Educational Links 5/17/18

Surface vs. Deep Learning: Knowing the Difference

http://blog.mimio.com/surface-vs.-deep-learning-knowing-the-difference

Private eyes track down kids illegally enrolled in suburban schools

http://hechingerreport.org/private-eyes-track-down-kids-illegally-enrolled-in-suburban-schools/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HechingerReport+%28Hechinger+Report%29

8 informal assessments to pinpoint what your students need

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/05/16/8-informal-assessments-to-pinpoint-what-your-students-need/

The Best Way to Explain Learning Disabilities to Your Child

https://www.additudemag.com/telling-your-child-they-have-a-learning-disability/

Scaffolding Social Action for Your Students

https://www.edutopia.org/article/scaffolding-social-action-your-students 

Three Ways to Make Your Own Virtual Reality Tours

https://practicaledtech.com/2018/05/13/three-ways-make-virtual-reality-tours/

The Benefits of Study Groups

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/what-students-can-learn-from-studying-together/

Maybe we should be making a stronger pitch for student-led study groups. There’s all sorts of research documenting how students can learn from each other. But, as regularly noted here and elsewhere, that learning doesn’t happen automatically, and some of us worry that it’s not likely to occur in a study group where there’s no supervision and distractions abound. Recent findings should encourage us to give study groups a second look.