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Carla Shinn

So-Called "Digital Natives" Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows - 29 views

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information literacy research 2.0 media literacy

shared by Carla Shinn on 18 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 18 Mar 14
     
    "In Google we trust." That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others.
Penny Roberts

Home - Population Reference Bureau - 0 views

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population statistics demographics geography reference databases

shared by Penny Roberts on 25 Jul 13 - Cached
  • Penny Roberts on 25 Jul 13
     
    Population data reference website.
Susie Highley

Mapping Worlds - 0 views

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map statistics history social studies demographics

shared by Susie Highley on 30 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Susie Highley on 30 Jul 13
     
    Nice interactive that shows you how countries compare relative to many features and statistics. Can be done with world as whole, US or Japan. Includes such things as population, religion, causes of death, health, education, and more.
Dennis OConnor

ALA | Interview with Keith Curry Lance - 1 views

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ala 21cif library media specialist library2.0 research

shared by Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • A series of studies that have had a great deal of influence on the research and decision-making discussions concerning school library media programs have grown from the work of a team in Colorado—Keith Curry Lance, Marcia J. Rodney, and Christine Hamilton-Pennell (2000).
  • Recent school library impact studies have also identified, and generated some evidence about, potential "interventions" that could be studied. The questions might at first appear rather familiar: How much, and how, are achievement and learning improved when . . . librarians collaborate more fully with other educators? libraries are more flexibly scheduled? administrators choose to support stronger library programs (in a specific way)? library spending (for something specific) increases?
  • high priority should be given to reaching teachers, administrators, and public officials as well as school librarians and school library advocates.
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  • Perhaps the most strategic option, albeit a long-term one, is to infiltrate schools and colleges of education. Most school administrators and teachers never had to take a course, or even part of a course, that introduced them to what constitutes a high-quality school library program.
  • Three factors are working against successful advocacy for school libraries: (1) the age demographic of librarians, (2) the lack of institutionalization of librarianship in K–12 schools, and (3) the lack of support from educators due to their lack of education or training about libraries and good experiences with libraries and librarians.
  • These vacant positions are highly vulnerable to being downgraded or eliminated in these times of tight budgets, not merely because there is less money to go around, but because superintendents, principals, teachers, and other education decision-makers do not understand the role a school librarian can and should play.
  • If we want the school library to be regarded as a central player in fostering academic success, we must do whatever we can to ensure that school library research is not marginalized by other interests.    
  • Dennis OConnor on 11 Jan 11
     
    A great overview of Lance's research into the effectiveness of libraries.  He answers the question: Do school libraries or librarians make a difference?  His answer (A HUGE YES!) is back by 14 years of remarkable research.  The point is proved.  But this information remains unknown to many principals and superintendents.  Anyone interested in 21st century teaching and learning will find this interview fascinating.
Carla Shinn

The Muscle-Flexing, Mind-Blowing Book Girls Will Inherit The Earth - 16 views

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books reading

shared by Carla Shinn on 06 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 06 Jun 14
     
    The Book Girls are only partly real; like most heavily marketed-to demographics, they only sort of exist. Every Book Girl is something else, too - a sportsy girl, a scientist, a nail-art aficionado, a poet, a prodigy, a patient. But the force they are exerting is real. They have created a market for what they love, and they insist upon it. They have allies in boyfriends and boy friends, in parents and other adults, in librarians and book critics. The world of their books is much more complicated than just them, and they are more complicated than just their books.
Colette Cassinelli

The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person | Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service - 22 views

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map social studies race profile racial

shared by Colette Cassinelli on 31 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • Colette Cassinelli on 31 Aug 15
     
    This map is an American snapshot; it provides an accessible visualization of geographic distribution, population density, and racial diversity of the American people in every neighborhood in the entire country.
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