NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

And there seem to be a few go-to digital tools to support engagement, discovery and setting a fun and participatory tone for what library (and the librarian) looks like. Using GoosechaseEDU scavenger hunt platform for iPhone or Android , you can create a new game or copy and adapt games from templates in the Game Library.

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Libraries Gamification iPhone Advocacy 54

Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 21, 2015

“It was a fun event to get teens out to make them aware of everything different organizations around the city were offering during the summer, whether that be just drop-in programming like the library has or intensive types of programming or internships,” said Julie Koslowsky of the Chicago Public Library. and Catherine T.

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Libraries Advocacy Laptops Video 49

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Although they would eventually change their model to focus on traditionally copyrighted textbooks, FWK’s over 100 openly licensed textbooks can still be found archived around the web in places like the Open Textbook Library and the Saylor Foundation’s website. Effective Advocacy. What would higher education do in fall 2021?

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

The teacher facilitates the work, of course, but leaves as much of the decision-making as possible to the students. For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., Of course, a few quick lessons on how to find and evaluate information may help.).

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Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

Dropout 105

Dropout Policies Data Report 105

The Daring Librarian

APRIL 10, 2011

Of course one of them is QR Code focused! How to be a Presentation Ninja, Transliteracy, Advocacy & the Remix MashUp Revolution , Easy Animation for Dynamite Disposition & Program Promotion , the ever popular and soon to be newly updated - Gadget-A-Go-Go , and of course QR Codes in the Classroom (& the Library!)

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Conference Advocacy Libraries Course 46

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. For example, she said, “It’s not going to help a student to text them to take AP algebra if their high school doesn’t offer it.”

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Report Company Study Advocacy 86

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The sense I got is that reducing textbook costs isn’t enough anymore, the advocacy has moved on to eliminating them. For many years now what people call OER advocacy has actually been “zero textbook cost” advocacy. The US Department of Education’s Open Textbooks Pilot program is a great example.

Policies 99

Policies OER Advocacy Education 99

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Hatcher has propelled Akron Public Schools to the forefront of educational excellence, becoming a shining example of how innovative education technologies can truly make a difference in students’ lives. As the teacher librarian at RCCBA, Michelle also teaches elective courses in technology and information literacy skills to her students.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 97

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

For example, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about the future of learning materials writ large. In this vision of the world, OER replace traditionally copyrighted, expensive textbooks for all primary, secondary, and post-secondary courses. But from time to time I still step back and worry about field-level issues.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 73

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. Not to just sit in the library and do a long problem; it wasn’t about that for me.

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Advocacy Examples Course System 158

Reading By Example

APRIL 6, 2016

For example, schools post their mission and vision in the hallway about offering the best education for all students. Classroom libraries and school librarians are viewed as ancillary instead of the essential resources that they are. Our beliefs and our values in schools and districts are too often two different things. Source: Flickr.

Libraries 28

Libraries Policies Professional Learning Course 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Crow, Associate Professor of School Library Science / Dr. Lisa Kastello Low-Context Delivery, High-Context Classroom: Meeting the Challenges of the Global Classroom / Dr. Betsy Bannier, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics / Johnnie C Bannier, Jr., Gaudino, Ed.D., Uganda, and India / Dr. Sherry R.

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Conference Education Advocacy STEM 0

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Thursday, April 30th at 3pm Library 2.015 Spring Summit - The Emerging Future: Technology and Learning , The technology landscape changes rapidly, and these changes have economic, social, and ethical significance for individuals, organizations, and the entire world. Library 2.015 Spring Summit: This Week! Register for free at [link].

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Education Libraries Game-Based Learning Conference 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. “We should be spending more than any other state because we have more poverty — significantly more poverty.”.

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 56

MindShift

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. For example, she said, “It’s not going to help a student to text them to take AP algebra if their high school doesn’t offer it.”

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Company Report Study Advocacy 31

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Of course you do! Tom Allison, deputy policy and research director at the millennial advocacy group Young Invincibles, is skeptical of this argument. “I Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. You wanna buy a college education?

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Survey Policies Report Data 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In each of these examples, ingenuity, creativity and initiative were exercised outside of the formal context of the classroom. There is a need for increased flexibility—live lessons and self-paced projects, new tools for self advocacy and creative tech platforms. caretaking for a newborn sister with a single working parent at home.

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Learning Advocacy System Assessment 186

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

In Desert Sands, for example, they wanted to make sure all students could be connected no matter where they lived, but using different service providers—the typical solution—would prove costly over the years. Have smaller goals for each step of the plan so you can show progress to your community and see where you might need to course correct.

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Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Getting child care is simpler for student parents when they have a predictable schedule, for example, rather than classes that meet at different times on different days. Media and performance courses meet here. Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The library, for instance, has only books connected to the subjects of the classes.

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Report Meeting Study Course 61

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

He worked as a mental health counselor, a busboy in a bar, a team member at a Whole Foods and a cashier on the night shift at a diner while juggling a full slate of courses. Unpaid bills can be not only for tuition but also for room and board, fees, parking and library fines and other costs that students sometimes don’t know they owe.

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Policies Advocacy Report System 141

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Of course, there are technical aspects to protecting data, and as many schools have learned during the pandemic, district IT staff need to stay on top of evolving efforts to compromise systems. For example, the pandemic and forced distance learning have impacted social-emotional learning for many children. By Stacey Pusey.

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Data Student Data Privacy Policies Training 94

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In my recent post I asked us each to consider what “what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?” People certainly locate and learn from a wide range of resources in a wide range of informal settings in public libraries and online, but that’s not what I would call “adoption.” It will be used, of course.

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OER LMS Secondary Course 60

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Normally, many rural districts work with local libraries and businesses to provide students with WiFi hotspots. At Maury County Public Schools (TN), for example, families can check out WiFi-enabled devices for two weeks at a time. Today, the parents see the value and are more supportive of the digital transition.

BYOD 54

BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

They stayed at the library working until closing time because they didn’t have laptops. Moises has his own laptop, bought for him by the nonprofit that helped him apply to college, but he was also at the library till they kicked him out most nights. I never thought I’d be in a library for two hours every day.”.

Libraries 86

Libraries Laptops Training Report 86

MindShift

MAY 17, 2016

School libraries are no longer simply quiet places for students to study or check out printed materials. And school librarians aren’t just stocking library catalogues, they’re also ordering books for courses and supporting teachers with resources. They worked with publishers to offer an ebook sale, for example.

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eBook Libraries Industry Advocacy 29

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. Of course, no matter what individual states and districts allow, federal law still mandates grade-level-pegged testing. Quite often, so do parents.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Social and Cultural Literacy Courses and Curricula The providers below offer more comprehensive resources for media literacy, from courses (from just a few hours to weeks) to a curriculum linked to a scope and sequence and standards. Social and Cultural Literacy Organizations to Explore for More. = one of our favorite resources.

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Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Playful Learning: Games and the Future of STEM - Danny Fain, Teacher in Residence Redefining STEM Rubrics for the 21’st Century: It’s all about mastery! Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

edWeb.net

JULY 31, 2019

For example, in many schools, the bulk of users sign off at 3 p.m., Glenn encourages all students to have a voice, not only in building a school culture, but also in designing student-led courses. Support for students’ use of devices: It’s not just the students coming in with multiple devices; teachers and staff have them too.

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BYOD Data Software Training 42

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

That was utterly reasonable because, of course, he had a family to support and she didn’t. As an example of that: a good friend of mine has been teaching for 20 years now. Of course, the challenge in many cases is with that demographic pool, you can go 13 years of education in America and not have a single Black teacher.

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How To System Classroom Twitter 70

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2016

And while the progress is uneven and vulnerable to still more changes ahead — including a shift next year from grants to loans for students’ living expenses — how they have succeeded shows it can be done, and offers some examples of exactly how. students from affluent areas are 2.4 That’s up from six times more likely in 1970.

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Groups Secondary Study Report 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 91

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

A rule that took effect in California in July, for example, gives priority course registration at public universities and colleges to student-parents, who often need more scheduling flexibility than their classmates. Student-parents get to register first for courses. million people , are parents, the Urban Institute estimates.

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Libraries Report Policies Advocacy 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

For two years, the club, known as PRISM (People Respecting Individuality and Sexuality Meeting), gathered in the town’s public library, because its dozen members couldn’t find a faculty adviser to sponsor it. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy.

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Advocacy Report Libraries Policies 135

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Jaelyn Deas and her four best friends shared everything, including late-night study sessions in the library at San Jose State University and a never-ending preoccupation with how they’d pay for their tuition there. “It took a burden off my shoulders,” Deas says. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. SAN JOSE, Calif.

Education 98

Education Policies Course System 98

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 28, 2017

In the library, we focused on the importance of raising our voices when we have concerns. As students looked at example opinions and continued to gather facts, they started filling out organizers to get their own thoughts together. Finally, students came to the library to begin sharing their voice. “Don’t wait.

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Social Media Libraries Trends Study 50