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Showing posts with label edchat. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Educational Links 9/3/20



NYC principals union warns of staffing crisis amid school reopenings



How Sensory Processing Issues Affect Kids in School

Stop Calculating And Start Teaching Computational Thinking



What Your Child Would Tell You About ADHD If They Had the Words


Complaints Over Offensive Content Lead Schools to Drop Online Learning Provider

Social and Emotional Learning


Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Lessons for COVID-19 Era


The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts. But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence.

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Educational Links 7/24/2020



How This District Made a Seamless Leap Into Remote Learning With SSO


7 things teachers can do to address student trauma – especially during distance learning



Inspirations: How educators are transforming the education process


Forget Self-Care for Teachers. We Are Fighting for Our Lives


The huge problem with education ‘pandemic pods’ suddenly popping up


HERE ARE LINKS TO THE BEST EDUCATION REPORTING FOR THE YEAR


HERE ARE LINKS TO THE BEST EDUCATION REPORTING FOR THE YEAR


Charter schools that offer homeschool forced to waitlist thousands of families


School choice advocates say a growing number of California parents are seeking out charter schools that specialize in “nonclassroom-based” instruction because of their long track records in distance learning, but a new state law is essentially capping enrollment at pre-pandemic levels.



Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Educational Links 4/15/20

How to Make PBL a Reality in a Distance Learning Environment


Teachers, If You're Not OK Right Now, You're Not Alone


Top 5 Parent-Teacher Communication Apps For Remote Learning


How Music Has Opened Doors for My Autistic Daughter


“FOUR WAYS TO HELP STUDENTS FEEL INTRINSICALLY MOTIVATED TO DO DISTANCE LEARNING”


How to Avoid Teacher Burnout | Tips from Veteran Teachers


3 Tips for Humanizing Digital Pedagogy


An elementary teacher who has worked for an edtech start-up argues that it’s important now—with teachers and students working separately—to promote reflection and social connection as tools for learning.



Friday, March 27, 2020

Educational Links 3/28/2020


What Technology Can & Cannot Replace In The Classroom


150+ EDUCATIONAL SHOWS ON NETFLIX


With Schools Closed, Kids With Disabilities Are More Vulnerable Than Ever


40 Homeschooling Tools And Resources We Use Every Day


Flood of Online Learning Resources Overwhelms Teachers


60 Things Every Child Should Know About The Internet


Massive Shift to Remote Learning Prompts Big Data Privacy Concerns


Teachers have already begun connecting with students using a variety of digital tools, some of which are new to them and their schools and weren’t designed for classroom use—everything from videoconferencing apps like Zoom to digital devices like Chromebooks and learning platforms like Babbel and BrainPop.









Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Educational Links 12/18/19

Why Music Education Is More Than Learning How to Play


How to Engage Reluctant Readers


Why and How Civic Engagement Belongs in the STEM Classroom


ADHD Essentials



Active shooter prep shouldn’t traumatize students


Five Current Trending Issues in Special Education

Want Mastery? Let Students Find Their Own Way


Prominent scholars say that to drive deeper learning, students need to become accustomed to confusion—and develop the persistence to find their own answers.

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Social/Emotional Learning

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

Social and Emotional Learning


Why Social-Emotional Learning Is Suddenly in the Spotlight


Social-Emotional Learning: What You Need to Know


Social and Emotional Learning


21 Simple Ways to Integrate Social-Emotional Learning Throughout the Day


5 Social-Emotional Learning Games to Play With Your Child


Monday, September 2, 2019

Educational Links 9/3/19

Teachers Change Lives


10 MINUTE TEACHER PODCAST


Are Good Intentions But Bad Ideas Growing Fragile Students?


How to Learn All Your Students’ Names the First Day of School


Author Interview: 'Unconscious Bias in Schools'


9/11 IS COMING UP – HERE ARE RELATED TEACHING & LEARNING RESOURCES


6 Surprising Benefits of Video Games for Kids


  • While there are downsides to playing video games, there are also surprising benefits.
  • Video games can help kids build skills and make social connections.
  • Kids who play video games are often very creative.


Saturday, March 2, 2019

Educational Links 3/3/19


How To Build Instant Rapport With Individual Students

The Value of Connecting Students: 5 Ways to Help Get You Started


Signs of Slow Processing Speed at Different Ages


There's a gap in education that only industry can fill, report says


How the Documentary “2E: Twice Exceptional” Made Me a More Hopeful Parent


How an Alternative School Helped One Student Find His Way From Suspension to Graduation



Interactive Notebooks: No Special Hardware Required


Before I started using interactive notebooks, I got by, but barely. I'd make multiple copies of every handout for students who were constantly losing theirs. Students would take notes sometimes, and sometimes they wouldn't. All of my grades focused on the finished products, never on the process. I had few or no opportunities to explore the texts that we were studying in class using visual, logical, intrapersonal, or interpersonal learning styles. If I wanted students to write, I had to collect every page that they wrote, and I inevitably had a stack of unread notebook pages on my desk at the end of every day. Classes were discussion all day, every day, with me as the main source of energy for that discussion.

Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Educational Links 2/7/19



8 Critical Skills For A Modern Education

Using Contemporary Culture to Teach Black History


365 Characteristics Of Good Teachers



Using Expressive Writing To Keep Students Grounded and Engaged in Science Courses


10 Powerful Community-Building Ideas



Understanding Dyslexia



How Game-Based Learning Empowers Students for the Future


Two decades in, and it’s abundantly clear that one of the most effective ways to nurture the 21st century’s trademark skills—creativity, critical thinking, communication, collaboration—is by creating opportunities for kids to do what kids do naturally: play. So we’ve crafted this educators’ guide to game-based learning, packed with resources for gaming gurus and greenhorns alike.


Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Educational Links 1/23/19

High School Transforms Hallways Into Iconic Book Covers



The Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Prejudice


Poetry and the Civil Rights Movement


Five Ways to Nurture Compassion in Kids



'It's all about controlling students': researchers slam popular app



The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast with teacher Vicki Davis, Cool Cat Teacher



Five Ways to Help Children with ADHD Develop Their Strengths



What is it like to be a kid with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?  Children with ADHD often struggle academically, socially and emotionally. They may be disorganized, forgetful, easily distracted and impulsive.

Monday, December 10, 2018

Educational Links 12/11/18


Projects, Passion, Peers and Play: Seymour Papert's Vision For Learning



10 Quick Questioning Tips



What’s the Difference Between ADD and ADHD?


The debate over students with disabilities, suspensions and race


EdTech Team Giveaway


2018 Education Research Highlights


Education research continues to remind us of the powerful impact teachers have on children. This impact is overwhelmingly positive—the studies we highlight here demonstrate specific ways in which teachers can or already do help students feel a sense of belonging in school and make gains in learning.

Sunday, September 30, 2018

Educational Links 10/1/18


Three Ways To Deal With A Chatty Class

https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/manage-talkative-class

It's not up to teachers to tell parents their child is overweight



Study: Limiting Children's Screen Time Improves Their Memory, Attention and Language Skills

Response: Using Reading Strategies Effectively in Literacy Instruction


National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month: 7 Activities for Secondary Students

reading instruction,

What Does OCD Look Like in the Classroom?


How the Digital Age Is Affecting Students


Five books that give insight into how social media and technology are shaping today’s students and their learning.

Friday, September 28, 2018

Educational Links 9/29/18


How a Composting Initiative Led to the Growth of an Unexpected Learning Space

DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION FOR DIGITAL LEARNERS


State-level policy for computer science education continues to grow


Chicago Schools Lose Millions For Allegedly Not Shielding Students From Sexual Abuse


The Neuroscience of Narrative and Memory


Anxiety in the Classroom


Speaking Skills Top Employer Wish Lists. But Schools Don't Teach Them


Employers say they have trouble finding new hires with good oral-communication skills. But relatively few regular public K-12 schools explicitly teach those skills, and even fewer teach them with real-world workplace scenarios.