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Jody Stone

CURRICULUM « Digital Citizenship Program - 0 views

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    Curriculum for teaching Digital Citizenship. Includes Information Literacy, Communication, Awareness and Safety & Health.
Martha Hickson

Project Information Literacy: Preliminary Trends About Recent Graduates' Lifelong Learn... - 19 views

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    "What lifelong learning needs do recent graduates have once they finish college? What information sources and systems do they use for continued learning? During fall 2014, the PIL research team surveyed 1,651 recent graduates from 10 US colleges and universities. Read the survey trends report with preliminary findings from our study (10 pages, PDF, 229KB). "Preliminary Trends about Recent Graduates' Lifelong Learning Needs and Practices," Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Research Summary, February 17, 2015."
Martha Hickson

Literacy - Literacy - New York City Department of Education - 23 views

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    Includes rubrics for qualitative analysis of informational and literary texts
Donna Baumbach

School Library Commission | National Literacy Trust - 7 views

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    Schools libraries are too often a "wasted resource" which should be brought into the mainstream of teaching, says a report. (BBC News) Full BBC article at http://twe.tc/oL "...while school libraries have a unique role in raising pupils' literacy levels, promoting reading for pleasure and improving their access to knowledge, in many schools the library is a wasted resource because it is poorly embedded in the infrastructure of the school and absent from school development plans. "
jenibo

NoodleTools : Blog : Noodling » Blog Archive » NoodleTools Provides Its Show ... - 10 views

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    Thanks Denis T Oconnor for the Scoop!
Sally Dooley

Education Week: Teaching Students Better Online Research Skills - 27 views

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    Education Week article with thinglink
Penny Roberts

CISSL Study Helps Define Role of Successful NJ School Libraries | School Library Journal - 0 views

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    US study of what makes school libraries work. Examines the relationships between, teacher, teacher/librarians and the school leadership. The role of libraires in promoting technology and information literacy also discussed.
Cara Whitehead

Summer Program - 10 views

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    VocabularySpellingCity has a new summer word study program that allows children to sharpen academic skills as they play. These simple assignments are a daily workout for the brain, building literacy skills such as vocabulary, spelling, and writing.
Dave Crusoe

Search Engines, Boolean Logic and Education: What's important for educators to know? - 0 views

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    An essay to explore how shifts in search engine technologies may have an impact on instructional practice and content -- would love thoughts & feedback!
Donna Baumbach

Poptropica - 14 views

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    virtual world for kids - Kids create a "Poptropican" character to travel the many Islands of Poptropica and use gaming literacy to enjoy a narrative that is often rooted in factual history. Problem-solving skills are honed as kids discover and solve mysteries unique to each Island. There are always new areas to explore in this ever-expanding world where kids can collect objects, read digital books and comics, watch movies, and compete in head-to-head competition. 
Nancy Prentice

BFTP: So just what SHOULD librarians be teaching? - Home - Doug Johnson's Blu... - 0 views

  • reading bubble will be larger in schools with a large percentage of students who are not testing at grade leve
  • library media programs have intrinsic reading motivation and free volunteer reading as their core contributions to a school's reading program
  • providing and promoting high interest materials at a variety of reading levels that meet a variety of developmental needs, we will create kids who not only can read by want to read.
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  • in schools where there is no separate "technology integration specialist" available to students and teachers. This is also more prevelant at the secondary level.
  • An increasing number of schools seem to be emphasising technology as a focus
  • teach the educational application of technology tools, not just the applications themselves
  • our programs acknowledge our roles as reading and tech teachers, but we empahsis the application of these skills in an IL model that helps solve real problems and answer genuine questions.
  • the larger the information literacy bubble, the more opportunity library media specialists and teacher will have to address these areas both formally and informally
  • The best library program is the one that best supports the needs and goals of its school. It doesn't get much simpler than that. 
Gladstone Library

ABCs of Web Literacy: Interactive Tutorial - 0 views

  • If you are going to use the web for research, don't be duped by what you find out there. Learn five criteria for evaluation information on the web.
Katy Vance

Information process - 0 views

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    This is a research model for teaching information literacy through research projects at school.  We need to consider adopting a research model for our school and implementing across 7-13.
Katy Vance

Fake Spoof Websites social spoof sites historical spoof religious fake political fake s... - 0 views

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    Fake/Spoof websites to be used in teaching information literacy
Cathy Oxley

Reading Strateies for the Social Studies Classroom - 17 views

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    Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom
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