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http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2015-nmc-horizon-report-k12-EN.pdf - 2 views

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    Future directions from a United States perspective; examines emerging technologies for their potential impact on and use in teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in schools.
vmchalick

Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say - The Wa... - 2 views

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    This article is about the way the digital age is changing the way students are able to read: "We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age. It's both. We have to ask the question: What do we want to preserve?"
Mary Wallis

The Scientific Reasons Why Students Need to Read Fiction ~ Educational Technology and M... - 8 views

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    Interesting reading to pass onto staff and students
Miriam Tuohy

Best Websites for Teaching & Learning 2013 | American Association of School Librarians ... - 5 views

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    There is an awful lot of really excellent stuff here! Thanks for sharing. This would be an excellent list to explore for some self-driven PD.
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    Spent some time in the holidays looking at this,it was really useful.
Kay Greed

Best Apps for Teaching & Learning | American Association of School Librarians (AASL) - 1 views

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    A Division of the American Library Association
Jenny Whiting

NetSafe - Learn | Guide | Protect: Year 1-8 Teachers Talk Cybersafety - 1 views

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    Digital Citizenship
Crissi Blair

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.
Crissi Blair

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

  • 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.
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    Peter O'Connor writes about the benefits of local schools in Auckland.
denyse1952

I Can Teach My Child! - Activities and resources for parents of young children - 3 views

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    This website is great if your school starts at Year 1. She has some great free resources when you subscribe to her emails. I have printed off science experiments, and also some Bible memory cards. Not suitable for upper primary.
Miriam Tuohy

Leading Learning - 3 views

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    Canadian Library Association standards for school libraries
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