Educational Links 7/11/16

Study: Music Education Aids Cognitive Development

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2016/07/music_education_aids_cognitive.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Summer Reading Lists For Kids Ages 6 – 14

http://imaginationsoup.net/2015/05/03/summer-reading-list-for-kids/ 

'Find Your Yoda' and Other Advice from Your School's Tech Department

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-20-find-your-yoda-and-other-advice-from-your-school-s-tech-department?utm_content=buffer49ae8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Next Generation Science Standards: What Do Lessons Look Like?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2016/07/next_generation_science_standards_lessons.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Is It Sensory Processing Disorder? Or Hypersensitivity?

http://www.additudemag.com/q&a/ask_the_add_medical_expert/5598.html 

Roll the Dice for Participation 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/increase-student-participation-getty 

'Find Your Yoda' and Other Advice from Your School's Tech Department

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-10-20-find-your-yoda-and-other-advice-from-your-school-s-tech-department?utm_content=buffer49ae8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Learn more than your tech staff’s names. Understand what each individual does for your school. Just because someone is in the technology department does not mean he knows everything about technology. You wouldn’t think of asking the head of the English department for help with physics. Nor should you ask a network administrator about software loaded on a student’s computer. Different areas of technology demand different skills set and levels of expertise.