The idea behind the site is to introduce students to a variety of books and form classroom book groups. How does Extreme Speed Booking work? A whole lot like speed dating. Students spend a little time with each book and then rate them accordingly with "I want to read more", "Interesting", "Not for me", or "I've already read". Students can also make a note of how interested they are in reading the book (maybe a 1-10 scale)? This process introduces students to a variety of books, genres and authors. Students may come across titles and authors they wouldn't otherwise find. It also helps teachers form classroom book groups that are of high-interest and investment to students because they had input. iLearn Technology
What interests me is not just the explosion of the printed word but the inspirational library spaces created to curate them.
As a space, it is about inspiring young people.
The senior school library continues the journey. Here we aim to combine the power of the story with a concept premised on the Cabinet of Curiosities. Curiosity in its purest sense where a student's learning is entirely unrelated to examination specifications and is encouraging learning for its own sake. The first cabinet being mooted relates to an evening next term where the films of Charlie Chaplin will provide both entertainment and a cultural reference point. Our Curator of the Cabinet of Curiosities is tasked with supporting this with the curation of a range of objects which will stimulate interest and encourage inquiry. Our approach is unashamedly about inspiring a love of learning.
You are interested in a subject, but you don't know what hashtag people are using. No problem. Use Hashtagify.me. Say you were interested in the "flipped classroom." Type that term into Hashtagify.me and see what happens.
"Easily organize what you've found on the web. The simple and intuitive interface makes sorting your interests, your passions and your ideas easy. Pearltrees allows you to give a precise meaning to the content you've archived making retrieval and reuse a pleasure.
You can also instantly share the content you've organized. In Pearltrees, everything is public. All other users can see what you've organized and you can see everything that others have collected. This lets you easily find users with common interests and when you do, you can team up with them and curate a topic together.
Pearltrees also lets you discover a web organized by others. Do you like discovering a city with a friend who already lives there? With Pearltrees, you can enjoy a similar though digital experience and learn about a new topic, a newsworthy issue or anything else that captures your attention, all curated by other people just like you."
In the first stage, teens are mostly text-messaging or
instant-messaging friends and haunting sites such as Facebook — what the
researchers call a "lightweight means" of maintaining friendships. "Messing
around" begins when teens take an interest in media itself: composing music,
editing photos or shooting video, driven more by interests than a desire to be
with friends.
"Geeking out" involves using new media in an "intense,
autonomous and interest-driven way" that often leaves friends in the dust as
teens seek out experts for help.
I noticed this group on diigo and thought you might be interested in a program being sponsored by my brother-in-law's company, Coolibar. The program is part of their sun aware program. They'll give...
I noticed this group on diigo and thought you might be interested in a program being sponsored by my brother-in-law's company, Coolibar. The program is part of their sun aware program. They'll give...
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.
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.
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.
Feed readers
are probably the most important digital tool for today's learner because they
make sifting through the amazing amount of content added to the Internet
easy. Also known as aggregators, feed readers are free tools that can
automatically check nearly any website for new content dozens of times a
day---saving ridiculous amounts of time and customizing learning experiences for
anyone.
Imagine
never having to go hunting for new information from your favorite sources
again. Learning goes from a frustrating search through thousands of
marginal links written by questionable characters to quickly browsing the
thoughts of writers that you trust, respect and enjoy.
Feed readers can
quickly and easily support blogging in the classroom, allowing teachers to
provide students with ready access to age-appropriate sites of interest that are
connected to the curriculum. By collecting sites in advance and organizing
them with a feed reader, teachers can make accessing information manageable for
their students.
Here are several
examples of feed readers in action:
Used specifically as
a part of one classroom project, this feed list contains information related to
global warming that students can use as a starting point for individual
research.
While there are literally dozens of different feed reader
programs to choose from (Bloglines andGoogle Reader are two
biggies), Pageflakes is a favorite of
many educators because it has a visual layout that is easy to read and
interesting to look at. It is also free and web-based. That
means that users can check accounts from any computer with an Internet
connection. Finally, Pageflakes makes it quick and easy to add new
websites to a growing feed list—and to get rid of any websites that users are no
longer interested in.
What's even
better: Pageflakes has been developinga teacher version of their tooljust for us that includes an online grade tracker,
a task list and a built in writing tutor. As Pageflakes works to perfect
its teacher product, this might become one of the first kid-friendly feed
readers on the market. Teacher Pageflakes users can actually blog and create a
discussion forum directly in their feed reader---making an all-in-one digital
home for students.
For more
information about the teacher version of Pageflakes, check out this
review:
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If you didn't get to ALIA Information Online conference - maybe you'll find something of interest in the notes / blog of Mal Booth, UTS' University Librarian.
Interesting idea having all uni students, staff and feeder year 12 students reading same book. Certainly in my small village a book club which maybe 1/3 population belonged to certainly gave us a conversation starter in the shop.
The more students read, the better they'll read So, why limit their reading to a pre-set reading level with limited titles available?
Students need opportunities to read easy books to build fluency - This is ratified in Appendix A, Page 9, of the CCSS standards. We shouldn't have to define what level they should read at -- whether easy or hard -- for independent reading.
Students need experience reading complex text to improve their ability to decode meaning when they encounter difficult material - This is based on the research of Marilyn Jager Rand, PhD. Brown University
Students will shift from easy --> hard material if it's on a subject of their interest. - So let them choose what they want and their innate curiosity will compel them to read and achieve understanding, thus raising their reading ability.
Students need curiosity to inspire reading. They will either have natural curiosity or stirred up curiosity (stirred up by the educator)
Students need a reason to read that is not about 'assignment' - a quest for knowledge or an answer to find.
If you are interested in helping your child develop reading habit, personalized books will be great help to you. Internet is the best resource to look for them and even shop for them too.
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When Valentine's Day comes around, everyone spends a lot of time telling guys how to please "her". But no one seems to offer up many suggestions for the guys. Traditional Valentine's Day gifts probably don't speak to your guy the same way they speak to you.
Well, in this short article we've broken our gift suggestions down by interest, and we have both an affordable and splurge option. Here are the 15 exclusive gifts for every type of man.
Lissa Davies on 31 Jan 12The idea behind the site is to introduce students to a variety of books and form classroom book groups. How does Extreme Speed Booking work? A whole lot like speed dating. Students spend a little time with each book and then rate them accordingly with "I want to read more", "Interesting", "Not for me", or "I've already read". Students can also make a note of how interested they are in reading the book (maybe a 1-10 scale)? This process introduces students to a variety of books, genres and authors. Students may come across titles and authors they wouldn't otherwise find. It also helps teachers form classroom book groups that are of high-interest and investment to students because they had input. iLearn Technology
