Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning. Via EdTechSandyK, Tom Perran, John Evans 
Creativity, Innovation, Team Building, Leadership, Brainstorming, Idea Champions... 
Go way beyond Internet safety. Turn students into great digital citizens.
Every day, your students are tested with each post, search, chat, text message, file download, and profile update. Will they connect with like minds or spill TMI to the wrong people?
Will they behave creatively or borrow ideas recklessly? Will they do the right thing or take shortcuts?
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Via Gust MEES, Ann Vega, Dr. Laura Sheneman 
The change has come more slowly to books than it came to music or to business correspondence, but by now it feels inevitable. The digital era is upon us. The Twilights and Freedoms of 2025 will be consumed primarily as e-books. Via JennyP 
All my life, librarians have been my enablers. They presented me with a wide choice of nefarious temptations, slyly accompanied by the line, “Oh, you'll enjoy this!”, until I helplessly surrendered and took the books home with ...
Talk given at the Operating at Webscale: Transforming Library Workflows event at UCLA, 15 December 2011. Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
Let's consider the things that TED Ed asks the learner to do: watch a video, take a multiple-choice quiz, write brief constructed responses, and read through a bibliography. If I took the name TED out of this scenario, I would suggest that many educators would say that this format is exactly the type of traditional assessment that project-based, inquiry-driven, personalized learning is at odds with. It is perfectly fine to watch a video. It is perfectly fine to view a lecture. It is perfectly fine to quiz yourself on what you remember from the video or the lecture. It is perfectly fine to write a brief response about a big question. But let's not call that a lesson. That's just a starting point. Via Buffy J. Hamilton
Librarians have been doing information literacy instruction for years - now we can tell you how to handle your data, too!
Librarians as leaders. One of my bosses said to me that you should never ask someone who works for you to do anything you wouldn't do. I still use this as one of my guiding principles in staff management.
I woke this morning to a grey sky, and many pieces of writing about teacher librarianship that my students have submitted as their first dip into a new profession. The grey sky seems to symbolise t... Via Joyce Valenza 
De-cluttering your home and mind won’t just help your personal life, it will positively affect your work life, too. Via Buffy J. Hamilton |
Friday Dialogue from Your Two Favorite (#QRcodes extend learning and teach media literacy.)...
"Literacy used to be a very subtle concept that meant linguistic sophistication. It used to denote a skill that could be developed to arbitrary levels of refinement through practice. Literacy meant using mastery over language — both form and content — to sustain a relentless and increasingly sophisticated pursuit of greater meaning. It was about an appreciative, rather than instrumental use of language. Language as a means of seeing rather than as a means of doing. Via JennyP 
Phil Johnson writes in Forbes about the unlikely (and quite wonderful) success of the Harvard Book Store, an absolutely terrific independent bookstore that was bought by Jeff Mayersohn, a high-tech entrepreneur who was determined to exploit the... Via Buffy J. Hamilton 
Having trouble finding that perfect book? Listen to our podcasts for some great book recommendations. 
"Some of the Internet's best resources dedicated exclusively to educational uses of the iPad." " Thanks Kelly for including iPads in Education in this list! - JE Via John Evans 
15 Vintage Photos of Librarians... 
Joyce Valenza: See the Glog!School Library Websites: Examples of Effective Practice: school libraries | Glogster EDU - 21st century multimedia tool for educators, teachers and students... Via Dennis T OConnor, Dr. Laura Sheneman 
Who Let the Librarians Out? — Presentation Available. by davidshumaker. I've just posted my presentation to the Texas Library Association, entitled “Who Let the Librarians Out? How Digital Content Is Freeing Librarians for ...
Over the past 18 years, I’ve done my share of “traditional” teaching: I chose a book, I decided how many pages my students would read each night, I wrote questions to see if they read the b... 
See how much you know about children's literature! Every day you get an answer right, you'll be entered into our monthly drawing for a $20 gift certificate to Amazon.com!
"n hindsight 60 apps in 60 minutes was a bit ambitious. I kind of felt as if we were auctioning off apps. (Perhaps a Nifty Fifty pack would have been a better fit.) For those of you who missed our session…or those of you who attended and caught whiplash from the sheer speed of it, here is a list of all of the apps we (John Samuelson and I) featured." Via John Evans, Ann Vega, Martin (Marty) Smith, michel verstrepen, Juergen Wagner, Dr. Laura Sheneman |
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