School Library Staffing &
PSSA Reading & Writing Scores
From
Assessing the Infrastructure Needs of
21st Century School Library Programs
A National Leadership Grant research project
Thanks to Dennis for this scoop!
Dennis T OConnor's insight:
The University of Florida developed three Flash games for their 'Gaming Against Plagiarism' project.
Fantastic portfolio! Deborah has shared projects she has created and put together a comprehensive portfolio of what she has been learning and working on as she is earning her degree.
A simple look at the components of an HTML page tells a lot about the reliability of its contents. Problem is, distribution platforms don't bother looking at those signals. (Part of a series about my News Quality Scoring Project.)
The Media History Digital Library. Online Access to the Histories of Cinema, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound.
We are a non-profit initiative dedicated to digitizing collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access. The project is supported by owners of materials who loan them for scanning, and donors who contribute funds to cover the cost of scanning. We have currently scanned over 800,000 pages, and that number is growing. Our Collections feature Extensive Runs of several important trade papers and fan magazines.
Simply put, we can’t keep preparing students for a world that doesn’t exist. We can’t keep ignoring the formidable cognitive skills they’re developing on their own. And above all, we must stop disparaging digital prowess just because some of us over 40 don’t happen to possess it. An institutional grudge match with the young can sabotage an entire culture.
A classroom suited to today’s students should deemphasize solitary piecework. It should facilitate the kind of collaboration that helps individuals compensate for their blindnesses, instead of cultivating them. That classroom needs new ways of measuring progress, tailored to digital times — rather than to the industrial age or to some artsy utopia where everyone gets an Awesome for effort.
The new classroom should teach the huge array of complex skills that come under the heading of digital literacy. And it should make students accountable on the Web, where they should regularly be aiming, from grade-school on, to contribute to a wide range of wiki projects.
According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See It". This is an article about the book.