Educational Links 3/22/18

31 Surprising Facts About Learning

https://www.teachthought.com/learning/31-facts-about-learning/

Some Teachers Who Are Assaulted by Students Don't Tell Anyone, Study Finds

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2018/03/teachers_assaulted_by_students.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

Meet 4 Women Revolutionizing STEM in the Classroom

https://www.eschoolnews.com/whitepapers/meet-4-women-revolutionizing-stem-classroom/

Why an 'interleaving' curriculum could improve knowledge retention

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/why-interleaving-curriculum-could-improve-knowledge-retention

What are the keys to Effective Student Collaborative Learning?

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/classroom_qa_with_larry_ferlazzo/2018/03/what_are_the_keys_to_effective_student_collaborative_learning.html

The changing role of literacy today, part 2

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/03/08/changing-role-literacy-today-part-2/

Ed Department Set to Abandon IDEA Site That Crashed

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2018/03/ed-department-set-to-abandon-idea-site.html

“How Smart Do You Make Others Around You?” Has Been A Useful Question For Me To Ask In Class

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/03/21/how-smart-do-you-make-others-around-you-has-been-a-useful-question-for-me-to-ask-in-class

Several days ago, I saw a tweet from Amy Fast sharing a quote from author/researcher Shawn Achor:

Before, we could only ask questions like “How smart are you?” or “How creative are you?” or “How hard do you work?” But now, we can ask the bigger questions: “How smart do you make others around you?” “How much creativity do you inspire?” “How much does your drive become contagious to a team or family?”

In other words, according to his research,  a person’s future individual success depends on one’s effectiveness with those last three “bigger questions.”