Educational Links 6/19/18

Never Be Afraid to Advocate for Students, Says 2018 Teacher of the Year 

http://neatoday.org/2018/06/12/teacher-of-the-year-mandy-manning/#.WyQSpsuX-zc.facebook

Flexible Classrooms: Research Is Scarce, But Promising

https://www.edutopia.org/article/flexible-classrooms-research-scarce-promising

Rejecting AP Courses

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/06/18/eight-private-high-schools-washington-area-are-dropping-out-ap-program

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Interactive

https://teachbytes.com/2018/06/14/revised-blooms-taxonomy-interactive/

Stop Relying on Teachers to Teach Our Kids to be Good People!

https://boredteachers.com/blogs/the-faculty-room/stop-relying-on-teachers-to-teach-our-kids-to-be-good-people

The Dangers of Distracted Parenting

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/the-dangers-of-distracted-parenting/561752/

Some autism traits may show up later in girls than in boys

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/autism-traits-may-show-later-girls-boys/

Digital footprint? Try digital tattoo, experts say

https://www.eschoolnews.com/2018/05/10/digital-footprint-try-digital-tattoo-experts-say/

In digital citizenship education, the idea of a digital footprint—the “tracks” students leave behind online as they interact on social media and put information online—is nothing new.

But lately, the digital footprint is being replaced by the digital tattoo, to emphasize to students the idea that any information they put online is permanent, just like a tattoo. Even if they think they’ve deleted it, it could have been saved or screen-shotted by others, or saved by the app or platform they use to post it.