Educational Links 5/2/17

Importance of Embracing Social Media in Online Education

http://www.onlinebusinessschool.com/importance-of-embracing-social-media-in-online-education/?utm_content=buffer4a91d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How to Respond When Students Use Hate Speech

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/how-respond-when-students-use-hate-speech-richard-curwin?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

'School reports have become so impersonal and filled with jargon that they have become meaningless'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/school-reports-have-become-so-impersonal-and-filled-jargon-they-have

DeVos: Outcomes at U.S. Schools Are So Bad, They Probably Can’t Get Much Worse

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/05/devos-outcomes-at-us-schools-are-so-bad.html

New Trump laws will support women in STEM fields

http://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/03/27/new-trump-laws-will-support-women-stem-fields/

32 Great Educational Websites for Teachers

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/04/32-great-educational-websites-for.html

Neurodiversity: The Future of Special Education?

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/apr17/vol74/num07/Neurodiversity@-The-Future-of-Special-Education%C2%A2.aspx?utm_content=buffer2073d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The biggest practical difference between special education as it's currently practiced and the neurodiversity-based approach is the way in which educators emphasize either deficits or strengths. Although special educators are certainly taught to look for students' strengths, the actual infrastructure of special education doesn't provide them with much in the way of formal or informal instruments, methods, protocols, or procedures for assessing their students' strengths.