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Future Ready Schools heralds school librarians as leaders

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New project highlights critical role school librarians play in supporting Future Ready goals. Future Ready Schools (FRS), led by the Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) in partnership with the U.S. Future Ready librarians embrace change and innovation in education,” said Ray. “As

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions.

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A Unified Approach for Digital Integration

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He currently co-leads a Future Ready Administrators principal team to foster professional learning and he is working with the director of curriculum to define a blended and personalized learning framework to help implement digital content and services. Mark has presented at ISTE, SXSWEdu, FETC, CUE, and AASL. About the Host.

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Michelle Luhtala Wins AASL Social Media Superstars Award

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Department of Education; Personalizing Instruction Through the Library ; and Media Literacy: A Crash Course in 60 Minutes with Greg Toppo, the National Education and Demographics Reporter for USA Today. She was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2015, and won the New York Times I Love My School Librarian award in 2012.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. ” Library Technology Reports 50.7 What’s curation? Curation is a funny word. Designs Collaborative Spaces. Some other resources : Curation Tools and Platforms Pearltrees. OER Portals Pearltrees.

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Final Speakers List + Registration for October 6th "Libraries of the Future" Online Mini-Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join the 4,000 others who have already registered to participate or watch the recordings now and we'll also send you our curated resource conference reading packet: 11 downloadable reports and tool-kits, 18 articles, 10 websites, and a YouTube video playlist --all focused on key ideas and trends for libraries of the future.

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Maintaining Cybersecurity in Schools: Phishing, Malware, and DDoS—Oh My!

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A review of 2019-2020 data further highlights the cyber threats school systems face: In 2019, 11% of all school districts reported a total of 408 incidents, with 12 districts reporting at least two events. Zoombombing (a prevalent “pastime” during the COVID-19 pandemic). Website defacement.