Educational Links 2/6/17

How To Never Run Out Of New Ideas As A Teacher

Http://Www.Teachthought.Com/Pedagogy/Never-Run-New-Ideas-Teacher/

Gender Equity in the Classroom

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/gender-equity-classroom-rebecca-alber

FAQs About Evaluations for Learning and Attention Issues

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/evaluations/evaluation-basics/faqs-about-evaluations-for-learning-and-attention-issues

10 Excellent Web Tools For Creating Digital Quizzes

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/02/10-excellent-web-tools-for-creating.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+educatorstechnology%2FpDkK+%28Educational+Technology+and+Mobile+Learning%29

Get Your Students Moving in 2017 With the 5-Minute-Per-Hour Challenge

https://www.weareteachers.com/get-students-moving-2017-five-minute-per-hour-challenge/?utm_source=SocialMedia&utm_medium=FB&utm_campaign=GopherSport&utm_Content=Article

Why We Shouldn't Ignore Political Speech on Facebook

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2017/02/tiasl_political_speech_and_mind-changing.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Lecturing v. active learning

http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2017/01/lecturing-v-active-learning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dangerouslyirrelevant+%28Dangerously+Irrelevant%29

 A growing body of evidence suggests that the lecture is not generic or neutral, but a specific cultural form that favors some people while discriminating against others, including women, minorities and low-income and first-generation college students. This is not a matter of instructor bias; it is the lecture format itself — when used on its own without other instructional supports — that offers unfair advantages to an already privileged population.