Why My Six-Year-Olds Have Digital Portfolios... "How can students learn to think for themselves, make good decisions, develop expertise, and become lifelong learners in a rapidly changing information environment? How can students learn, create, and find meaning from multiple sources of information? These are fundamental questions facing educators in designing schools for 21st-century learners. Guided inquiry is a practical way of implementing an inquiry approach that addresses these 21st-century learning needs for students." Via Monica Nilsson, Anu Ojaranta, Karen Bonanno Mallan, Kerry M. and Foth, Marcus and Greenaway, Ruth and Young, Greg T. (2010) Serious playground : using Second Life to engage high school students in urban planning. Journal of Learning, Media ... 
Earlier this year I was honoured to scrape into Bob Little’s Asia-Pacific’s list of e-learning movers and shakers. This list “is compiled on the basis of a person’s perceive... Think about the physical space of your library. How can you use that space to bring members of the community in? Do you have an area where the PTA can meet? Or a space where a computer can be set up for parent use? 
Numbers don't lie, but a bad chart decision makes it extremely difficult to understand what those numbers mean. 
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Share these tips and tools with your teaching community and I'm sure you will be appreciated. Why not show them how to get organised by providing some professional learning on the tools that are mentioned. Via Karen Bonanno Walker, A; Recker, M; Ye, L; Robertshaw, B; Sellers, L; and Leary, H. (2012) Comparing Technology-Related Teacher Professional Development Designs: a Multilevel Study of Teacher and Student Impacts... UCLA Library College Library How-to Guides... 
Robin Good: Keemix is a web publishing service which allows anyone to create their own web magazine by easily capturing and editing content already available on the web.
You can create multiple channels/topics covering different topics/interests, share items on social networks and have a personalized Keemix web site with your custom look.
From the official site: "Keemix allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues.
Mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively.
A bookmarklet makes it easy to grab any site, article, video, image or text you may run into on the web.
(Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for discovering this) Via Robin Good Lee Rainie will give the keynote presentation on "Learning in the Digital Age: Where Libraries Fit In." Lee will discuss the way people use e-book readers and t... via @rashford Via Buffy J. Hamilton J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. |
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