Educational Links 11/19/17

The Top Five Reasons We Love Giving Students Choice in Reading

http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/ELQ/0383-feb2016/ELQ0383Top.pdf

Boundaries Are More Effective Than Rules

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/bluestein-rules-boundaries-classroom-behavior-management.shtml?utm_content=buffer1dcd7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9 ADHD Strategies Every Teacher Should Know

https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/teacher-strategies-to-help-adhd-students/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=school

My New BAM! Radio Show Explores What Policy Makers Don’t Understand About Education

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/11/17/my-new-bam-radio-show-explores-what-policy-makers-dont-understand-about-education/

5 Presentation Tools That Will Make Your Slides Stand Out

http://presentationpanda.com/uncategorized/5-presentation-tools-that-will-help-make-your-slides-stand-out/

Autism Wandering Bill Advances In Senate

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2017/11/17/autism-wandering-advances-senate/24445/

It’s better to understand something than to know it

https://qz.com/1123896/its-better-to-understand-something-than-to-know-it/

“Knowing” and “understanding” are related concepts, but they’re not the same. Each is a distinct mental state involving cognitive grasp: Knowing is static, referring to discrete facts, while understanding is active, describing the ability to analyze and place those facts in context to form a big picture.

Educational Links 11/18/17

Journaling the Old-School Way

https://www.edutopia.org/article/journaling-old-school-way?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

Some of the best Digital Curation Tools for Teachers

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/10/some-of-best-digital-curation-tools-for.html

SEL Weekly Update

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/11/17/sel-weekly-update-55/

Youth Radio Offers Kids' Take on Current Events

http://www.techlearning.com/news/0002/youth-radio/70872

Increased Hours Online Correlate With Uptick In Teen Depression, Suicidal Thoughts

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/11/16/increased-hours-online-correlate-with-uptick-in-teen-depression-suicidal-thoughts/utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

If You Really Want Higher Test Scores: Rethink Reading Comprehension Instruction

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/if-you-really-want-higher-test-scores-rethink-reading-comprehension?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

International Society for Technology in Education

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/international-society-for-technology-in.html#.Wg-RDoFSzGI

The International Society for Technology in Education, most commonly referred to as ISTE, is a professional organization that plays a major role in technology integration around the world. While there is a fee for becoming a member of ISTE, their website is full of excellent free resources. There are also some ISTE affiliates that are free to join.

Educational Links 11/17/17

New Study Finds That 4.2 Million Kids Experience Homelessness Each Year

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/15/564370605/new-study-finds-that-4-2-million-kids-experience-homelessness-each-year

Supporting Students With Interrupted Educations

https://www.edutopia.org/article/supporting-students-interrupted-educations?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Quick-Thinking School Staff Saved Children at California School

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/11/16/quick-thinking-school-staff-saved-kids-at_ap.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Why Computer Science Belongs in Every Science Teacher’s Classroom

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-16-why-computer-science-belongs-in-every-science-teacher-s-classroom

'Schools are constantly being asked to do more with less – they can't solve all of society's issues alone'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/schools-are-constantly-being-asked-do-more-less-they-cant-solve-all

Does Inclusion Slow Down General Education Classrooms?

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2017/11/does_inclusion_slow_down_general_education.html?utm_content=buffer95c84&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Google Arts and Culture

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/google-arts-and-culture_14.html#.Wg4_WYFSzGJ

These collections provide teachers with new and exciting ways to teach students about historical events and the people associated with them. They can be used to introduce students to events or fill in the gaps that are so often present in textbooks.

Educational Links 11/16/17

Spreading First Aid for Teens’ Mental Health by Training Adults to Help

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/11/15/spreading-first-aid-for-teens-mental-health-by-training-adults-to-help/

Everything Teachers Need To Know To Effectively Use Chromebooks In Their Teaching

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/11/everything-teachers-need-to-know-to.html

Make An Amazing Number Of Different Learning Games With “GameBuilder”

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2017/11/15/make-an-amazing-number-of-different-learning-games-with-gamebuilder/

How Project-Based Instruction Can Ignite Your Child’s Love for Learning

https://www.additudemag.com/project-based-learning-adhd-teaching-strategies/?utm_content=buffer01012&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Technology Consideration and Assessment for Secondary Students

https://www.ctdinstitute.org/library/2017-02-21/technology-consideration-and-assessment-secondary-students?utm_campaign=weta&utm_source=readingrockets&utm_medium=facebook

The Cornerstone of Social and Emotional Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/cornerstone-social-and-emotional-learning

Exaggerated Emotions: How and Why ADHD Triggers Intense Feelings

https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/adhd-emotions-understanding-intense-feelings/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=diagnosis

Challenges with processing emotions start in the brain itself. Sometimes the working memory impairments of ADHD allow a momentary emotion to become too strong, flooding the brain with one intense emotion.” Thomas Brown, Ph.D., explains why (and how) ADHD sparks such intense anger, frustration, and hurt.

Educational Links 11/15/17

8 Things Every School Should Know About Preparing for Natural Disasters

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-07-8-things-every-school-should-know-about-preparing-for-natural-disasters?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=UPVs

Whisper for Google Classroom

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/whisper-for-google-classroom.html#.Wguw3IFSzGI

Station Rotation Model: Offering Optional Skill Stations

http://catlintucker.com/2017/11/optional-skill-stations/

Incorporating Movement Into the Classroom

http://blog.mimio.com/incorporating-movement-into-the-classroom

5 Principles of Outstanding Classroom Management

https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-principles-outstanding-classroom-management?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29

What to do with your school's aging Chromebooks

http://edscoop.com/what-to-do-with-your-schools-aging-chromebooks

Students Share The Downside Of Being Labeled ‘Gifted’

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/11/13/students-share-the-downside-of-being-labeled-gifted/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

Many educators work hard to make students feel that the classroom is a place of learning, and that means making mistakes, rethinking strategies, and learning from setbacks. Based on Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s work on growth mindset, teachers encourage students to see their intelligence as something malleable, that changes and grows, not a fixed asset assigned at birth. Despite the popularity of these ideas in education, there are still systemic practices and requirements that undermine the message at every turn.

Educational Links 11/14/17

Using Icons to Help Organize Google Drive Folders

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/using-icons-to-help-organize-google.html#.Wgo8EoFSzGJ

13 Book Report Alternatives

https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?u=82f89e650972d4bee408c19f5&id=303afefca4

Snapchat, Instagram, YouTube, Oh My! 4 Tools for Picting in the Classroom

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-08-snapchat-instagram-youtube-oh-my-4-tools-for-picting-in-the-classroom?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=UPVs

A New Recipe for School Design

https://tntp.org/blog/post/a-new-recipe-for-school-design

Detention: is it a deterrent or a social club?

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/detention-it-a-deterrent-or-a-social-club

How Virtual Reality and Embodied Learning Could Disrupt Education

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/11/how-virtual-reality-and-embodied-learning-could-disrupt-education/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting+Smart&utm_content=How+Virtual+Reality+and+Embodied+Learning+Could+Disrupt+Education

Video of the Week: Dealing with digital distraction in the classroom

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/10/23/video-week-digital-distraction/

Digital devices put the world at our students’ fingertips, whether with their own cell phones or with school-provided computers and tablets. But along with opportunities for powerful learning come the risks–and realities–of distraction. So, what are the best ways to manage digital distraction in the classroom? 

Educational Links 11/13/17

10 Good Resources for Geography Awareness Week

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/10-good-resources-for-geography.html#.WgkUOoFSzGI

Does Reader's Workshop Promote Close Reading Adequately?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/does-readers-workshop-promote-close-reading-adequately?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

Low academic expectations and poor support for special education students is ‘hurting their future’

http://hechingerreport.org/low-academic-expectations-poor-support-special-education-students-hurting-future/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29

Google Arts and Culture

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/11/google-arts-and-culture.html#.WgkS84FSzGI

Use Technology in the Classroom to Move Your Lesson Plans Online

http://www.teachhub.com/use-technology-classroom-move-your-lesson-plans-online

Reflections on Teacher Power in the Contemporary Classroom

https://www.facultyfocus.com/resources/classroom-climate/building-rapport/reflections-teacher-power-contemporary-classroom/

As DACA Winds Down, DREAMers Turn Toward Different Futures

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/11/10/562847611/as-daca-winds-down-dreamers-turn-toward-different-futures?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=education

As politicians in Washington try and figure out what to do with the DACA program — Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals — across the country, DACA recipients are working on their own plans ... trying to stay in the country if Congress doesn't act in time.

Educational Links 11/12/17

3 Fun Strategies for Note Taking

https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-fun-strategies-note-taking?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Brain imaging reveals ADHD as a collection of different disorders

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171107140834.htm

7 Ways Audiobooks Benefit Students Who Struggle with Reading

https://www.weareteachers.com/audiobooks-benefit-students/?utm_source=FB&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=LearningAlly_1707_ArtSer

Free Tech Tools Teach Social Emotional Learning in Classrooms

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-11-06-free-tech-tools-teach-social-emotional-learning-in-classrooms?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=SC

How Project-Based Learning Unleashes Students’ Creativity

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/11/how-project-based-learning-unleashes-students-creativity/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=How%20Project-Based%20Learning%20Unleashes%20Students%27%20Creativity

What’s an Adolescent Brain’s Weakness? Other Tweens

http://www.gettingsmart.com/2017/11/how-project-based-learning-unleashes-students-creativity/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=How%20Project-Based%20Learning%20Unleashes%20Students%27%20Creativity

Making Student Feedback Work

https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/17/11/making-student-feedback-work?utm_content=buffer93904&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

When schools create a culture of feedback, they "send a strong signal to students that they care about their point of view, while also creating opportunities to model how to productively receive and respond to feedback."