Educational Links 7/7/17

Giving Your Teacher Team a Boost

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/giving-your-teacher-team-boost-ben-johnson

Types of Learning Disabilities

https://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/

How Online Camps Help Kids Stay Connected to STEM Skills and Mentors Year-Round

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/07/06/how-online-camps-help-kids-stay-connected-to-stem-skills-and-mentors-year-round/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

10 Team-Building Games That Promote Critical Thinking

http://www.teachthought.com/critical-thinking/10-team-building-games-that-promote-critical-thinking/?utm_content=buffer79a55&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

http://hechingerreport.org/reimagining-failure-last-chance-schools-future-american-high-schools/

Technology in the Classroom: Getting New Teachers Connected

http://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-getting-new-teachers-connected

A Teacher's Advice for Making the Most Out of the Every Student Succeeds Act

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/07/05/a-teachers-advice-for-making-the-most.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

DARING TO LEARN HOW TO LEARN

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/daring-to-learn-how-to-learn

Why do some of us learn easily and quickly, while others struggle, left behind plodding along?

Part of the answer, at least in the online learning space, is that learning is a real skill in of itself, and some people are more skilled at it than others. And the good news for the plodders is that it is a skill that can be readily grasped when we break it down.