Educational Links 6/16/18

Homework gap is equivalent of only giving some students textbooks

https://edscoop.com/washington-gov-inslee-broadband-access-homework-gap

Free Google Wi-Fi transforms rural school buses into rolling classrooms

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/04/02/google-giving-rural-school-bus-riders-free-wi-fi-homework/476899002/

It's Time to Rethink School Schedules, Report Says

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2017/02/report_its_time_to_rethink_sch.html?cmp=soc-fb-promo-school-schedule&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Facebook+Ad

The Foundation of Self-Reflection

https://www.stanfield.com/blog/2018/06/strategies-activities-teach-self-reflection/

GPAs don’t really show what students learned. Here’s why.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2018/06/15/gpas-dont-really-show-what-students-learned-heres-why/?utm_term=.84fc4f6e66e8

Inside the Mind of a Teacher Who Reads Body Language

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/inside-mind-teacher/

5 Things You Should NEVER Do in the Teaching Profession

http://www.teachhub.com/5-things-you-should-never-do-teaching-profession

For Young Brains, a Storytelling Sweet Spot

https://www.edutopia.org/article/young-brains-storytelling-sweet-spot

Picture books represented a kind of happy medium (pardon the pun), and the researchers concluded that they were “just right.” The combination of spoken words and images gave children just enough scaffolding to understand the story, yielding the richest levels of story comprehension, imagination, and self-reflection.