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The Classroom Bookshelf - 7 views

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15 Sites and Apps Kids Are Heading to Beyond Facebook | Common Sense Media - 12 views

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    15 sites and apps kids are heading to beyond Facebook
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Bedtime Stories for Young Brains - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • all pediatric primary care should include literacy promotion, starting at birth
  • how important it is to read to even very young children
  • “When we show them a video of a story, do we short circuit that process a little?” he asked. “Are we taking that job away from them? They’re not having to imagine the story; it’s just being fed to them.”
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  • it is important that young children hear language, and that they need to hear it from people, not from screens.
  • serious disparities in how much language children hear
  • reading picture books with young children may mean that they hear more words, while at the same time, their brains practice creating the images associated with those words
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    Research into the benefits, indeed the necessity, of reading to young children.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Share What's Obvious...It Might Not Be Obvious to Everyone - 7 views

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    Share What's Obvious...It Might Not Be Obvious to Everyone
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Jake Green photographs emerging children's illustrators in his book, The Bookmaker's St... - 4 views

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    A book is coming, featuring the up and coming picture book illustrators, some have already had quite a measure of success (Herve Tullet, Chris Haughton) others I've not heard of before but will be checking out their books asap.
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Modern Library Learning Environments - space and service | Services to Schools - 2 views

  • A MLLE is not just about space, it gives equal consideration to space and service. Confusion can happen when radical service redesign and delivery intersect with what we’ve known and how we've always operated. The MLLE movement has given traditional libraries a formidable challenge.
  • School libraries and librarians are part of this new education eco-system, preparing students for a vastly unpredictable and constantly changing world. MLLEs are where print and digital resources meet, as part of a smorgasbord of offerings curated to support, encourage, engage and make our students curious about their learning, and  foster and develop a childhood love of reading.
  • A MLLE is not just about space, it gives equal consideration to space and service. Confusion can happen when radical service redesign and delivery intersect with what we’ve known and how we've always operated. The MLLE movement has given traditional libraries a formidable challenge.
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  • The myth that all students are carrying a library in their pocket and “we don’t need a library”, as BYOD becomes increasingly the norm,
  • The myth that all students are carrying a library in their pocket and “we don’t need a library”, as BYOD becomes increasingly the norm, does nothing to support, prepare or scaffold students into a world that will expect them to know how to wisely navigate and contribute in a world digital-by-default.
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      Survey students as to availability/ownership of BYODs
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Find Images for Blogs & Social Media with Embed | Getty Images - 2 views

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    A tool for embedding images - permission granted
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