Educational Links 11/29/17

Are We Thinking About Reading Comprehension All Wrong?

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/11/28/are-we-thinking-about-reading-comprehension-all-wrong/

Talking About Public Education: The Good, the Deceptive, and the Destructive

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teacher_in_a_strange_land/2017/11/talking_about_public_education_the_good_the_deceptive_and_the_destructive.html?cmp=soc-edit-fb

Why Many Autistic Girls Are Overlooked

https://childmind.org/article/autistic-girls-overlooked-undiagnosed-autism/

Who is evaluating US schools?

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2017/11/06/who-is-evaluating-us-schools/?utm_content=bufferbb64a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

7 Ways to Promote Positive Student Mental Health

https://www.weareteachers.com/positive-student-mental-health-tips/

6 ways video technologies are fundamentally shaping education

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/11/02/video-technologies-shape-ed/

Ninety-nine percent of institutions report they have teachers regularly incorporating video technologies in their curriculum. More than half are using video for student assignments, with 21 percent reporting that more than half of their students actively create video (up from 10 percent in 2016). Seventy-three percent of higher education institutions use video technologies for remote teaching and learning.