CSU_TLship

"Auditing Your Books Doing an inventory of your books can be as simple as assessing your library while asking yourself a few questions that touch upon a wide range of diversity,"

Storytelling in any format is about making meaning. While the essence of the stories we tell may remain the same, the ways in which we can now share these stories have changed dramatically with the development of digital communication technologies. Access to simple, easy to use media production tools and resources in conjunction with the potential for immediate and universal online publication has significant implications for literacy thinking and practice.

Regular blog posts with marketing ideas for libraries.

"Every student can read a novel, and teaching students to read novels in school helps them develop critical reading skills for texts and the world. Some students appear unwilling to read because of a variety of challenges both inside and outside the classroom."

"Free Choice Puts Learners in Control -an educational approach used at museums, zoos, and national parks. Essentially, visitors encounter multiple curated invitations that take a wide variety of forms, leaving the choice up to them. No matter their choice, the information is the same even if the method varies. The appeal of this approach is obvious. It provides the learners with choice, a powerful engagement tool for promoting learning when other factors like grades or attendance aren't as motivating."

"One thousand school students worked with their classes to send in 273 questions about climate change. We got together 57 experts to answer them. We asked climate scientists, conservation biologists, fire scientists, chemists, lawyers, engineers, psychologists, oceanographers, Indigenous knowledge specialists and health experts. You can search for questions about a particular topic, or look at the questions we've organised into themes: most asked, looking ahead & taking action. You can also see what questions each class asked. And we've added some resources on what's being done about climate change at a global level, how to handle feelings about climate change, and what you can do to be part of the solution."

"If we are to tackle climate change and adapt to the impacts that are already unavoidable, then children need to be educated for a changing future. Until now, however, this subject matter has been largely missing from the Australian Curriculum."

"Article 12 of the Paris Agreement calls for all countries to deliver "climate change education, training, [and] public awareness"-which is our specialty. While few of us may be climate scientists, materials experts, or energy specialists, climate topics are relevant in almost every aspect of what we teach-whether that's business, law, engineering, social sciences, or humanities. We can and should be raising awareness at our institutions, advancing important ideas, and developing the next climate change leaders"

Interactive map to access links to children's literature awards around the world

"Cultivating learner agency is an endless journey. It not only entails knowing our students as human beings but also requires identifying and unlearning patterns in our teaching that unknowingly engender dependence in learners."

"Whether you are guiding students through content yourself or having students read, research, or watch a video, the WICK charting process gives students an easy-to-implement method to deepen their engagement during this portion of your lesson. Instead of being stuck in sit-and-get mode, they will shift into sit-and-get-and-scrutinize-and-discuss mode as they process the lesson."

"The living world holds answers for us to create a more resilient, regenerative, and beautiful world. It is time to quiet our cleverness, to observe and listen deeply, and reconnect to nature's wisdom by asking, "How does nature solve this?""

"What is accessible color? Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG, lists it under the "Distinguishable" section ("Make it easier for users to see and hear content including separating foreground from background") and recommends the contrast of the foreground and background colors."

"The project began in the summer of 2020 to create a collection of diverse and engaging digital books to support students and teachers navigating remote learning. By the end of 2021, NYC DOE students had borrowed more than one million ebooks and audiobooks. Jacobs had long advocated for increased student access to digital collections, but it was the pandemic-driven pivot to remote learning that presented the opportunity to launch the new initiative."

"More specifically - do YA read young adult fiction? And if so, is it OzYA - aka Australian YA fiction?"

"Contemporary learning frameworks and related methodologies can learn a lot from what we are experiencing with Covid-19. Applying the two features above to project-based learning (PBL) by using a more fluid rather than static, linear model may best prepare students for what the future of learning and work actually looks and feels like."

"Fluid environments involve using multiple modes of communication to convey a complex, interactive message. Information flows smoothly from one media to the next. The strengths of each media create synergy. The result is something more dynamic than could be done in a single medium."

"Transmedia storytelling is a technique of telling a single story or story experience across multiple platforms and formats using current digital technologies."

"Digital native' is a term increasingly used in public discourse to describe the generations of young people who grow up surrounded by digital technologies. The term suggests that young people intuitively know how to use technology and hence have no need for digital education or training. This paper outlines the issues connected with this assumption and provides evidence to demonstrate that it is a dangerous fallacy. Young people do not inherently possess the skills for safe and effective use of technologies, and skills acquired informally are likely to be incomplete. The failure to provide youth with a complete set of skills in a formal manner leads to a new digital divide between digital lifestyle skills and digital workplace skills. The lack of proficiency in the tools needed for today's workforce contributes to an increasingly lost generation, who are unable to realise their full potential as learners, employees, entrepreneurs or citizens using digital technologies."

"We all can agree that one of the most rewarding experiences in teaching is helping that one student find their voice and take a commanding role to contribute to the classroom learning experience. Allowing students the opportunity to engage in discourse that involves externalizing, elaborating on their thinking, and receiving feedback will lead to construction of their knowledge and understanding of a topic. However, these discussions require students to have authority and command over their own thinking to reconstruct ideas and concepts based on their previous knowledge and existing schemas."