Education Links 10/9/16

Slow Processing Speed and Anxiety: What You Need to Know 

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/information-processing-issues/slow-processing-speed-and-anxiety-what-you-need-to-know 

'It’s often forgotten: humour is a brilliant way of mastering classroom management'

https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/its-often-forgotten-humour-a-brilliant-way-mastering-classroom 

Metacognition: Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains

http://www.bamradionetwork.com/ascd-learn-teach-lead-radio/4080-metacognition-teaching-students-to-drive-their-brains 

Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice: Check Out These Autumnal Resources

http://blog.discoveryeducation.com/blog/2016/10/06/pumpkin-spice-and-everything-nice-check-out-these-autumnal-resources/ 

Help Your Child Focus at School When ADHD Gets In the Way

http://www.additudemag.com/slideshow/118/slide-1.html 

The Benefits of Art for Kids

http://artfulparent.com/2016/01/the-benefits-of-art-for-kids.html 

How Edtech Tools Evolve

https://www.edsurge.com/research/special-reports/state-of-edtech-2016/builders?utm_content=buffer72de6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer 

Great inventors have proclaimed technology’s potential to transform education before. In 1913, Thomas Edison asserted that “books will soon be obsolete in the public schools,” replaced by motion pictures. Nearly a century later, Steve Jobs, according to his biographer Walter Isaacson, believed print textbooks were “ripe for digital destruction.”

Educational Links 10/8/16

How Play Wires Kids’ Brains For Social and Academic Success

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/08/07/how-play-wires-kids-brains-for-social-and-academic-success/ 

Poverty Matters, But Not the Way You Think

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2016/10/poverty_matters_but_not_the_way_you_think.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB 

Why Busing Didn't End School Segregation

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/06/496411024/why-busing-didnt-end-school-segregation 

Study Finds Students Of All Races Prefer Teachers Of Color

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/07/496717541/study-finds-students-of-all-races-prefer-teachers-of-color 

Desk Arrangement: Four Corners 

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/desk-arrangement-for-collaboration-nea 

Now I Get What It’s Like to Have Executive Functioning Issues 

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/what-i-wish-id-known-sooner/2014/11/07/now-i-get-what-its-like-to-have-executive-functioning-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg 

Fostering Identity Safety in School

http://www.edutopia.org/article/creating-identity-safe-school-becki-cohn-vargas?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow 

An environment where students are not bullied based on their race or other aspects of identity can be intentionally cultivated both inside and outside of the classroom.

Van Gogh: Les Alyscamps; Autumn Leaves and Barbra Streisand

  Van Gogh: Les Alyscamps: Falling Autumn Leaves

Since he painted this in France, here is Barbra Streisand singing 'Autumn Leaves' in French, from Je m'appelle Barbra (1966) :

How beautiful, not just her voice.

Barbra Streisand - Autumn Leaves 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiRvvorZ4ic 

 

Educational Links 10/7/16

Does Independent Reading Time During the School Day Create Lifelong Readers?

http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/shanahan-literacy/does-independent-reading-time-during-school-day-create-lifelong-readers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReadingRockets_TeachingReading+%28Reading+Rockets%3A+Teaching+Reading+Resources%29

6 Baseball-Themed Classroom Activities for the World Series

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/world-series-classroom-activities-matthew-davis?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%20EdutopiaNewContent%20%28Edutopia%29 

Supreme Court to Hear Special Education Case

http://www.specialneedsdigest.com/2016/10/supreme-court-to-hear-special-education.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FLUdSt+%28Special+Needs+Digest%29 

From Dabbling to Doing: 6 Tools That Excite Kids About Coding

https://ww2.kqed.org/mindshift/2016/10/06/from-dabbling-to-doing-6-tools-that-excite-kids-about-coding/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Using Technology to Empower Science

http://blog.mimio.com/using-technology-to-empower-science 

Engaging Reluctant Children in Art Play

http://special-ism.com/engaging-reluctant-children-in-art-play/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Special-ism+%28Special-ism%29 

A Step-by-Step Guide to ‘Untethered’ Faculty Development

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2016-10-06-a-step-by-step-guide-to-untethered-faculty-development 

The way faculty teach is drastically different from what it was even five years ago. It’s now the norm for them to lead face-to-face, blended and online classes. Faculty development is in dire need of transformation to reflect the realities of teaching in digital, online environments.

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