is the new question-of-the-week at my Education Week Teacher column. Feel free to leave your responses here in the comments or there….

Thanks to the Zinn Education Project, I learned about a great searchable collection of social justice poetry that was just unveiled today at Split This Rock. Here is how it describes itself: Split This Rock explores and celebrates the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for change: reaching across differences, considering personal and social responsibility, asserting the centrality of the right to free speech, bearing witness to the diversity and complexity of human experience through language, imagining a better world. Split This Rock is dedicated to revitalizing poetry as a living, breathing art form with profound relevance in our daily lives and struggles. Our programs integrate poetry of provocation and witness into movements for social justice and support the poets of all ages who write and perform this vital work. It looks like a great site, and I think teachers will particularly like that it’s searchable by theme and through other categories. I’m adding it to The Best Teacher Resource Sites For Social Justice Issues.