Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Sticker Library ? You do NOT have to use ALL CAPS to emphasize words in a Google document's comments. See previous Best Of posts from 2020 , 2019 , from 2018 , from 2017 , from 2016 , from 2015 and from 2014 for more links, tips, and ideas. ✏️ Weekly Journal ? Participation Chart ?

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The district is in the middle of a digital equity revolution, being led by a particularly sharp Director of Education Technology and Library Programs, Dewayne McClary. When McClary joined the district as the manager of educational technology in 2014, progress was less than stellar. And in fact, just three years earlier D.C.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 20, 2014

Both teens followed their passions at the library, during Teen Tech Week 2014. This year, Teen Tech Week took on a DIY theme, and libraries across the country offered high- and low-tech avenues for teens to create their own projects. Albany Public Library’s upcoming songwriting workshops might fit the bill. I hated it.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The research is clear: If a student is not motivated to read and is not engaged in the text, all of the strategy instruction a teacher might provide may be for naught (Guthrie and Klauda, 2014; Ivey, 2014; Wanzek et al, 2014). Here are my notes I wrote under the document camera for 5th graders. Klauda, S. 49(4), 387-416.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 1st A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

MARCH 21, 2014

History folks can assign primary documents with annotations and questions embedded in the historical source. Anyone who wants to give their students reading short passages can access Curriculet''s ever-growing library of ready-to-use current event curriculets. Take a look at this curriculet I used with my students during the Olympics.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 7, 2017

At a recent webinar the subject of opening our library walls came up. Of considering how we might connect our learners in meaningful inquiry beyond the walls of our classrooms and libraries. We too can plan meaningful global learning partnerships, connect learners, classrooms and libraries. It often does.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The National STEM Video Game Challenge is open for student submissions of original, playable video games and game design documents. This year the STEM Challenge also welcomes its newest sponsor, the National Geographic Society, along with its supporting sponsors the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Grable Foundation.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2015

school and library to high-speed internet by helping states and school districts access billions of dollars in the newly modernized federal E-rate program. The reforms resulted in $9 billion being available for high-speed fiber and wi-fi projects at schools and libraries across the country over the next five years.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Special needs students use GIS to help them understand and document tasks in their day. Here are just a few of their stories.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Not a surprise—it happened in 2014 and 2013 , too.) The site is also useful for learning vocabulary words or seeing classic literature or public documents reworded more simply. Curriki — A library of open educational resources with curated curriculum collections. We also noticed a few trends while tracking the top tools.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

For example, 2013-14 English 9 or 2014-15 Honors English 9. From uploading my own documents or articles found on the web to reading canonical texts to preparing students for PARCC assessment , Curriculet is essential to tracking my students'' reading progress online. The daily agenda is posted as a Note with any attachments needed.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 27th, 2014 The secret of education is respecting the pupil. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

The key mission is to provide a professional learning community where librarians can leverage technology knowledge and expertise to improve school library programs, increase access to information, and foster strong teaching and learning environments in a connected world. 2014/15 Webinars. My library was open 24/7 since 1996.).

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The research is clear: If a student is not motivated to read and is not engaged in the text, all of the strategy instruction a teacher might provide may be for naught (Guthrie and Klauda, 2014; Ivey, 2014; Wanzek et al, 2014). Here are my notes I wrote under the document camera for 5th graders. Klauda, S. 49(4), 387-416.

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Student Engagement Handbook Libraries Classroom 28

Educator Innovator

JANUARY 8, 2018

We start this new year off with a chapter, “ Night Teaching ,” from political philosopher Danielle Allen’s book, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014). You can find a transcribed version of the Declaration at the National Archives.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 1, 2015

If we’re truly reflective practitioners, we think a lot about what happens in our libraries. But there are richer measures and more clearer lenses through which we can share and through which we can learn answers to such questions as” What does learning look like in the library? What are the real impacts of our libraries?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 13, 2016

Keep your student portfolios and documentation of parent communication for one full school year after the students have left your class, then toss them out. So this year, you should be throwing out anything from the 2014-2015 school year. Books that are missing pages, scribbled on, disgustingly grimy…recycle. And the best part?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In 2014, Kings College in New York became the first university in the U.S. Aparna Krishnan LiveEdu points to colleges, schools and libraries as some of its target participants. The idea is to offer schools a method of verifying and storing documents such as diplomas or test scores without the risk of hacking or degree fraud.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

I printed them all out and spread them around our classroom (which is a school library). My students traveled around the room in pairs or trios, visiting whichever stations they wanted (they had a shared notes document that listed all of the stations). Both of the main documents are editable. Shared notes. Introduction slide.

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Professional Learning Learning Libraries Groups 268

ViewSonic Education

MAY 10, 2022

Otherwise known as a Universal Series Bus, chances are good that you’ve used a USB drive to transfer documents at some point in the past. Since 2014, however, USB type-C has rapidly grown in popularity, particularly given its presence as a one-cable solution. . Designed in 2014, it was made available around the same time as USB 3.1.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

By 2014, when ChiTech applied for its five-year contract renewal, it was a low-performing school, with just 57 percent of students graduating after four years and less than half going to college. The document also covers assessments for interpersonal skills and habits of mind. Our principal was very textbook driven,” he said.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 22, 2022

introduced in 2014 ?and This can be especially useful when it comes to viewing things like PowerPoint presentations or documents with smaller text. . The post Why USB-C Monitors Are Perfect for Remote Workers appeared first on ViewSonic Library. The USB-C specification was first? mm audio. .

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Howard and Noakes: Howard encouraged educators to ask for documented and validated positive learning outcomes with actual kids. She is co-author of the book Digital Solidary in Education (2014). Furman: He looks for third party reviews, especially from classroom teachers, before he brings any tools to his teachers for testing.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 1, 2014

The Daring Librarian (@GwynethJones) May 25, 2014 Teachers: Be Kind. I''ve been blessed with having principals who were very supportive of me and our library media tech program. He''s been supportive of me, our library media program, & our TV Studio. We should be AS supportive (if not MORE!) How do you train a principal?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

True to form, she began studying late into the night, repeating phrases and learning new vocabulary from English language recordings she checked out from the library. She became Carver’s first student to move from undocumented to documented status and to enroll in college. Zelaya is now in her second year of college courses.

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Strategy Education E-rate Report 107

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2018

In fact, this was an idea inspired by The Secret by Rhonda Byrne that I wrote about in 2014 and included in my book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching. Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Extremely successful people swear by them.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2018

In fact, this was an idea inspired by The Secret by Rhonda Byrne that I wrote about in 2014 and included in my book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching. Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Extremely successful people swear by them.

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Android Libraries Social Media Video 226

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. A document that no one else has interpreted. Yet at the beginning of 2014, Ruth Cady became pregnant. But he does work in a library.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Now, Savard says, learning targets are clearer, and there’s more opportunity to truly understand the material.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Maybe you think removing upsetting books from school libraries is the best thing for your child. Your classroom libraries, core texts, optional reading, and on-the-fly suggestions have great power in developing your students’ love of reading, leading them to new understanding, and nurturing their empathy. Illinois (1987).

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Learning in Hand

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Episode 29: Free Images for Your Projects, recorded September 2014, happens now! The third library of free images I’m excited to show you is The Noun Project. One of the free apps you can use is called Documents 5 So on an iPad, you’d first find your icon in Safari and click Download. Choose to open the zip file in Documents 5.

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Android Libraries iPad Chromebook 87

techlearning

AUGUST 3, 2018

In fact, this was an idea inspired by The Secret by Rhonda Byrne that I wrote about in 2014 and included in my book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Small Steps to Transform Your Teaching. Canva – web tool and iPad app with a free library of stock images, stickers, and graphics. Extremely successful people swear by them.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Also important in this section was the important story of the National Research Council ( NRC )’s graduate school ranking research , which DeMillo presents as initially a powerful document, but tumbling down into an epic failure, at least in the most recent version (2010ff) (3519ff). Not everyone shares that damning view.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I like documenting and reflecting on what I learn, for future reference. My blog post goal for 2014? edtech #TLChat blogging Google librarians libraries school librarians tech tips writing' I get asked this question all of the time. Why do you blog? I enjoy it! That''s the #1 reason. My memory bank is sometimes unreliable.

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