More on the Endrew F. vs Douglas County being heard by the Supreme Court

“In a case that could affect the education of 6.7 million children with disabilities, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled to decide whether it should require public schools to do more under a federal law that calls for them to provide a free education that addresses the children’s needs.”

“Students frequently ask: can you help me find a source that’s not biased? When they ask that question we know what they mean, what it shows us the students need to learn is that 1) there are degrees of bias and 2) everyone has bias, so 3) there is no such thing as unbiased. Instead, we need to teach students to recognize what a text creator’s bias is and how or whether that bias negates the usefulness of that source for the student’s purpose.”

“A new form of information manipulation is unfolding in front of our eyes. It is political. It is global. And it is populist in nature. The news media is being played like a fiddle, while decentralized networks of people are leveraging the ever-evolving networked tools around them to hack the attention economy.” —dana boyd 2017

“Students who struggle with reading often lack the thinking skills, such as memory, planning, and the ability to shift focus when necessary, that seem natural to skilled readers. For many teachers, the process of reading is so familiar that they often have difficulty explaining it to students. Much like riding a bicycle, we know we can do it, but explaining how it happens is another story entirely!”

From Katie Martin “It’s critical that we rethink why, what, and how we learn in schools for students to thrive in the information economy of today and tomorrow, not yesterday.”

Excellent new resource for Interrupting Islamophobia: Harvard Education Publishing Group – Blog https://t.co/CEMYhWsHLE

A Padlet board of micro-credentials from Jill Snell

A collection of content and resources on digital badges curated across the web for hastac.org.

This extraordinary article by the editor of the Sri Lankan Sunday Leader was published three days after he was shot dead in Colombo

From The Economist – “Modern society tends to regard itself as somehow better than previous ones, and technological advance reinforces that sense of superiority. But history teaches us that there is nothing new under the sun. Robert Darnton, an historian at Harvard University, who has studied information-sharing networks in pre-revolutionary France, argues that “the marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about the past—even a sense that communication has no history, or had nothing of importance to consider before the days of television and the internet.” Social media are not unprecedented: rather, they are the continuation of a long tradition.”

A real example of a news story on the measles outbreak due to the false news reports that caused parents to stop getting their children the MMR vaccines.

John Oliver discuss the importance of news media and journalism and how their roles are impacted due to social media.

Wonder about this in the context of education.

Formative assessment is the lived, daily embodiment of a teacher’s desire to refine practice based on a keener understanding of current levels of student performance, undergirded by the teacher’s knowledge of possible paths of student development within the discipline and of pedagogies that support such development.

Great resources on the topic of formative assessment

Great overview of how to document learning with mobile technology from Reshan Richards

The New Google SITES: Recommended Tutorials for Teachers https://t.co/NXlOzDERZk #yorkuict #addedict