Educational Links 12/3/17

'We need to make sure excluded children still get the chance of a decent education'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/we-need-make-sure-excluded-children-still-get-chance-a-decent

Setting Up Students for Productive Group Work

https://www.teachingchannel.org/video-lounge/productive-group-work/?utm_source=newsletter20171202/

Do You Know Your School's Vision? Tips on Making a Meaningful Mission Statement

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/11/22/do-you-know-your-schools-vision-tips.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB-TM

3 Ways Teachers Can Celebrate the Holidays with Cultural Sensitivity

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/teachers-of-the-year-radio/3548-3-ways-teachers-can-celebrate-the-holidays-with-cultural-sensitivity

How to introduce kindergarteners to computers

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/11/14/keyboard-kindergarteners-computers/

The Evolution of the Networked Educator

https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2017/11/28/the-evolution-of-the-networked-educator.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Teaching digital literacy in a new era of skepticism

https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=2104&category=Digital-and-media-literacy&article

Surfing the web lately can be like stepping through the looking glass, where right is left and up is down. Fabricated news stories are going viral. Elected officials are declaring legitimate news stories fake.

Helping students separate fact from fiction is no longer a matter of pointing them toward credible news sources such as CNN, the New York Times, The Guardian and other world media outlets. That’s because credulity isn’t the issue anymore, says philosophy professor Michael Lynch.