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Lumio: Making Review and Practice Easy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In both plans, you get access to all of the features, so it is a perfect time to set up an account and try it out.) Add free manipulatives and lessons to your library first. What is included in the Lumio library?

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How a Middle School Library Promotes Maker Learning for All Students

Digital Promise

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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#DLNchat: What Is the Role of Libraries in Digital Learning Innovation?

Edsurge

Will we wander through VR stacks in the library of the future? Will the library’s computer lab become a makerspace? Those were just a couple of the questions raised on Tuesday, February 27 when the #DLNchat community got together to discuss: What Is the Role of Libraries in Digital Learning Innovation?

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Best Professional Development Tools for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Free eBooks and Audiobooks To grow professionally you definitely need to invest time and effort in learning new skills and competencies besides enriching your the knowledge base of your content area with new insights and state of the art research. However, several of the academic platforms do offer open access resources and research papers.

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Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula

EdTech Magazine

Edtech spoke with Leila Nuland, managing research director for K-12 at Hanover research to discuss some of the trends surrounding computer science in K–12 and how to overcome issues of accessibility and underrepresentation in certain populations. There are enough challenges with equitable access.

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3 Essentials for Success in a Blended [Literacy] Classroom

The Web20Classroom

This Blended Learning approach is both beneficial but its definition can be tough to nail down. A repository of accessible resources, information, and tools that students can utilize during learning. When students have endless access to information and texts everyone wins. You can follow her on Twitter @shfarnsworth Steven W.

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” –from the American Library Association. NorthstarDigLit.