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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Open Registry of K-12 Learning Standards State academic standards help define the learning objectives for U.S. These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. K-12 learners.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

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They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Using multiple systems and apps.

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2017’s Ho-Hum, Unremarkable, But Too-Often Ignored Lessons in Education Technology

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There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality. District purchases of hardware and software continue to go up.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate. Why Are School Libraries Important in the Information Age?