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Fun for students when studying animals

I recently sat down with Terry Heick from TeachThought.com to chat about a whole host of topics, including global warming, data privacy, ePortfolios, and blogging with students. Terry and I met while on a whirlwind tour of Israel's education system late last year. We talk a bit about that trip, too, including our weirdest moments and memories.

AASL invites students to participate in a digital storytelling contest held as part of the 2015 celebration of School Library Month. The contest asks students to reflect on the 2015 theme, "Your School Library: Where Learning Never Ends" and create... Read More › The January/February 2015 Knowledge Quest theme is Evidence-Based Practice.

How can you prepare students for workplace experiences that don't exist yet? As an educator in this digital age, that's one of my biggest challenges. Our students now in elementary school have never had a time in their lives where mobile technology wasn't present.

By working together, principals, librarians, and teachers can transform learning environments to ensure that students achieve digital literacy. By Ann M. Martin and Kathleen R. Roberts Principal, January/February 2015

Attract students to libraries and other rooms of learning by creating agile, inviting spaces with makerspace elements and, most importantly, a community feeling.

This toolkit will help you get started effectively promoting what you and your program offer students and your community. Published as a web-based toolkit, many of the tools and resources referenced within are hyperlinked and freely accessible online. In addition, this toolkit includes an interactive component, and we hope you will contribute your own resources, tools, templates, and samples. Use this venue to share your advocacy success stories with your peers and help inspire and strengthen one another

Grant Smith Former educator turned teacher trainer and CS education consultant helping districts bring coding to all students. Becoming a coding teacher doesn't need to be intimidating. I've tried to convert real programmers into after-school coding teachers and it completely bombed. Trust me -- as a well-trained teacher, you have all of the skills you need to be successful.

Naomi Harms and her team of innovators are truly amazing! I've attend as many conferences/sessions as possible with her leading (or her team.) Each time I feel inspired to do something amazing for my students.

is a unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. The CCBC is a noncirculating examination, study, and research library for Wisconsin school and public librarians, teachers, early childhood care providers, university students, and others interested in children's and young adult literature, and administers the statewide Read On Wisconsin literacy program.

As a teacher, Google Docs is definitely an important tool in your digital toolkit. It provides you with an easy and simple platform where you can compose, work collaboratively and share your documents. With the introduction of third party add-ons, Docs' functionalities have been tremendously expanded empowering users with a plethora of advanced features available only in premium writing editors.

I follow this site off of Facebook. They do great things here and I have found many solutions and ideas in what is posted. Below is a recent post: This is a guest post from Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) of EdTechTeacher, an advertiser on this site. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy, Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell, young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects.

By teachers. For students. Get unstuck.

Results of the SpeakUp survey, 2014.

I spent the last two days with a group of world-class librarians, archivists, and other miscellaneous experts, talking about the future of education for students in what can be nebulously labelled 'information services'.

Kevin Honeycutt, a technology integration specialist, delivers the keynote address on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at the WASB/WASDA/WASBO State Education Convention in Milwaukee. Use technology to demand more from students. Then tell people what they can do!