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Crissi Blair

Peter O'Connor: The case for local schools - 2 views

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schools Auckland education PeterO'Connor

shared by Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • So why would you choose your local school now? Simply because all the evidence suggests that the edge in education parents seek is not gained with fancy technological gadgets, nor in this idea of effective or good teachers.
  • The key is in the quality of the relationship that children have with their classroom teacher. And we simply have in New Zealand amongst the very best teachers in the world and you can pretty much trust that the ones in your local school are as good as the ones in that expensive private school down the road.
  • if more of our kids go to their local school, we have a chance to rebuild a sense of community,
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  • And we refuse to be marketed to, to be sold the lie that our community and our school is not as good as that one down the road where the richer kids go to
  • the core role of schools. That role is not literacy and numeracy but about creating a community of happy kids learning about the world and their place in it.
  • Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15
     
    Peter O'Connor writes about the benefits of local schools in Auckland.
Trish Webster

The Atlas of New Librarianship | Companion Site - 4 views

www.newlibrarianship.org/wordpress

librarianship

shared by Trish Webster on 04 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Trish Webster on 04 Sep 13
     
    "The mission of librarianship is to improve society through facilitating knowledge creation in their communities"
Bridget Schaumann

Fathers can make a difference in getting sons to read - 6 views

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Reading fathers

shared by Bridget Schaumann on 17 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Bridget Schaumann on 17 Feb 15
     
    From the Australian Listserv this is possibly useful for those who are looking for ways to connect with their wider reading community
lindajeffares

Design flyers to spread the word online | Smore - 4 views

www.smore.com

display newsletters flyers communication

shared by lindajeffares on 13 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • lindajeffares on 13 Sep 13
     
    Short video showing how to use smore - you could share it with staff
anonymous

School Library Monthly - Curation - 8 views

www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/...Valenza2012-v29n1p20.html

content curation joyce valenza professional reading

shared by anonymous on 30 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Librarians are uniquely qualified to curate. School librarians are perhaps most ripe for this function, because they understand the curriculum and the specific needs and interests of their own communities of teachers, administrators, learners, and parents.
  • We school librarians are used to critically evaluating, selecting, and sharing content and tools for learning. We are used to taming information flow to facilitate discovery and knowledge building.
  • Educators will also value help in gathering the tools they need for daily classroom activities. School librarians can gather lesson and rubric portals, nonfiction and documentary films, booktrailers, tools for regular classroom routines—online stop watches, classroom clipart, poster tools, game and quiz generators, etc.
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  • Unlike other Web curators, librarians are not simple one-interest enthusiasts.
  • As school librarians we can think of digital collection curation as the selection and assembly of a focused group of resources into a Web-based presentation that meets an identified purpose or need and has meaning and context for a targeted audience.
  • School librarians might also curate for parents by gathering resources to support learning at home, explanations of new technologies, and instruction in transliteracy.
  • These learning artifacts can function as lasting tools for instruction as well as models for future learners.
  • Curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool. Searchers can now exploit the curated efforts or the bibliographies of experts and others who take the lead in a particular subject area—those who volunteer to scan the real-time environment as scouts. They also present the opportunity to guide learners in new evaluation strategies. Who is the curator? Which curators can you trust? Is a curator attached to a team, publication, institution, organization? How can the quality of their insights, selections, sources, and feeds be judged? Do their efforts have many followers? Is their curation active and current?
  • anonymous on 23 Aug 15
     
    Content curation, subject based, collaboration, research tool,
  • anonymous on 24 Aug 15
     
    Trying to figure out why the shared date is wrong
anonymous

Reading for pleasure builds empathy and improves wellbeing, research from The Reading A... - 4 views

readingagency.org.uk/...-the-reading-agency-finds.html

literacy Research Reading and empowerment

shared by anonymous on 17 Aug 15 - Cached
  • reading for pleasure can increase empathy, improve relationships with others, reduce the symptoms of depression and the risk of dementia, and improve wellbeing throughout life
  • strong evidence to show that reading for pleasure plays a vital role in improving educational outcomes
  • in the UK, reading levels are low among people of all ages: most children do not read on a daily basis and almost a third of adults don't read for pleasure
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  • reading for pleasure and empowerment
  • better parent-child communication
  • reduction of depression and dementia symptoms among adults.
  • people who choose to read, and enjoy doing so, in their spare time are more likely to reap all of these benefits
  • When I write a story I hope to beguile, to enchant, to bewitch, to perform an act of magic on and with my readers' imaginations.
  • The true aim of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it'."
  • everything changes when we read
  • reading for pleasure has a dramatic impact on life outcomes
  • children who read for pleasure are happier, healthier and do better in life than those who don't
  • Crissi Blair on 17 Aug 15
     
    Research in UK into benefits of reading for pleasure
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