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Lisa Nocita

Mission 4 | Mission US | THIRTEEN - 0 views

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history geography immigration Social_Studies_History_&_Geography

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  • Lisa Nocita on 18 Feb 15
     
    City of Immigrants is set in New York City in 1907. Players take on the role of a fourteen year-old Jewish immigrant named Lena Brodsky. Lena is from Russia and she arrived in New York after her older brother who came to New York a few years earlier and sent money home to buy passage for family members. Lena is now trying to earn money to send home so that her parents can come to New York. Throughout the game you meet other people in Lena's life in New York who are faced with tough choices just like she is. Applications for Education City of Immigrants could be a great game for middle school students and some high school students to play to learn about the challenges that faced immigrants to New York in the early 1900's. What I really like about the game is that players meet the various people involved in Lena's life. Meeting those people could help students understand the community dynamics common to immigrant neighborhoods at the time. The Mission U.S. games are available to use in your web browser. Some of the games will work on iPads and Android tablets. The Mission U.S. website offers an educators section that includes printable lists of vocabulary terms, writing prompts, and post-game discussion prompts.
Lisa Nocita

Where is...? A geolocation game - 1 views

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  • Lisa Nocita on 14 Apr 14
     
    This game uses a common concept for geography games; the name of a city is presented to the players and they have to click the map to guess where the city is located. Players are given immediate feedback on their accuracy in the form of a measurement, in kilometers, of the distance between their guesses and the correct answers.
Linda Corey

PA State Legislators Hold Hearing on Status of School Libraries | School Library Journal - 0 views

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school libraries libraries advocay

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  • PA State Legislators Hold Hearing on Status of School Libraries
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  • “When you remove a qualified librarian from the library, I believe that the library begins to cease to exist,” said Graig Henshaw, a librarian from the York City School District .
  • “When you remove a qualified librarian from the library, I believe that the library begins to cease to exist,” said Graig Henshaw, a librarian from the York City School District
  • “When you remove a qualified librarian from the library, I believe that the library begins to cease to exist,” said Graig Henshaw, a librarian from the York City School District.
  • while Pennsylvania doesn’t require librarians for public schools, it mandates them for private schools and prisons.
  • Former students
  • Kristy Oren said her high school librarian introduced her to databases and helped her prepare for university-level research
  • During Sean Gregory’s four years at Danville High School, he “noticed a subtle but steady decrease in that trademark ease of access” that he came to take for granted in the library when its staff was reduced and eliminated.
  • Representative Paul Clymer, who chairs the Education Committee, saying, “I was concerned to learn through the study that, on average, staffing, funding, access, and resources are inadequate for achieving optimal benefit from these specialized educators.”
  • The study outlined six recommendations, which included restoring the state-level Division of School Library Media Services in the Commonwealth Libraries and appointing a director; creating an information literacy curriculum; having an annual assessment of school library programs; making the state Guidelines for Pennsylvania School Library Programs available to administrators; and providing guidance in the selection of adaptive technologies for the visual disabled and materials in languages other than English
  • Linda Corey on 28 Aug 12
     
    "Meanwhile, Sandra Zelno of the Education Law Center shared school library initiatives from other states and pointed out that while Pennsylvania doesn't require librarians for public schools, it mandates them for private schools and prisons."
  • Linda Corey on 28 Aug 12
     
    PA looks at school libraries and librarians
Lisa Nocita

The Future 2050 - 0 views

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design_learning_challenge design_learning design_learning_network

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  • Lisa Nocita on 01 Mar 14
     
    Design learning challenge Kansas City design week
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ImageQuiz - 1 views

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quiz assessment quizzes formative imagequiz

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  • Lisa Nocita on 25 Feb 14
     
    free service enabling quiz creation based on any images you own or that you find online. Students answer ImageQuiz questions by clicking on a portion of your chosen picture. For example, if you use an uploaded image of a map, you can design questions that require users to click on states, cities, or countries for their responses. Creating an ImageQuiz is easy. First give your quiz a title, upload a picture, then draw outlines around the portions of the picture that feature your answers. Write your questions and try out your quiz. Share the URL.
Linda Corey

The Other America: Giving Our Poorest Children the Same Opportunities as Our Richest | ... - 0 views

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reading libraries librarians

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  • In my new book, Fire in the Ashes, I catch up with all those
  • In my new book, Fire in the Ashes, I catch up with all those kids, many of whom I came to know when they were only six or eight years old. They talked to me about the struggles they went through, which were often hardest in their adolescent years. Most are in their twenties now. As they look back on their formative years, they speak repeatedly of books that first awakened their appetite for reading—by which I mean real books, books that children read for pleasure
  • children, their culture, too.
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  • children, their culture, too.
  • children, their culture,
  • First of all,  no matter what the economic ups and downs may be at any given moment, public school libraries in destitute communities need not just sufficient but extravagant funding. If there’s a single thing our state and federal governments could do to stir up a love of learning in our poorest children, it would be to take a good big chunk of the massive sum of money that’s now being wasted on the testing industry and use it, instead, to flood our students’ lives with the joys and mysteries of authentic culture—and not only Western culture but, in the case of, for instance, Hispanic children, their culture, too.
  • children, their culture
  • children, their culture, too.
  • children, their culture, too.
  • no matter what the economic ups and downs may be at any given moment, public school libraries in destitute communities need not just sufficient but extravagant funding. If there’s a single thing our state and federal governments could do to stir up a love of learning in our poorest children, it would be to take a good big chunk of the massive sum of money that’s now being wasted on the testing industry and use it, instead, to flood our students’ lives with the joys and mysteries of authentic culture—and not only Western culture but, in the case of, for instance, Hispanic children, their culture, too.
  • If I had the power, I’d redirect another big chunk of the money that’s now enriching testing corporations and make certain that every inner-city school has its own full-time librarian, and one whose passion about books is contagiously exciting to young people.
  • Linda Corey on 28 Aug 12
     
    Support for reading
Lisa Nocita

Kansas City Mock Literary Awards | Information about the Mock Newbery, Caldecott and Pr... - 0 views

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mock_newbery_2012 mock awards

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  • Lisa Nocita on 29 Nov 11
     
    "Everyone is welcome at the mock awards. Please read as many of the books on the discussion list as possible, if there are others you think should be considered please bring them with you and they will be discussed as time allows. Before the discussion, please take a moment to review the criteria for the official Caldecott, King, Newbery and Printz awards."
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