Educational Links 5/7/19

Agents of Their Own Success: Self-Advocacy Skills and Self-Determination for Students with Disabilities in the Era of Personalized Learning

https://www.ncld.org/archives/reports-and-studies/self-advocacy-skills-and-self-determination-for-students-with-disabilities-in-the-era-of-personalized-learning?fbclid=IwAR36Pat6Tid-pKxzWA1XG7LkAVOMl2U7lSA6gtIoZWkOe6y6PODaoX-CfHo

A Public School Makes the Case for ‘Montessori for All’

https://www.edutopia.org/article/public-school-makes-case-montessori-all?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1LTKz413Dw736KUyHilSGO_W7Pj5f7ccu6LP2szuWIqv84deoh8vX9u6k

ED TECH DIGest

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/05/06/ed-tech-digest-129/?fbclid=IwAR0pJvVLNekvpPSpjPI-BHViJSZ59OVy4CDtEfN5TPpd2J1IcDsc7BFnB50

Gaming as a Tool for Narrative Writing

https://www.edutopia.org/article/gaming-tool-narrative-writing?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR1d2XvrzvS7lwiXXs84E77bt-wk9WVQeIKFzfNxrsWnES1ae-WT1Rqwt4Q

What Student Voice Is — And Isn’t

https://medium.com/student-voice/what-student-voice-is-and-isnt-3ace9d991fb9?_referrer=twitter&fbclid=IwAR1966GDlxV6_QVRQsbC0GsyMLjMmQw2BeWvvTlD1lF4fX-a0El-StAJUGw

Marijuana and Psychosis

https://childmind.org/article/marijuana-and-psychosis/?fbclid=IwAR1dT13nUPYL4AiBoLy1b2cNw-flocgW_cn8agfXFsrQGHrW3Bdo8MS2wJg

Allowing students to retake tests mitigates fear of failure

https://www.educationdive.com/news/allowing-students-to-retake-tests-mitigates-fear-of-failure/553641/

• Giving students an opportunity to retake tests provides an opportunity for them to learn from their failures, but Edutopia reports most teachers responding to a Facebook and Twitter poll noted it's best done when limits are put in place, with many having found students would occasionally fail a test to find out what was on it, retaking it once they had the correct answers.