Education Links 10/9/16

Slow Processing Speed and Anxiety: What You Need to Know 

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/information-processing-issues/slow-processing-speed-and-anxiety-what-you-need-to-know 

'It’s often forgotten: humour is a brilliant way of mastering classroom management'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/its-often-forgotten-humour-a-brilliant-way-mastering-classroom 

Metacognition: Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/ascd-learn-teach-lead-radio/4080-metacognition-teaching-students-to-drive-their-brains 

Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: Check Out These Autumnal Resources

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2016/10/06/pumpkin-spice-and-everything-nice-check-out-these-autumnal-resources/ 

Help Your Child Focus at School When ADHD Gets In the Way

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/118/slide-1.html 

The Benefits of Art for Kids

http://artfulparent.com/2016/01/the-benefits-of-art-for-kids.html 

How Edtech Tools Evolve

https://www.edsurge.com/research/special-reports/state-of-edtech-2016/builders?utm_content=buffer72de6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Great inventors have proclaimed technology’s potential to transform education before. In 1913, Thomas Edison asserted that “books will soon be obsolete in the public schools,” replaced by motion pictures. Nearly a century later, Steve Jobs, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson, believed print textbooks were “ripe for digital destruction.”