Educational Links 8/26/18

The Shift From Content To Purpose: A Continuum of Choice

https://wegrowteachers.com/shift-content-purpose-continuum-choice/

Video: Why Executive Function Is So Important for Your Child

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/executive-functioning-issues/video-why-executive-function-is-so-important-for-your-child?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Use This Chrome Setting to Save Your Laptop's Battery

https://www.freetech4teachers.com/2018/08/use-this-chrome-setting-to-save-your.html

Free Resource: Make Mindfulness Work for You

https://www.additudemag.com/download/mindfulness-for-adhd-natural-treatment-faq/

Reading Buddies

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reading-buddies

Can an Online Tool Depolarize Campus Discussions?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-08-23-can-an-online-tool-depolarize-campus-discussions

Digital Disaster: Screen Time is Destroying Childrens’ Health

https://richardjamesrogers.com/2018/07/01/digital-disaster-screen-time-is-destroying-childrens-health/

As teachers, we’ve pinned our colours to the ‘Technology Troop’ so much that as soon as people start speaking up about the dangers of widespread and pervasive technological encroachment into peoples’ lives they are often shunned; sometimes disgraced and can be seen as ‘old-fashioned’ or not ‘with the times’.