Educational Links 9/21/17

Why Students Forget—and What You Can Do About It

https://www.edutopia.org/article/why-students-forget-and-what-you-can-do-about-it

8 Reasons I Think Home Assistant Devices Are the Future of Assistive Technology

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/expert-corner/2017/09/14/8-reasons-i-think-home-assistant-devices-are-the-future-of-assistive-technology

How Virtual Teaching Helps Remote K–12 School Districts

https://edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2017/09/how-virtual-teaching-helps-remote-k-12-school-districts

ADDitude Magazine: Free Downloads

https://www.additudemag.com/downlteaching methods, assistive technologyoad/

Being Popular: Why it Consumes Teens and Continues to Affect Adults

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/09/19/being-popular-why-it-consumes-teens-and-continues-to-affect-adults/

The Teacher’s Guides To Technology And Learning

http://www.edudemic.com/guides/

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Collaboratively Create Video Playlists

http://practicaledtech.com/2017/09/17/practical-ed-tech-tip-of-the-week-collaboratively-create-video-playlists/

There is a lot of great educational content on YouTube. The challenge that many teachers and students have is finding and keeping track of it all. Turn on the collaboration feature when you start making a playlist and then work with your colleagues to develop lists of educational videos for your students. You could also have students collaborate with you or their classmates to create a playlist of review videos. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to collaboratively create a YouTube playlist.