Saturday, June 25, 2016

Educational Links 6/26/16

Why It’s Imperative to Teach Empathy to Boys

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/06/25/why-its-imperative-to-teach-empathy-to-boys/

How to Create Digital Homework That Students Love

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-04-27-how-to-create-digital-homework-that-students-love?utm_content=bufferae688&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Video: How to Choose Books for Children Who Struggle With Reading

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/learning-at-home/encouraging-reading-writing/video-how-to-choose-books-for-children-who-struggle-with-reading?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

Unleash Your Child’s Inner Bookworm!

https://www.readingrainbow.com/site/blog/2013/10/09/unleash-your-childs-inner-bookworm/

Infographic: Understanding Dyslexia (And Your Students Who Have It)

http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2014/08/02/understanding-dyslexia-infographic

Teacher Tech Leaders: Erin Klein

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2016/06/09/teacher-tech-leaders-erin-klein.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB

To sum it all up, this report offers “seven and seven”—seven promising practices for technology use by underserved students, and seven crucial elements to align when evaluating or adopting technology. With these in mind, think about your classroom, school district, or technology tool and ask yourself—how do we stack up? One of the greatest things about this whole landscape of technology for learning is its constant march forward; tomorrow brings new students, new tools and new goals and along with those, new opportunities for us to get it right.

Trending on MzTeachuh 6/25/16

MzTeachuh's Library: Every Teacher Should Read This Book NOW
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2016/06/mzteachuhs-library-every-teacher-should.html

Teaching Inclusion In A Divided World
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/teaching-inclusion-in-a-divided-world.html?smid=tw-share

Is Teaching Good for You? Yes and No
http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2016/06/mzteachuh-is-teaching-good-for-you-yes.html

Critical factors in helping struggling learners to remember

http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/critical-factors-in-helping-struggling-learners-to-remember/education

Next School Year...We'll Have A STEM Garden

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2016/06/next-school-yearwell-have-stem-garden.html

What's That About Personalized Learning?

http://melanielinktaylor.mzteachuh.org/2016/05/whats-that-about-personalized-learning.html

Summer Reading: 6 Sci-Fi Books to Create Classroom Discussion About Freedom

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/have-sci-fi-freedom-summer-stacey-goodman?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29

Science fiction, fantasy, and other types of speculative fiction can be escapist, but this genre of literature can also take you into the heart of the matter relating to freedom and whether or not human civilization can exist without some form of tyranny.

Spending Saturday with Matisse

Spending Saturday with Matisse: The Lute Henri Matisse Nicolae Szekely, lute - Richard Allison - Pavane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a51M3Aza67A

Friday, June 24, 2016

Educational Links 6/25/16

Is it a Project or an Activity? Project-Based Learning and its Cousins

http://gettingsmart.com/2016/06/project-activity-pbl-cousins/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=Getting%20Smart&utm_content=Is%20it%20a%20Project%20or%20an%20Activity%3F%20Project-Based%20Learning%20and%20its%20Cousins

Teaching Inclusion In A Divided World
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/education/teaching-inclusion-in-a-divided-world.html?smid=tw-share

Summer Reading Program to Boost Comprehension Skills

http://www.additudemag.com/adhd/article/7484.html

Feds Sketch Out Details of Literacy Center for Students With Disabilities

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/speced/2016/06/essa_comprehensive_literacy_center.html

Books Teachers Share: How to See Teaching as an Art

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/06/24/books-teachers-share-how-to-see-teaching-as-an-art/

ESSA Update: 6 Months Later, Parents Get a Say

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/in-the-news/2016/06/23/essa-update-6-months-later-parents-get-a-say?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg

This is a great time to speak up and advocate for your child! Both the U.S. Department of Education and your state department of education want to hear your thoughts on how the new education law can help kids with learning and attention issues.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Summer Song--William Carlos William

Photo by Shane, Wargave, England

Summer Song

Wanderer moon
smiling a
faintly ironical smile
at this
brilliant, dew-moistened
summer morning,–
a detached
sleepily indifferent
smile, a
wanderer’s smile,–
if I should
buy a shirt
your color and
put on a necktie
sky-blue
where would they carry me?

- William Carlos Williams