Educational Links 2/26/20

The Secret to Classroom Management—No Matter Where You Teach

https://www.weareteachers.com/classroom-management-title-i/?fbclid=IwAR19bIuzXNlbToqpKDQ5NbAaGBWqJPv42a73ypprae6OaFQFrNOSVQSuZo0

#ThinkPossible: Not Giving Up on Disruptive Students Even When We Really, Really Want To

https://www.edutopia.org/discussion/thinkpossible-not-giving-disruptive-students-even-when-we-really-really-want?fbclid=IwAR08PAq9i35yomj2uSbR66xTyIw49-zKAfpLOjdqM43g99guRcbQ3pp9D_U

How to Motivate Students in the Classroom

https://www.teachhub.com/top-12-ways-motivate-students?fbclid=IwAR2tmUibWmGae61qNQybdo3i7voNBZY0HMKUOgBJNfyMAAjO6txNhKslPu8

Moving Students From Consumers To Creators To Contributors

https://www.teachthought.com/project-based-learning/moving-students-consumers-creators-contributors/?fbclid=IwAR2y2PdJvoUckXB8U_wTT8cPV0BxM889bU1s7OZgSUt-MXGPbQFaqOAQ1Eg

Five Apps Students Can Use To Make Podcasts

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55393/five-apps-students-can-use-to-make-podcasts?fbclid=IwAR3A37A5-ELhu21woeDMNKAZNveMKEkqvrCuIxQsV5h6exDKbK4LpRt5SYg

3 QUESTIONS TO KICKSTART UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING IN YOUR CLASSROOM

https://www.thinkinclusive.us/3-questions-to-kickstart-universal-design-for-learning-in-your-classroom/?fbclid=IwAR1i4xJ46SoIl1xCcYuF3k6OBnhrAWf1qv5affIFxWBkG2YQnYJr8WOvdQo

Game-Based Learning in Middle School Math

https://www.edutopia.org/article/game-based-learning-middle-school-math?fbclid=IwAR0T0UktihwP0Fp2w3O4UQec3a_Bdzo8vzNzh5znbz2gZtecnDFLL-uuhbo

Working with teachers, researchers created free online math games that encourage students to persist in grappling with difficult concepts.

Educational Links 3/11/17

Flipping Lesson Design: Moving The Learning Objective To The End

http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/flipping-lesson-design-moving-the-learning-objective-to-the-end/?utm_content=buffer5ba31&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The fastest way to failure for kids

http://www.raepica.com/2017/03/09/fastest-way-failure-kids/

5 IDEAS FOR USING GAME-BASED LEARNING IN YOUR CLASSROOM TODAY

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/05-5-ideas-using-game-based-learning-classroom-today/?nabe=6224726523641856:0&utm_content=buffer4ab99&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2F

Neurodiversity: What You Need to Know

https://www.understood.org/en/friends-feelings/empowering-your-child/building-on-strengths/neurodiversity-what-you-need-to-know?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Don't Use Inclusion as an Excuse for Bad Behavior

http://jewishspecialneeds.blogspot.com/2017/03/dont-use-inclusion-as-excuse-for-bad.html?m=1&utm_content=buffer15fe7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

13 Things All Teachers Should Know About Type 1 Diabetes

https://www.weareteachers.com/13-things-all-teachers-should-know-about-type-1-diabetes/?utm_source=FB&utm_campaign=JDRF_1702_LeadProgram&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=Article_01

Be Human When Providing Accommodations For Your Students

http://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/human-providing-accommodations-students/?utm_content=buffera644a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Our biases against accommodations make us believe that in order to be fair in a classroom of students everyone has to be given the same set of tools. Yet if we took away the individualistic mandates to measure success and instead looked at the class as a society working towards a common goal, do accommodations seem unfair? Do you really care the individuals in a company made your car, sofa, or TV.  You rarely think about how someone mastered the art of the products you purchase. Did someone on the assembly line have one arm? Did someone use a calculator while someone else did not?

Educational Links 12/19/16

Nobel Laureates Can Teach Kids to Persevere

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/nobel-laureates-can-teach-kids-to-persevere-suzie-boss?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

President Trump’s Education Agenda

http://www.edudemic.com/trumps-education-agenda/

How Are Schools Changing? EdSurge Unveils Final Chapter of Yearlong 'State of Edtech' Report

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-12-07-how-are-schools-changing-edsurge-unveils-final-chapter-of-yearlong-state-of-edtech-report?utm_content=buffer9c5cf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

5-Minute Film Festival: The Best Education Parodies of 2016

https://www.edutopia.org/article/5-minute-film-festival-best-education-parodies-2016

The 8 Tremendous Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset

http://www.inc.com/angelina-zimmerman/the-8-tremendous-ways-for-developing-a-growth-mindset.html?utm_content=buffer719f3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

White House Report: The Continuing Need To Rethink Discipline

http://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/white-house-report-continuing-need-rethink-discipline?utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_name=&utm_source=govdelivery&utm_term=

EPIC GUIDE TO GAME BASED LEARNING

http://www.coolcatteacher.com/epic-guide-game-based-learning/?utm_content=buffer98543&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Games are fun. We can use them to teach. It isn’t that hard. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. It can ignite your classroom too. In this post, I’ll share what I’m doing in my classroom. Additionally, I’ll give you 100+ of my favorite game based learning resources. These links and ideas will jumpstart your journey. 

Educational Links 10/31/16

 

 Focus on What Can Be Done

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2016/10/focus_on_what_can_be_done.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Inclusion

http://www.specialeducationguide.com/pre-k-12/inclusion/ 

Small Group Instruction in the Flipped Classroom

http://flglobal.org/small-group-instruction-in-the-flipped-classroom/ 

The Big Brain: A Cooperative Learning Protocol 

http://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/big-brain-protocol 

Mindful Awareness: Treating ADHD with Meditation

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/1475.html 

Everyone Is A Novice With Technology

http://www.teachthought.com/the-future-of-learning/everyone-novice-technology/ 

3 Ways to Use Game-Based Learning

https://www.edutopia.org/article/3-ways-use-game-based-learning-matthew-farber 

Good games—as opposed to candy-coated, multiple-choice quiz games—provide immersive experiences for students. Like novels, films, plays, and other media, games can be high-quality materials a teacher uses to enable students to access the curriculum. In my research, classrooms with high-functioning game-based learning are not ones in which the teacher hands a game to students to play. Nor do the teachers gamify their rooms, turning them into a game. Instead, effective game-based classrooms involve each of these components. Students are provided with gameful learning experiences driven by play.

 

What'dja Thinkin' About Ed Tech?

Here are several thoughtful articles involving the use of educational technology from three major educational websites that daily provide thoughtful articles on education: Mind/Shift http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/, Edutopia http://www.edutopia.org/, and Edudemic http://www.edudemic.com/.

1. Five Research-Driven Education Trends At Work in Classrooms

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/five-research-driven-education-trends-at-work-in-classrooms/ 

2. The Flipped Mobile Classroom: Learning "Upside Down"

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/flipped-classroom-learning-upside-down-beth-holland 

3. How Digital Learning Is Becoming The Fourth Literacy

http://www.edudemic.com/digital-learning-literacy/ 

4. Two Case Studies: How Connected Educators Can Transform Schools

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/two-case-studies-how-connected-educators-can-transform-schools/ 

5. How To Become A Learning Teacher

http://www.edudemic.com/learning-teacher/

6. My Journey into Connectedness

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/my-journey-into-connectedness-rafranz-davis 

7. Five Research-Driven Education Trends At Work in Classrooms

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/five-research-driven-education-trends-at-work-in-classrooms/ 

8. Defining Paperless 2.0

http://www.edudemic.com/defining-paperless-2-0/

9. Game-Based Learning in Practice

http://www.edutopia.org/blogs/beat/game-based-learning 

10. What Can We Learn From the Global Effort Around Mobile Learning?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/what-can-we-learn-from-the-global-effort-around-mobile-learning/ 

 11.. Should Coding be the "New Foreign Language" Requirement?

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/coding-new-foreign-language-requirement-helen-mowers 

12. How To Become A Learning Teacher

http://www.edudemic.com/learning-teacher/ 

 

...and that is the question.

 

 

Books! Back to School and the 21st Century Tweets of the Day 9/3/13

5 Inspiring Stories Of Kids Helping Kids

http://blog.firstbook.org/

1. 5 Inspiring Stories of Kids Helping Kids

http://blog.firstbook.org/2013/08/29/5-ways-kids-are-raising-money-for-books-for-back-to-school/ 

5 Inspiring Stories Of Kids Helping Kids

5 Inspiring Stories Of Kids Helping Kids

2. Back to School: Goal Setting With Your Students

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/back-to-school-goal-setting-students-teacher-maurice-elias?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blog-settinggoals 

3. Struggle Means Learning: Difference in Eastern and Western Cultures

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/11/struggle-means-learning-difference-in-eastern-and-western-cultures/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=fbt&utm_content=buffer05f05&utm_medium=facebook 

4. Back-to-School: How a Dad Stays Positive

http://www.ncld.org/ld-insights/blogs/back-to-school-dad-stays-positive 

5.  There’s More to Game-Based Learning than Meets the Eye 

 http://www.edtechmagazine.com/k12/article/2013/08/theres-more-game-based-learning-meets-eye?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdTechK12+%28EdTech+Magazine%3A+Focus+on+K-12%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

6. Parents: Start with the A

 http://www.edutopia.org/blog/parents-start-with-the-A-matt-levinson?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

 7. B+ is just fine 

http://www.salon.com/1996/07/08/lamott960624/ 

8. Creating The 21st Century Brain For 21st Century Learning

http://www.teachthought.com/learning/creating-the-21st-century-brain-for-21st-century-learning/ 

 

 

 

 

Helping Kids Be the Best They Can Be Tweets of the Day 3/16/13

1. One Advantage of Homeschooling: Teens Can Sleep Later

http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/03/one-advantage-of-homeschooling-teens-can-sleep-later/#comment-28021 

2. Are You Down With or Done With Homework? 

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2013/03/are-you-down-with-or-done-with-homework.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

3. 5 Steps To Help Kids Learn to Control Their Emotions

http://www.ahaparenting.com/_blog/Parenting_Blog/post/How_Kids_Learn_to_Control_Their_Emotions/ 

4. 6 Basic Benefits Of Game-Based Learning

http://www.teachthought.com/video-games-2/6-basic-benefits-of-game-based-learning/ 

5. How Early Can Autism Be Diagnosed?

http://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2013/03/15/how-early-can-autism-be-diagnosed?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AutismSpeaksBlog+%28Autism+Speaks+|+Official+Blog%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo 

6. The Importance of Play in Preparing for Standardized Testing

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/play-with-standardized-test-prep-matt-levinson?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

7. Five Fun St. Patrick's Day Activities for Your Class 

http://www.teachhub.com/five-fun-st-patricks-day-activities-your-class