The Slothful Cybrarian

The effective use of technology is an important part of an Avenues education, making digital literacy a key skill for both students and faculty.

Google's Free Lesson Plans - Showcasing a massive online library of free lesson plans in all subjects for classroom teachers of all levels from the internet giant, Google.

Google Plus is both a social destination and a social layer over Google's products and services.

27 Actions That Promote Self-Directed Learning

So I’m trying to better understand how people learn–not now they’re taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies–only not really strategies. Learning actions, or cognitive actions.

Self-directed and social learning will undoubtedly be at the core of any sort of future learning–both near and far future. But to improve learning in both self-directed and teacher-centered learning environments, it can be illuminating to look past the activities, projects, and courses to try to see what sort of brain-level actions learners are performing. Like push-ups, wind sprints, and weight training are physical actions that help train an athlete’s body, what kind of cognitive actions train a learner’s mind?

Search Tools Search is the essential 21st century skill. Developing search literacy in students should be the priority of our education. Teachers and students need the ability, search tools and str...

The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model: wendell berry, digital literacy, citizenship, transfer

A Guide to Citing Images, a new infographic from our friends at NoodleTools, offers a MLA-aligned flow chart to guide researchers through a variety of image citation situations.  But it is not just about image documentation.

It asks learners to ask themselves a few important questions before using and documenting images that were born digital.  

NoodleTools labels an image born digital if: it was created in digital form, or if you do not know where the image itself is physically stored. 

The 101 best web 2.0 tools for teachers based on functionality, application, ease of use and compatibility with educational technology.

Web 2.0 is the terminology assigned to define websites that have been refurbished from an earlier version of the internet.

Since most Web 2.0 features are free, websites such as Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. have developed remarkably fast and, as these sites grow, more innovative features are being added using new technologies. In fact, Web 2.0 will continue to grow in the future. 

The simultaneous growth of these new trends is outside the scope of Web 2.0’s definition and this is where the next generation of the internet will begin. The third generation of the internet – the Web 3.0 – will completely alter social networking.

‘Web 3.0’ is a network of information that can be routed both directly or indirectly using computers and includes television quality video, three dimensional reproductions of images, enhanced reality, man-made semantic barometers, and the all-encompassing sensors – wireless and broadband.

Read More Here: http://www.killerstartups.com/startups-tools-and-guides/future-of-web-2-0-websites/

In the Digital Age, What Becomes of the Library?

International Conference on ICT for Development, Education and Training. An Annual Event for Building eLearning Capacities in Africa.

Today's connected students may be more digitally aware than ever thanks to mobile technology, but this handy infographic shows a number of interesting ways that technology is being used in educational settings.

Download an 11X17 version of the Developing 21st Century Critical Thinkers Infographic by Mentoring Minds.com.

Chances are, when you’ve been assigned a research paper, your first idea is that you’ll to do a quick search on Google. Perhaps you’ve been surprised when your instructor says that Googling for resources is not allowed.

21 Literacy Resources For The Digital Teacher on Web 2.0 and Thinking Skills curated by Made Hery Santosa (21 Literacy Resources For The Digital Teacher | @scoopit via @BethDichter http://t.co/VHiu9kTGa9)...

Is there a right and a wrong way to teach social media in schools? Some administrators think so. Many schools across the country have banned the use...

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