When Alice Ozma was in the fourth grade, her family was going through a rough patch. Her parents had just split up, and her older sister had recently left for college. Ozma was suddenly spending a lot more time alone with her dad, Jim Brozina, an elementary school librarian. So Ozma and her father made a pledge: to read together every single night for 100 days.
This professional development tutorial is brought to you by the California School Library Association (CSLA). On the following pages, you will learn the tools of the new Internet: Web 2.0 tools that bring our kids in touch with the entire world through social networking, wikis, video, podcasting, and game sites.
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Let's teachers and students create sets of flashcards that you can share with others. Can also do searches for existing sets. Great for subjects that use images as well (for example rock and mineral identification in earth and space science)
"The purpose of this website is to provide a place for
K-12 school library media specialists to learn a
little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services,
to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them."
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I don't work in K-12 schools, but from what I've heard and read, it sounds accurate. This is something that college programs should be addressing to prepare future teachers as well as offering continuing ed courses for current teachers. Districts should be able to allocate resources to support this effort.
How many hours a day do they suggest a teacher prepare and be trained?
"The challenge is due to the fact that despite the widespread agreement on its importance, training in digital literacy skills and techniques is rare in teacher education and school district professional development programs," the report said.
And, I would add, that the training is designed to teach the skills and not the pedagogy for using those skills in class. Teachers still see this as an aside to their job of teaching the content for the purpose of scoring high on the tests.
The third critical challenge cited by the authors was the failure of both technology and teaching practices to meet demands for differentiated, personalized learning.