Educational Links 6/29/2020

Human Rights Aren’t a Political Agenda. Why Don’t Public Schools See It That Way?

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2020-06-05-human-rights-aren-t-a-political-agenda-why-don-t-public-schools-see-it-that-way?utm_content=buffer69eca&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=EdSurgeBuffer&fbclid=IwAR0R6ObVGhFdkpcmoJzFtwVK6Wsv8HX5gNzh3M_syecxnAifv8gHErLcUFs

How to Create Interactive Videos, Three Options

https://practicaledtech.com/2020/02/24/how-to-create-interactive-videos-three-options/

Virtual Teaching: Skill of the Future? Or Not So Much?

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/04/20/virtual-teaching-skill-of-the-future-or.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB

How to Keep Students’ Attention in a Virtual Classroom

https://www.edutopia.org/article/how-keep-students-attention-virtual-classroom?fbclid=IwAR2aUVRxKKkvTbndv9flfFKul0HkDMTPRDzA_50kr4Bs0WL9Y8lLE9iVBPM

Now is the right moment to measure educational disparities

https://edsource.org/2020/now-is-the-right-moment-to-measure-educational-disparities/634668?fbclid=IwAR0VfMe-GzVEQ9r3xlDGlztlXsPafn8gUVx4JYsLnzraueXFLuu6bcE1rUw

America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/6/26/21304405/surveys-remote-learning-coronavirus-success-failure-teachers-parents?fbclid=IwAR1Pc41lwiZgBGdxHl-3XuqKntKF80hhzNtpywy6pvWSN-637hn2Ma4BfTA

The surveys offer more evidence that educators were right to worry that remote learning would exacerbate inequities. Over and over, Black and Hispanic students and students from low-income families faced more roadblocks to learning, driven in part by gaps in access to technology and the internet. And engagement with schoolwork was relatively low across the board, reflecting the challenges of keeping students engaged in a chaotic time and of teaching from a distance.