In celebration of The Yarn podcast, created by SLJ blogger Travis Jonker and Colby Sharp, teen librarian Robin Brenner has curated a roundup of podcasts to recommend to young adults who are both new to and well-versed in the format.
In celebration of The Yarn podcast, created by SLJ blogger Travis Jonker and Colby Sharp, teen librarian Robin Brenner has curated a roundup of podcasts to recommend to young adults who are both new to and well-versed in the format.
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The 21st Century Fluencies are comprised of six main areas: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and Global Digital Citizenship. The main focus of these fluencies is to help instill in today's students a set of unconscious skills to help them survive and thrive in the 21st century and beyond.
Category: Society | 1510 views | Created: 04/08/13 This board explores the diverse voices in the school library debate. As budgets get cut, libraries often disappear. Since April is School Library Month, consider these perspectives & decide whether you consider them essential or expendable. Welcome to your new Learn Board This is a Learn board.
Using the free website builder WIX lots of web 2.0 tools for teachers and guides for working on the web. Includes creative commons and digital citizenship, as well as history sites, world religions, mapping tools, etc.
You may be interested in the attached drawing together of web 2.0 tools -- all websites created using the free website builder WIX. Sorry if already been mentioned before. It does need some navigating around but I have found some real treasures here.
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.”
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
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,
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.
This is a very interesting article that appeared last week and has created a lot of comment online. There is quite a backlash against it including an article in the current Listener saying that there is no 'should' in reading for pleasure. I am firmly of the opinion that any reading is GOOD reading and won't apologise for what I read!