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Fascinating talk on the drag factor of copyright on the entertainment industry, and exactly where and how the authorities got it wrong.

Webinars from ISTE's SIGMS that focus on tools for you to use in your professional practice.

10:41 PM Susan Oxnevad 15 comments Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills. At it's most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information.

Karen Bonanno provides a series of advocacy activities that can help school library staff influence policy, advising that to bring about change requires consistent and persistent effort to shift perceptions. She advocates maintaining regular positive activity which can be supported by strategies such as identifying a memorable message, capturing killer statistics, gathering startling facts and statements and leveraging the network.

Understanding Millenials: The Next Normal by Kirsty Bloore, Director of Research (VIMN) - a real insight into what is important to high school students, how they communicate and what influences them.

Kirsty overturns some of the stereotypes we tend to believe of the Millennial Generation, and comes up with some interesting findings about how they see themselves.

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"Although librarians adopted Internet technology quickly, they initially dismissed search engines, which duplicated tasks they considered integral to their field. Their eventual embrace of the technology required a reinvention of their occupational identity, according to a study by University of Oregon researchers."

Collaborative Google Doc for class to share infographics they've found and analysed.

Need to have learning at point of need but do poeple know what they do not know? How do we market what we can add to the learning.

Chronicle of higher education study about research after college.

A summary of discussions at the 10th anniversary New Media Consortium Horizon Project special convocation and retreat.

"Prior knowledge is an essential part of the meaning making negotiated between interlocutors. In classrooms, too, students' prior knowledge is a key factor in students overall achievement and performances. Most often, those lacking this kind of knowledge always lag behind the rest. There are actually several ways teachers can determine how much prior knowledge students have in store before debuting a discussion or a lesson. The visual below created by Mia from anethicalisland outlines some very practical ways that you can use in your class to check for students' previous knowledge. Check it out"