Educational Links 2/24/17

What Writing Wikipedia Entries Can Teach Students About Digital Literacy

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/02/22/what-writing-wikipedia-entries-can-teach-students-about-digital-literacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Bullying Starts in the Sandbox: Five Ways to Stop It There

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/student-centric-strategies/4264-bullying-starts-in-the-sandbox-five-ways-to-stop-it-there

How to address executive function skills in the classroom—and why you should

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/02/07/executive-function-skills/

Talking Race, Controversy, and Trauma

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/02/talking-race-controversy-and-trauma

The ADHD Brain Is Wired Differently

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/12314.html

Smart Ed Tech Strategy That Comes From the Classroom

https://leaders.edweek.org/profile/joseph-williams-executive-director-educational-technology/?cmp=soc-edit-fb

Encouraging Student Debate

http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/encourage-student-debate-getty

Shifting Your Assessments To Grow Higher-Level Thinking

http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/assessment/shifting-assessments-grow-higher-level-thinking/

It was no wonder our students were receiving high marks on classroom assessments—almost all the questions required students to recall memorized information. However, our state assessment and content standards demanded higher levels of thinking. Due to this misalignment, our school results on the state assessment were expectedly low.