Educational Links 5/14/16

 

Rediscovering Your Fulfillment as a Teacher

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/rediscovering-your-fulfillment-as-teacher-allen-mendler  

Top Web Resources to Motivate Kids for Coding

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2376-coding-computer-programming-for-kids?utm_content=bufferc6310&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Stop Trying to Define Personalized Learning

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-05-11-stop-trying-to-define-personalized-learning?utm_content=buffer940ed&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Experiential Learning 

https://www.verywell.com/experiential-learning-2795154 

When All Kids Eat for Free

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/when-all-kids-eat-for-free/481806/ 

Saving the IEP Meeting When Conflict Arises

http://www.smartkidswithld.org/saving-the-iep-meeting-when-conflict-arises/ 

‘Big data’ was supposed to fix education. It didn’t. It’s time for ‘small data.’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/05/09/big-data-was-supposed-to-fix-education-it-didnt-its-time-for-small-data/ 

For over a decade, “big data” and “analytics” have increasingly become a part of the education world. (Big data is a term used to describe data sets so large that they can only be analyzed by computers, and analytics is used to describe how the data is collected, analyzed and used.) Big data lovers believe the information can help policy-makers make systemic improvements in student outcomes — but, so far, that hasn’t happened. Here is a post about the problems with big data in education and about something new that could actually make a real difference: “small data.” What is it?