Educational Links 6/19/17

Neurodiversity: When you’re not flawed, just mentally different

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/06/15/neurodiversity-when-you-not-flawed-just-mentally-different/PURSa1XmQdjzYPOejcThAN/story.html?event=event12

How Can Technology Motivate the Reluctant Learner?

http://blog.mimio.com/how-can-technology-motivate-the-reluctant-learner

How Kids Pay Attention (and Why Some Kids Struggle With It)

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/distractibility-inattention/how-kids-pay-attention-and-why-some-kids-struggle-with-it?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-06-18-why-i-m-optimistic-about-the-next-wave-of-education-technology?utm_content=buffercc151&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Arts Integration

https://www.edutopia.org/blogs/tag/arts-integration

Say It with Your Hands

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/hand-gestures-in-teaching-sfusd

Poor Students Face Digital Divide in How Teachers Learn to Use Tech

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/06/14/poor-students-face-digital-divide-in-teacher-technology-training.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

America's most innovative schools constantly help train teachers to use new technologies, but the barriers to creating such a culture in high-poverty schools can seem insurmountable.