Educational Links 10/22/17

Digital Citizenship Resources

https://www.edutopia.org/article/digital-citizenship-resources?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Expecting Our Kids to Behave Like Adults

http://developmentalempathy.org/executive-functioning-in-children/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=oct2017

Download: Graphic Organizers to Help Kids With Math

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/learning-at-home/homework-study-skills/download-graphic-organizers-to-help-kids-with-math?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Unmasking Anxiety in Autism

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/10/unmasking-anxiety-in-autism.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Video: Anti-Bullying Ad From Burger King

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/10/21/video-anti-bullying-ad-from-burger-king/

5 ways to apply Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to edtech for better outcomes

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/09/29/maslows-hierarchy-student-outcomes/

DeVos rescinds 72 guidance documents outlining rights for disabled students

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/87cd038e-42cc-3947-b2d6-1eb70e8b37dd/ss_devos-rescinds-72-guidance.html

Jones said it is not unusual for new administrations to update documents or to eliminate redundancies, but she had never seen so many eliminated at one time.

“If the documents that are on this list are all covered in newer documents that were released — which sometimes does happen — that would be fine,” said Jones.” Our goal is to make sure that parents and schools and educators understand how these laws work, and the department plays a critical role in that.”

Silly Music For Halloween #4 ...you hear the door slam...

5th Grade Kids Dance to Thriller 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU8VcP8AbWs 

This looks like so much fun, and good exercise, too. Loosen up, Teach! Take a few 20 minutes sessions to dance! And what outstanding music by Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson.  We can take some of the scarey out of Halloween by making fun of it.

Easy Thriller Dance - Rehearsal 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMyrBvtUHc 

Even Zombies can use exercise.

Thriller (Easy Dance) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLgsGK0w7wg 

Michael Jackson - Thriller Music Video 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG6oy46qKE4 

 

 

"Thriller"

[1st verse]
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your heart
You try to scream but terror takes the sound before you make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between the eyes,
You're paralyzed

[Chorus]
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer, thriller tonight

[2nd verse]
You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see the sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just imagination, girl
But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up behind
You're out of time

[Chorus]
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with forty eyes, girl
Thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside of killer, thriller tonight

[Bridge]
Night creatures call and the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time
(they're open wide)
This is the end of your life

[3rd verse]
They're out to get you, there's demons closing in on every side
They will possess you unless you change the number on your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together, yeah.
All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen,
I'll make you see

[Chorus]
That this is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller, chiller, thriller here tonight

[Chorus]
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
Girl I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, thriller

I'm gonna thrill you tonight

[Rap performed by Vincent Price]
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighbourhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grisly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

[Into maniacal laugh, in deep echo]

Educational Links 10/21/17

Uh Oh – Bill Gates Has A New Big Ed Idea

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/10/20/uh-oh-bill-gates-has-a-new-big-ed-idea/

Using Find and Replace as a Writing Tool

https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-find-and-replace-writing-tool?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Anxiety Is Taking A Toll On Teens, Their Families And Schools

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/20/anxiety-is-taking-a-toll-on-teens-their-families-and-schools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Great Resource for Multimedia Expression & Sharing

http://www.techlearning.com/news/0002/glogster/70807

Reading Strategies That Grow with Your Child

https://www.additudemag.com/reading-strategies-child-adhd-learning-disabilities-tips/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=adult

Digital Citizenship: Resource Roundup

https://www.edutopia.org/article/digital-citizenship-resources?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

New Study: Children are Losing Physical Literacy

http://www.childrenandnature.org/2017/10/13/new-study-children-are-losing-physical-literacy/

The report demonstrates that four out of five children do not meet the recommended one hour of physical activity per day, and many are exceeding sedentary behaviour recommendations due to spending too much time on screens.

Educational Links 10/20/17

Young Children Are Spending Much More Time In Front Of Small Screens

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/19/young-children-are-spending-much-more-time-in-front-of-small-screens/

How Do You Know If You’re Making a Difference That Matters?

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/edwords-blog/how-do-you-know-if-you-re-making-a-difference-that-matters

Handcuffing of Elementary Students Violated Fourth Amendment, Judge Rules

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/school_law/2017/10/handcuffing_of_elementary_student_violated_fourth_amendment_judge_rules.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheSchoolLawBlog+%28Education+Week+Blog%3A+The+School+Law+Blog%29

How to Help Teens Become More Self-Compassionate

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_help_teens_become_more_self_compassionate

Flexible Thinking: What You Need to Know

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/flexible-thinking-what-you-need-to-know?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Slow Processing Speed and Anxiety: What You Need to Know

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/information-processing-issues/slow-processing-speed-and-anxiety-what-you-need-to-know?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Teaching empathy when empathy is hard to find

http://trustedk12.com/teaching-empathy-empathy-hard-find/

Anxiety. Stress. Bullying. Suicide. Violent protests. Shootings. Fake news. The world that students are grappling with is both scary and challenging. To help students navigate young adulthood and make sense of the headlines and what they see and hear around them, school leaders everywhere are integrating lessons on empathy into the school experience, either in the classroom or beyond it.

Educational Links 10/19/17

Combining Inquiry and PBL: 3 Guidelines for Success

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/10/combining-inquiry-and-pbl-3-guidelines-for-success/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=Combining%20Inquiry%20and%20PBL:%203%20Guidelines%20for%20Success

A Troubling Side Effect of Praise

https://www.edutopia.org/article/troubling-side-effect-praise?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

How Do You Make Kids Love Reading?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/how-do-you-make-kids-love-reading?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Screen children with reading difficulties for hearing problems

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171005190248.htm?utm_content=buffer496cd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

How to Increase Classroom Transparency

https://teach.com/blog/how-to-increase-classroom-transparency/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

The Hour of Code: 3 Student Driven Activities for your School in 2017

http://www.teachercast.net/2017/10/18/hour-of-code-activities/

Acknowledging What Students Do Well

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/10/acknowledging-what-students-do-well

Helping students develop their analytical skills, rather than simply their ability to memorize facts and processes, is a tricky project — something that separates an exemplary teacher from a good one. Among the avenues for encouraging those deeper-thinking tools: positive, public reinforcement of the strong thinking you hear and observe in your classroom. 

Silly Music For Halloween #3...they're creepy and they're kooky...

Aside from finger snapping, students can create family portraits of Cousin Itt (pictured above), Lurch, Thing, Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Grandmama, Puggsley and Wednesday

The Addams Family Theme song 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6QzbvH-ZNo

They're creepy and they're kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
They're all together ooky,
The Addams Family.

Their house is a museum
When people come to see 'em
They really are a scream
The Addams Family.

(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)

So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We're gonna pay a call on
The Addams Family.

Printable Addams Family Coloring Book Pages 

http://addamses.blogspot.com/2012/02/printable-addams-family-coloring-book.html 

Educational Links 10/18/17

How school gardens, food ‘rescues’ are helping Nevada’s hungry

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2017/oct/02/food-insecurity-southern-nevada/#.WeT71zBRs2l.facebook

Mainland Schools Receive Puerto Rican Students—and Educators—With Open Arms

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/10/13/mainland-schools-receive-puerto-rican-students--and-educators--w.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

How To Handle Anxiety-Fueled Refusals To Go To School

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/17/how-to-handle-anxiety-fueled-refusals-to-go-to-school/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

 5 TECH TRENDS TO WATCH THIS SCHOOL YEAR

http://www.techlearning.com/resources/0003/5-tech-trends-to-watch-this-school-year/70808

Suspensions Don’t Teach

https://www.edutopia.org/article/suspensions-dont-teach?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Daily singing lessons for primary pupils set to be evaluated

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/daily-singing-lessons-primary-pupils-set-be-evaluated

Do Schools Need Certified Teachers? Do Children?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/leadership_360/2017/10/do_schools_need_certified_teachers_do_children.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Schools, their students, teachers and leaders, hold the future of this country in their hands.  Yes, it sounds like hyperbolic, but it is not.  The fiscal environment of education combined with changing demographics over the last decade or so coexisting with expanding career options and economic shifts has led to declining enrollment in teacher preparation programs. As a response, we hear emerging discussions about reducing the requirements for teacher certification and a growing charter system that in some cases, does not require teachers to be certified at all. 

Educational Links 10/17/17

Is ADHD a Learning Disability or Mental Illness?

http://www.c8sciences.com/is-adhd-a-learning-disability-or-mental-illness/

How We’re Smart

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/10/how-smart

Integrating Cognitive, Social and Personal Competencies

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/10/integrating-cognitive-social-and-personal-competencies/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=Integrating%20Cognitive,%20Social%20and%20Personal%20Competencies

5 WAYS TO ADD MORNING MEETINGS TO SPECIAL ED CLASSROOMS

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e170/

TIPS FOR A PURPOSE-FULL EDUCATION 

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/e171/

More Than Half Of New York City's Public Schools Now Have Gardens—And Kids Are Loving It

https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/garden/nyc-school-gardens?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=motherearthliving.com

Different Learning Strengths: What You Need to Know

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/learning-at-home/learning-strengths/different-learning-strengths-what-you-need-to-know?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Learning strengths combine your child’s talents and abilities with his existing skills and knowledge to help him take in new information. Talents and abilities are ways of thinking, feeling or acting that can be used productively.

Educational Links 10/16/17

Technology Positive and Negative Influences on Your Lives

http://www.educationnews.org/uncategorized/technology-positive-and-negative-influences-on/

Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/19/ditch-the-grammar-and-teach-children-storytelling-instead?CMP=share_btn_fb&utm_content=buffera5410&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Study: Too Many Structured Activities May Hinder Children's Executive Functioning

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2017/10/study-too-many-structured-activities.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29

Engage Kids With Digital Scavenger Hunts

http://www.techlearning.com/app-of-the-day/0011/engage-kids-with-digital-scavenger-hunts/70787

16 Helpful Differentiated Instruction Strategies To Use in Your Class

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/10/16-helpful-differentiated-instruction.html

How to Embed Foundational English Skills In Meaningful Work

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/10/12/how-to-embed-foundational-english-skills-in-meaningful-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Apple co-founder launches Woz U for tech education

http://edscoop.com/apple-co-founder-launches-woz-u-for-tech-education

Steve Wozniak wants to provide fast, affordable technology-based training to fill the unemployment gap and help students succeed.