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Lauren Parren

Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace - ReadWriteThink - 0 views

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    Ellen's recommendation for helping students understand the difference between reading text and reading a web page.  5 40-minute lessons.  Teaching about hyperlinking is a great idea, Ellen.
Ellen Repstad

10 Apps for Learners Who Struggle with Reading and/or Writing | Free Resources from the... - 1 views

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    I have used, and am a fan of, GoodReader! Some of these others look fabulous as well.
Lauren Parren

Core Strategies for Innovation and Reform in Learning | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Wow - for Mt. Abe transformation, this is a must read.
Lauren Parren

How to Rip a DVD With HandBrake | PCWorld - 0 views

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    read up on copyright rules, though
Lauren Parren

An Open Letter to Students: You're the Game Changer in Next-Generation Learning (EDUCAU... - 1 views

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    A must read for all of us interested in transformation and explaining that concept to students.
Lauren Parren

CanTeach: Beginning Reading & Writing - Literacy Centres Ideas - 0 views

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    Recommended by our own local expert Heidi, this site is filled with great ideas for Literacy stations in grades K-2.
Caroline Camara

Reading Is About More Than 'Evidence' - 0 views

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    Commentary "But what does the evidence say?" It was an unusually hot spring day on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and I was visiting a class of 8th graders who had organized themselves into book clubs. The club meetings that day overflowed into the hallway outside the classroom.
Lauren Parren

Supporting the Teacher Maker Movement | Edutopia - 0 views

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    Good read for the ANESU Personalized Learning Support Team
Dustin Corrigan

ACT Forgotten Middle School - 0 views

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    Read chapters 3 and 4 for 8th grade targets and recommendations.
Lauren Parren

Before We Flip Classrooms, Let's Rethink What We're Flipping To | Edutopia - 0 views

  • blending video tutorials about complex concepts into a high-quality project-based curriculum has its place in the learning process.
  • Years of research have proved that an individual's ownership of new knowledge comes through constructive, productive, creative activities, not through passive consumption of instructional tutorials or reading textbooks.
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    INsturct and CONstruct are both crucial to the flipped classroom....or any other!
Lauren Parren

Everything you know about curriculum may be wrong. Really. « Granted, but… - 1 views

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    Funny, really, that this thought-provoking article comes from the king of curricular design, one my district fully embraces.  
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    Interesting! Seems to me this supports the notion of personalized backwards design! I want to re-read this more closely.
Lauren Parren

DesignShare: Imagining the Future of the School Library - 0 views

  • edefine their “value-added” qualities.
  • Growing affluence means that many readers can and will purchase information rather than borrow it.
  • high touch environments
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  • growing body of research that demonstrates the positive effect of school libraries and school librarians on student reading abilities and academic achievement
  • uber information experts.
  • virtual environment.
  • no good reasons to design school libraries that are based on an outdated model
  • nnovative design
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      Yes!  This is exactly what we are thinking!
  • school officials will strive for a philosophical, functional, and physical merger of the school library with the IT program, with a faculty center and spaces for staff development, as well as spaces where teachers can work with (and learn from) students, school librarians, and IT staff; and
  • beyond the library walls
  • viewed primarily as a cost, rather than as an investment,
  • trying to create a good program by simply redesigning space without paying attention to staffing.
  • Teaching people to effectively find and use information to meet their needs.”
  • the 21st century school library must look beyond tradition to the future, to what is needed to help fulfill the educational mission, goals, and objectives of the school.
  • he library will be a sacred space dedicated to honoring those who use the library to meet whatever informational, educational, socialization and personal needs they might have.
  • broadest mission
  • Today’s library is a learning place, not a warehouse space.
  • fluid
  • Libraries must be spaces where multiple activities can take place simultaneously.
  • ifferent types of environments
  • ook at places where kids DO want to be
  • brary staff and a library program in place before facility planning
  • help as you can from an experienced, reputable school library facility design consultant—
  • Involve the stakeholders
  • Be adventurous,
  • complex
  • And I always say, design for the technologies that are available NOW, not those just over the horizon. The horizon might be further away than you anticipate.
  • libraries and librarians are needed now more than ever
  • a mix of print and non-print materials
  • consider providing more space for instructional purposes.
  • As much as possible we should be designing flexible spaces so that space required today for book storage can easily be converted for other purposes in the future.
  • he emphasis must be on the quality of the collection, not the quantity.
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      Is this still true?
  • quiet reflection will remain a need of humans for a very long time.
    • Lauren Parren
       
      Hence our 'requirement' that both teachers and students work on their portfolios at the end of a unit after using the MALT Center.
  • The glut of information that keeps expanding overwhelms most people, and libraries and librarians are needed to help guide and teach students and teachers to cope.
  • November 2nd, 2006
  • knowledge production areas.
Lauren Parren

New Rules - NYTimes.com - 3 views

  • The truth is, if you want a decent job that will lead to a decent life today you have to work harder, regularly reinvent yourself, obtain at least some form of postsecondary education, make sure that you’re engaged in lifelong learning and play by the rules. That’s not a bumper sticker, but we terribly mislead people by saying otherwise.
  • lifelong learning is the key to getting into, and staying in, the middle class.
  • “illiteracy will not be defined by those who cannot read and write, but by those who cannot learn and relearn.” Any form of standing still is deadly.
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  • You have to work harder and smarter and develop new skills faster.
  • “ready now.
  • “ready soon,
  • “work ready.
  • far from ready,
  • on getting more people more education.
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      Laura - added ammunition for our reinvented library.  See second to last paragraph.
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    Friedman does it again!
Pat Mattison

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    Resources on novels
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