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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Staying Organized and Healthy.

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3 Key Actions for 2021-22 You Can Take Now

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Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. The district used Alma to target addresses, put them in Google My Maps to find out where students were located, and set up about 20 satellite meal locations.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

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6) (Note: Most of these tasks could authentically be taught in our libraries during the natural course of any inquiry project.). Google and Facebook both announced that they would try to eliminate fake news from appearing in their result lists and newsfeeds by blocking fake news sources from using their ad networks. Remember Sandy?

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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I’ve also done online office hours in a live format, where students, alumni, or random visitors basically used AOL Instant Messenger or Google Talk to ask questions. We also use a lot of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. What other world leaders is Angela Merkel meeting with? And it’s not silly stuff.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. Hayden is the first new librarian of Congress since 1987,” The New York Times observed at her swearing in in September, “and brings with her another generation’s ideas about accessibility, technology and the role that libraries play in society.”