Educational Links 6/7/17

Ideas—Not Devices—Are Changing EdTech 

https://www.google.com/searchq=Ideas%E2%80%94Not+Devices%E2%80%94Are+Changing+EdTech&rlz=1CAASUF_enUS719US720&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj0jOXe4qrUAhXJwFQKHbrlArQQ_AUICygC&biw=1440&bih=754

Setting the Stage for Arts Integration

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/setting-stage-arts-integration-folwell-dunbar?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Unidentified Dyslexia Takes Heavy Toll

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/05/24/unidentified-dyslexia-takes-toll.html?utm_content=bufferd692c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Schools Worried About Tracking Devices

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2017/06/06/schools-worried-tracking-devices/23777/

Graphic Novel Conversion 

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/book-life/graphic-novel-conversion?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

What Teachers Can Change

http://teachthought.com/terry-heick/in-the-evolution-of-education-is-less-more/?utm_content=buffer23bcc&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Integrated Curriculum: Why it Matters, and Where to Find It

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/06/integrated-curriculum-why-it-matters-where-to-find-it/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=Integrated%20Curriculum:%20Why%20it%20Matters,%20and%20Where%20to%20Find%20It

Life is integrated. Why isn’t learning?

Discipline-based learning was popularized in the mid 19th century. Disciplines were locked into place by course and credit structures a century ago. While experts would argue that disciplines have unique epistemologies worth exploring, the drawbacks of a discipline-based approach have long outlasted the benefits. It dampens engagement, narrows learning and damages preparation

Eighty years ago, the National Council of Teachers of English (ironically, a discipline-based organization) encouraged correlation (casual attention to related subjects), fusion of two subjects (often called multidisciplinary learning) and integration (the unification of all subjects and experiences).