Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 27, 2019

UNESCO later decided to refer to open content intended to support research, teaching, and learning as “open educational resources.” They were relatively easy to tell apart from one another and advocacy was rather straight forward. For example, some schools have ZTC policies and ZTC degree programs. yellow below).

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The Daring Librarian

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Letters for Libraries: It''s Not Just About Books. Funding for school libraries and funding for other student literacy programs (like the National Writing Project) is being threatened both federally and in states across the country. of Education **AskArne@ed.gov** " Improving Literacy for School Libraries will no longer be available.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For example, a friend states, “My child is quiet, and doesn’t like to socialize often. They may also enjoy quiet trips to a museum, visiting the local library, taking music lessons, painting, and quiet reading spaces. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. He’s too shy.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 31, 2022

Leveraging the “No Significant Difference” Effect for OER Advocacy. As I eventually wrote in Open educational resources: Undertheorized research and untapped potential : Many of the articles reviewed in Hilton (2016), including some articles on which I was an author, are woefully undertheorized.

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Buncee

JANUARY 11, 2019

She will be sharing how Buncee fits into the different wedges and literacy within the FRL framework and stories of using Buncee in her library along the way. You will see examples of Newsletters, reminders, and green screen backgrounds used in Andy's Class. Lead From the Library With Creative Branding and Marketing.

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Advocacy Future Ready Libraries Blended Learning 43

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2023

For example, its annual Homecoming celebrations were hard to pull off virtually, she says. It’s an undertaking from the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), a philanthropy that supports HBCUs through scholarships to students, grants to higher ed institutions and advocacy for educating African Americans. None of them speak ‘Black space.’

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. based education advocacy group. “It Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2011

This is our official call for presentations for the Library 2.011 conference, November 2 - 3, 2011. The Library 2.011 conference will be a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on the current and future state of libraries. We encourage all to participate, and ask that you share this information where appropriate.

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Libraries Conference Blackboard Training 43

eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Guide shares best tech practices, insights, and resources from educators, administrators, and technology experts. Plans should include goals and objectives, action steps, who is responsible for each step, and resources that support goals. How to set up a tech committee to evaluate needs and resources. •

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How To Advocacy Tools Survey 65

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

It’s why mobile access has been one of the most important means of connecting students to their academic resources. Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials.

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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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 29, 2020

Advocacy in the home, school, community, state, and country.” This week of legislative advocacy with CEC has me revved up for more grass-roots advocacy in the home, school, community, state, and country. Host Rebecca Muller, Special Educator and Advocate. Let's get together and discuss how we all CAN make a difference!

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Advocacy Classroom Conference STEM 36

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

However, Bitcoin is not synonymous with blockchain, nor is it even necessarily the best example or tool for every blockchain application. Management and tracking of school assets (like property, buses, furniture, textbooks, library books/journals, and technology). Schools lose track of things – all the time.

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Education Industry Sony Policies 281

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Tapping these funding sources can be a challenge, especially for smaller districts, but there are resources and other types of support available. In 2010 the FCC appointed her to the USAC board representing the nation’s schools and libraries on ERATE. Accessing the E-Rate and Matching State Funds. Sheryl Abshire, Ph.D.,

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E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A priority was to give students seamless connection to the digital collections of the Lexington Public Library that serves our local area. The platform we selected—OverDrive Education’s Sora reading app —aligns with our public library system for easy access to its wealth of digital materials.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

“Nobody knows the right path forward,” said Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education , a nonpartisan education research center in Seattle that has compiled an online database of coronavirus response plans provided by scores of districts across the country as a resource for other educators. Inequity looms large.

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Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 69

Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

For example, as I described in my book, one group of students at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Ill., While many of the examples are about giving time or money, any of them can be expanded into larger efforts for substantive change. Another resource? Step 2—Researching the Issue.

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Advocacy Examples Survey Groups 69

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. Long Beach City College, for example, has forgiven $2.1

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Dropout Policies Data Report 104

SpeechTechie

MAY 2, 2014

Tony Vincent , an amazing resource on technology integration and the author of Stick Around (in partnership with Explain Everything creators Morris Cooke), definitely sees these connections between language and learning, and has presented for our peeps at conferences such as those held by the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities in Florida.

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iPad Advocacy Libraries Conference 98

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. Open Up Resources and EngageNY).

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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. In fall 2019, Michelle became the Content Lead for CRCSD’s 32 school libraries. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Dr. Dana T.

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Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 101

The Daring Librarian

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Tech Terms Here: I love me s ome traditional research resources! (IE: IE: the hard copy books of the reference section of our library) I do! No examples of real world use. Another step forward in Web Presence and Advocacy - & yes, Socialnomics: be where your customers are. but no explanation. No definition.

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Advocacy Facebook Study Libraries 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Nancy Loome, executive director and founder of the Parents’ Campaign, a nonprofit and grassroots education advocacy organization. In Mississippi, she said, there is debate about how much more resources schools require, but few dispute that there is a need. But next fiscal year is already clouded by uncertainty.

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Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 56

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.

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Policies OER Advocacy Education 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

Wednesday, April 29th at 4pm Common Sense Media Webinar: Helping Students Make Good Digital Decisions with Digital Compass , Join Common Sense Education for a webinar to celebrate the launch of their newest free education resource, Digital Compass. Library 2.015 Spring Summit: This Week! Register for free at [link].

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Education Libraries Game-Based Learning Conference 28

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 8, 2016

The session got me wondering why so few of us seem to be gathering podcasts as resources for teachers and parents and our libraries. We look forward to discovering more ways to collaborate and create educational resources and grow and improve. Why aren’t we presenting and curating podcasts series for kids to discover?

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Edcamps Advocacy Exercises Survey 40

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.

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Libraries Policies Professional Learning Course 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Publicity resources, along with images you can use, are HERE. 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., and the world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In Rochester, for example, just 6.7 If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. She points out, however, that they do get a period of music, art, physical education or library time every day. In Syracuse, 10.9

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

And that was another real experience that showed me what advocacy can do. So I was able to take algebra, for example, in eighth grade, which put me on the trajectory to make it all the way to statistics past calculus once I got in high school. So it’s advocacy that really changed my life. What does that example show?

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Advocacy Examples Course System 159

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

In fact, in the face of our unprecedented situation, PSLA President, Cathi Fuhrman recently shared a space for sharing Reopening Plans or Protocols and a space to view the submitted examples. Pen Argyl school libraries are where you find the pulse of the schools. Librarians are masters of curating and organizing resources.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

Learning With Lucie

MARCH 2, 2016

First on the agenda — INSPIRATION from PI Innovators and brainstorming about how to use the resources provided by the Computer History Museum. I had come to Pi Academy with several questions, one of which was — how could I use the Pi to support my advocacy for getting more girls involved with tech.

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Advocacy Groups Technology Support System 40

edWeb.net

AUGUST 19, 2021

Strong support from the board meant the districts had the resources (people, money, and time) as well as the mandate to ensure digital equity. At Santa Fe, they focused their efforts and resources on innovators and early adopters—people who were willing to do the change. Leadership. Innovation.

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Advocacy BYOD Accessibility Strategy 84

edWeb.net

JUNE 29, 2022

Louisa County Public Schools is committed to supporting the success of all students and families, and a perfect example of that commitment is the district’s Wireless on Wheels units, also known as WOW. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. Innovation.

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Strategy Digital Divide BYOD Advocacy 79

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

In this collection, you'll find hand-picked, regularly updated resources to help you better understand and practice these important social and cultural literacies. At the top, there are featured resources as well as more comprehensive curricula. one of our favorite resources. Research on Social and Cultural Literacy.

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Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

He was resourceful and creative, yet he was prevented from graduating with his classmates in June because he didn’t complete a half credit of an art class. In each of these examples, ingenuity, creativity and initiative were exercised outside of the formal context of the classroom.

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Learning Advocacy System Assessment 189