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Librarians at the Forefront of “Future Ready”

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Librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become “future ready.” The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning.

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Readers Recommend

The Daring Librarian

But this can work at any time in a school library or ELA classroom. I was inspired by Librarian tiff because she also does this in her school library and created this amazing graphic below, made it Creative Commons, and gave it out to the world! Future Ready Teacher Librarian & Tech Leader. Effective. Cheers dears!

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The edWeb Team is going to be at ISTE 2019

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Dr. Rob is the author of several books including Reading, Technology, and Digital Literacy and the ISTE bestselling title Are You Future Ready. Rob also hosts a well-known YouTube educational video blog called The Seditionists and educational podcast called the Council on the Future of Education.

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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

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edWeb is so excited to congratulate Michelle Luhtala, department chair at New Canaan High School Library in Connecticut, for being selected as a 2017 AASL Social Media Superstars winner ! I met Michelle Luhtala at the CoSN Conference in March 2010–seven years ago. ” These are not your average webinars – they are edWebinars!

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Take a Shelfie Not a Selfie

The Daring Librarian

Turn the camera around girl & take pics of your students, your classroom, your library, your school, your co-workers, your world. Future Ready Teacher Librarian & Tech Leader. ISTE Board of Directors PK-12 Representative 2010-2014 - Creator of Content. Yeah, I roll my eyes and probably don't follow them.

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

When we have testing in our Library, I put all our Makerspace stuff on an AV cart and roll it into our server room. Say you're trying for 50 or 100 - put a decorated cardboard box outside your Library or Classroom for donations! We all have damaged or out-of-date books that we’ve weeded from our library. Just like new!

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Ninja Unicorn - Coloring Bookmarks

The Daring Librarian

We were madly getting ready for MAP testing deadlines (going through each and every laptop and also worrying over so many snow related school delays and a day off that I forgot to sign up for a pot-luck breakfast for our district Library Media Professional Development day. Future Ready Teacher Librarian & Tech Leader.