Educational Links 11/23/17

Making Sure Your Praise Is Effective

https://www.edutopia.org/article/making-sure-your-praise-effective?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Fact or fiction: Devices stunt SEL

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/11/21/fact-fiction-devices-stunt-sel/

Adults Send Children Mixed Messages About Kindness. Here's Why That Matters to Schools

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rulesforengagement/2017/11/adults_send_children_mixed_messages_about_kindness_heres_why_that_matters_to_schools.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Bloom's Taxonomy for the Web

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/11/blooms-taxonomy-for-web-visual.html

Songs about computer coding? It's what happens when an arts school adds STEM focus

https://edsource.org/2017/songs-about-computer-coding-its-what-happens-when-an-arts-school-adds-stem-focus/590371

This no-brainer tool combats teacher turnover

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/10/30/tool-combats-teacher-turnover/

No More Easy A's: Classroom Can Be a Breeding Ground for Grit (Q&A)

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/bookmarks/2017/11/classroom_can_be_breeding_ground_for_grit.html

When positive-psychology expert and author Caroline Adams Miller began parenting in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it was the height of the self-esteem movement and what Miller dubs the "everyone's a winner era." She noticed that many of her children's peers attended the kinds of ceremonies where everyone got a medal. Their schools inflated grades or threw them out the window altogether. Parents lowered expectations and went to great lengths to make children feel special, boosting mediocrity in the process. Miller describes this age group (who are now millennials) as the "bubble-wrapped generation."