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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Laura is the new media specialist at NMHS and has been challenged to develop innovative ways to create structures to recognize informal learning of both teachers and students. As a 21st Century Library Media Specialist, part of what I strive to do is to serve as an instructional technology resource for both educators and learners. ?In

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How School Libraries Can Help Personalize Learning

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With personalization becoming a growing initiative in schools, the library is a valuable asset for personalizing instruction around student needs. Michelle and Jackie discussed how the library can personalize instruction through assessing, reading, learning, and making.

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Personalize Your School Library Program with these Convenient, Creative Apps

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Apps bring technology, functionality, and creativity into your school library program. Since apps are a part of our everyday lives, especially those of students, they have the power to totally change the way students and teachers think about learning. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

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Immersive Technology: Asset to the Classroom or Another Tech Fad?      

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Augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality—can immersive technology really benefit students and their learning, or are these just tech fads? First, Donally and Luhtala started by distinguishing the three types of immersive technology. 360 environments are our future.

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Using Design Thinking to Support Makerspaces

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Derry said libraries often find it easier to encourage play than schools, which tend to be more closed environments. A focus on empathy and learning to relate to all aspects of the problem and not just the end result. The New Canaan High School Library won AASL’s National School Library Program of the year in 2010.

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The edWeb Team is going to be at ISTE 2019

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We’re hosting a panel on “Exploring a Free World of Personalized Professional Learning” and invite you to join us for the 412 District Teacher Band at the Field House Sports Bar. Join us for our panel: Explore a Free World of Personalized Professional Learning. See below for details!

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Transform Learning by Creating a Makerspace

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In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace. Redesigning the Space.