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How To Engage Today’s Students in Civics

eSchool News

Search for other school library innovations. See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013).

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What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?

Edsurge

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. It got part of the way there, digitizing at least 25 million books from major university libraries. But the promised library of everything hasn’t come into being.

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The theme was eBooks and these are my favorite tweets from #tlchat April 15, 2013

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

Werner (@MaineSchoolTech) April 16, 2013 My eBookReaders page: cybraryman.com/ereaders.html #tlchat — Jerry Blumengarten (@cybraryman1) April 16, 2013 Haven''t spent money on eBooks yet: Here''s what I''ve done so far: eBooks LibGuide ow.ly/k5O2s Paper reading scientificamerican.com/article.cfm? interview w/ @ infomancy REGISTER ow.ly/jTSqE

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How Genrefication Makes School Libraries More Like Bookstores

MindShift

For 12 years Jennifer Taylor watched kids come into the library at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt, California and struggle: “We’d have rows and rows of books, and they don’t know what to pick.” Little did Taylor know, she’d stumbled upon a hotbed of controversy in the world of library science. Leigh Collazo, otherwise known as “Mrs.

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Featured Article: Math Teacher Uses New Technology to Reduce Student Anxiety & Build Confidence #mathchat #edtech

techieMusings

I created my first VideoScribe in 2013. VideoScribe has a large library of sketched drawings and you can pull any image into your project. We asked her about the integration of technology in her lessons, and her thoughts on engaging students with video. Here’s what Stacey had to say…. How long have you been using VideoScribe?

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed. If a student might work more efficiently in a quieter learning environment, for example, you could allow them to complete a project in the school library.

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Announcing Library 2.019: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design" - Registration and CFP Open

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We're excited to announce our first Library 2.019 mini-conference: "Shaping the Future of Libraries with Instructional Design," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, March 13th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0