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Cara Whitehead

Vocabulary and Spelling City - 2 views

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vocabulary spelling

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  • Tom Stimson on 16 Jun 09
     
    Variety of activities that develop spelling ability
  • Cara Whitehead on 12 Jan 11
     
    Help make spelling time a fun time! SpellingCity.com can be an invaluable part of every child's spelling and vocabulary education with over 42,000 spelling words and customizable sentences.
Rick Beach

Experiencing the iPad - 13 views

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ipad

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  • Rick Beach on 12 Jan 11
     
    lots of iPad apps
Dennis OConnor

ALA | Interview with Keith Curry Lance - 0 views

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ala 21cif library media specialist library2.0 research

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  • A series of studies that have had a great deal of influence on the research and decision-making discussions concerning school library media programs have grown from the work of a team in Colorado—Keith Curry Lance, Marcia J. Rodney, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (2000).
  • Recent school library impact studies have also identified, and generated some evidence about, potential "interventions" that could be studied. The questions might at first appear rather familiar: How much, and how, are achievement and learning improved when . . . librarians collaborate more fully with other educators? libraries are more flexibly scheduled? administrators choose to support stronger library programs (in a specific way)? library spending (for something specific) increases?
  • high priority should be given to reaching teachers, administrators, and public officials as well as school librarians and school library advocates.
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  • Perhaps the most strategic option, albeit a long-term one, is to infiltrate schools and colleges of education. Most school administrators and teachers never had to take a course, or even part of a course, that introduced them to what constitutes a high-quality school library program.
  • Three factors are working against successful advocacy for school libraries: (1) the age demographic of librarians, (2) the lack of institutionalization of librarianship in K–12 schools, and (3) the lack of support from educators due to their lack of education or training about libraries and good experiences with libraries and librarians.
  • These vacant positions are highly vulnerable to being downgraded or eliminated in these times of tight budgets, not merely because there is less money to go around, but because superintendents, principals, teachers, and other education decision-makers do not understand the role a school librarian can and should play.
  • If we want the school library to be regarded as a central player in fostering academic success, we must do whatever we can to ensure that school library research is not marginalized by other interests.    
  • Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11
     
    A great overview of Lance's research into the effectiveness of libraries.  He answers the question: Do school libraries or librarians make a difference?  His answer (A HUGE YES!) is back by 14 years of remarkable research.  The point is proved.  But this information remains unknown to many principals and superintendents.  Anyone interested in 21st century teaching and learning will find this interview fascinating.
Phil Taylor

A Change Is Gonna Come -- Campus Technology - 1 views

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change technology mobilelearning

shared by Phil Taylor on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Mobile technology is going to be an unstoppable change agent in education.
  • Practically every one of our students--rich and poor, wise and less wise--is walking around with a powerful computing device in his or her hand. These students are changing the nature of their education using those devices, whether they realize it or not--and whether we help them or not.
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