Educational Links 7/31/16

Assessing Digital Literacy: Standards, Tools, & Techniques

http://www.emergingedtech.com/2016/07/assessing-digital-literacy-standards-tools-techniques/ 

Social Resources to Follow for BYOD in the Classroom

http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/2211-byod-in-the-classroom?utm_content=buffer4a3dc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Autism, ADHD, and OCD May Have More In Common Than Previously Thought

http://www.additudemag.com/adhdblogs/19/12071.html 

Are we raising a generation of nature-phobic kids? 

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-campbell-kids-fear-of-nature-20160729-snap-story.html 

Important Advice On Classroom Rules From The New Yorker

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2016/07/30/important-advice-on-classroom-rules-from-the-new-yorker/ 

Classroom clutter–what to keep and what to toss

http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/2015/04/classroom-clutter-what-to-keep-and-what-to-toss.html?utm_content=bufferdfdc6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

When Play is Criminalized: Racial Disparities in Childhood 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2016/07/when-play-is-criminalized-racial.html 

Institutionalized racism in schools, the police state, and even implicit bias in public parks and playgrounds deny Black, Brown and low socio-economic status children the fundamental right to blow dandelions, twirl, laugh out loud, race downhill and, yes, yell and bump and push and struggle -- and grow into adulthood secure in the memory of a childhood where they ran free and did play.