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"As I mentioned in my previous post, this morning I gave a short presentation on mobile learning activities. One of the activities that I included in the presentation included the use of iNaturalist (previously reviewed here) and Project Noah to get your students outside and recording observations of nature."
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Many educators are explicitly teaching online research skills, such as how to evaluate a website's credibility, how to use precise keywords, and how to better mine search engines. Delete the scoop?
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These web resources have great promise and are especially useful when a student is not required to use a personal email address for access. Delete the scoop?
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To encourage boys' reading, look to book clubs Omaha World-Herald Children's authors and book publishers, as well as librarians and teachers, have responded by producing and stocking more boy-friendly materials, including action-adventure, humor... Via Joyce Valenza Delete the scoop?
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May 19, 11:35 AM
Pointers for modern school library design and facilities! Delete the scoop?
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What are the keys designing a project-based learning classroom? It starts with the teacher.
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Learning Spaces Help Set the Tone -- One of the defining characteristics of a PBL classroom is the emphasis on group work: Students work with their peers to solve problems. That means the space must be organized in a way that supports collaboration — neat lines of forward-facing desks are the enemy. In a multi-disciplinary elementary classroom, portable floor mats or cushions are an excellent alternative to traditional desks, at least during group work periods. Delete the scoop?
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In her TED talk, "Gaming Can Make a Better World," author and researcher Jane McGonigal posits that in game worlds people are "motivated to do something that matters, inspired to collaborate, to coo Delete the scoop?
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April 23, 4:55 PM
Great post! I especially like the part about setting goals... I want all of our goals to be "user-centered" goals!
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Last month a Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) directive seemed to require that copies of Marjane Satrapi’s memoir Persepolis be removed from classrooms an...
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"Librarians have faith in readers, regardless of their age, to take what they need from texts. We work to find reasons to include materials in our libraries’ collections. A school librarian friend of mine, who has fought her own battles with censorship, told me, “Wouldn’t it be a wonderful thing if ,when one wants to raise that ugly word of ‘censor,’ he would first be required to state the positive sides of a read? Where it could be used? How it might benefit someone?” Delete the scoop?
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This is a useful site where science games are annotated and reviewed by users including eduactors and gamers. Delete the scoop?
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Why doesn’t the research on school libraries resonate with educational policymakers and funding allocators? (Library: An interesting read on school libraries. Via Karen Bonanno
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April 20, 2:29 AM
"Four decades of research from Canada, the U.S., and Australia indicates that well-staffed, well-stocked, and well-used school libraries are correlated with increases in student achievement on the order of 4 percent to 20 percent, as measured on student performance on standardized tests, overall school performance, and student performance in reading comprehension and in academic subjects.[1] Other studies have shown improvements in students’ attitudes towards reading and in the collaborative nature of school culture.[2]"
Desicions are obviously made blindfolded... Very sad reading, still hoping that the research results would in the long run make a difference. We need to be more vigorous in advocating! Greeyings, Anu 
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April 20, 3:27 AM
We need to keep fighting and collating evidence. We are necessary so we need to shout louder!
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The Facebook generation is fed up with Facebook. That's according to a report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center, which surveyed 802 teens between the ages of 12 and 17 last September to produce a 107-page report on their online habits. Via Reijo Kupiainen, Anu Ojaranta
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Social media and text messaging have assumed a dominant role in communication among adolescent society. And, as common in teenage social environments, these circumstances often involve online teasing and harassing. Delete the scoop?
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Educator and author Jessica Lahey reads Shakespeare and Dickens aloud to her seventh- and eighth-graders, complete with all the voices. Her students love bein
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“The first reason to read aloud to older kids is to consider the fact that a child’s reading level doesn’t catch up to his listening level until about the eighth grade,” said Trelease, referring to a 1984 study performed by Dr. Thomas G. Sticht showing that kids can understand books that aretoo hard to decode themselves if they are read aloud. “You have to hear it before you can speak it, and you have to speak it before you can read it. Reading at this level happens through the ear.”
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Yesterday Google released a trove of timelapse images that offers, it believes, 'the most comprehensive picture of our changing planet ever made available to the public.' Featuring a quarter-century of images taken from space by NASA and the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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MapStory empowers a global community to organize knowledge about the world spatially and temporally. With MapStory, people of all kinds turn into Storytellers who can create, share, and collaborate on MapStories and ultimately improve our understanding of global dynamics, worldwide, over the course of history. Via Nik Peachey
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This one has a lot of potential! 
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April 28, 10:07 AM
The City of Naples WEB APP used a storyboard which tell the story of naples development via a map--- map story is similiar. Should make us think how we need to get georgraphy back into schools integrated with history and ecnonmics. Delete the scoop?
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A place to join a network of authors willing to Skype into classrooms to speak with teachers and children.
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A great resource to find authors who will Skype with students at school. I can't wait to use this! Delete the scoop?
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Visit this site to learn all the tips and tricks for using Google Earth as a teaching tool.
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Satellite images from Google Earth's archive are now being used to see the impact of climate change over time. This site offers some great instructional ideas, plans and free downloadable layers (kwl) files that can be used with Google Earth to create interactive presentations. Cool. Delete the scoop?
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A list of the best quotes about libraries and librarians, together with quotes that you can share as images. Via Dr. Steve Matthews
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This will come in hand! 
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April 21, 8:48 AM
Just sent this out to my LMSs. This is so true! They all have a servant's heart. Delete the scoop?
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