Educational Links 5/11/17

The Case Against Summer Countdown Calendars

https://www.weareteachers.com/no-summer-countdown-calendar/

Reading Levels: What Do They Tell You?

http://www.smartkidswithld.org/community/ask-the-experts/reading-levels-what-do-they-tell-you/

Student Rights and the Role of Faculty

https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/teaching-professor-blog/student-rights-role-faculty/

How ‘One Story’ Can Excite Students About Reading And Connecting With Community

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2017/05/10/how-one-story-can-excite-students-about-reading-and-connecting-with-community/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29

The Big List of Educational Grants and Resources

https://www.edutopia.org/grants-and-resources?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Teens Aren’t Too Old to Play

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/teens-not-too-old-play-christina-gil?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Is Artificial Intelligence the Key to Personalized Education?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/artificial-intelligence-key-personalized-education-180963172/

Personalized education will require many different disciplines working together to solve many issues like the one above. The problem we have now in research and academia is the lack of collaborative research concerning AI from multiple fields—science, engineering, medical, arts. Truly powerful AI will require all disciplines working together.

What America Means to Me Tweets of the Day (5/26/12)

...and the pursuit of happiness.

This is what America means to me:

1. A fair chance for everyone to succeed to the best of their ability. Here's a link (this should be old news)--

Dream Act Becomes Law in California

http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/10/dream-act/ 

 

2. Speaking of dreams 

...to be judged by the content of our character.

Thank you, Dr. King, et al, for speaking up for us all and enhancing our liberty.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech 'I have a Dream'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqsUd0b4vHY&noredirect=1 

 3. Choice in government through voting

If you are in California, this is where you can register to vote, or update your information. Nowadays, you can vote no matter your ethnicity, and even if you are female.

That was some kind of hard work to gain the right to vote in America. Thank you everyone, I appreciate your validation in getting me the vote even before I was born.

http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm

4. Sacrificing for what you believe in to the extent of helping other countries become democracies.

Pfc. Haviland John Link (Uncle Johnny)

 My mom's brother was killed at Bloody Ridge, North Korea, with UN forces in 1951. He assisted in the liberation of South Korea; maybe the day will come all Korea will be a united democracy. Our family still misses the singing, boogie-woogie piano playing jokester Johnny. 

This is a link to the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

http://www.vfw.org/ 

 

                                                          And America means so much more. 

                                            This is Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

              'No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.'                                           So said General Douglas MacArthur.