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Friday 5: The pivotal role of school libraries

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Having access to the skills needed to decode text and other media impacts our students now and forever. All our students should have access to a school library and a certified librarian to help improve reading levels and foster critical thinking and source analysis. Here are 10 reasons to love your school librarians.

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Personalizing history for more impactful student learning

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This is a great opportunity to partner with other teachers as well as your school’s media center/library resource staff. From there, the students should consult academic journals or models for historical analysis, then bring their perspective into their conclusions.

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What Brings Gen Z to the Library?

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Ninety-two percent check social media daily. But they still like print, and they still like to go to the library, according to a survey of Gen Z and Millennial public library use and media consumption released by the American Library Association last fall. Using anonymized Occuspace data from 38 universities in the U.S.

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Why I’m Integrating the World Cup Into My English Class, Despite My Disinterest in Sports

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All too often, the books on these reading centered traumatizing and marginalizing protagonists. While our students of color experience marginalization, they may not center their academic and extracurricular pursuits on it. If this is what they’re doing when they play a game, imagine the level of analysis that goes into watching one.

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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources 

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Easy-to-follow instructions guide students through data collection, measurement, data analysis, and interpretation, while feedback provided by both open-ended and auto-graded questions reinforces correct ideas.  Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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Much ado about NAEP

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Below is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) graph of daily COVID cases in the U.S. But that’s a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES. Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic.

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What Role Does Social Media Use Play in the Youth Mental Health Crisis? Researchers Are Trying to Find Out

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Much attention has been paid to the potential role of social media in that crisis. The research that we do have is inadequate in terms of helping us understand the ways in which the internet and social media affect youth well-being.” If we change kids’ social media use, will that change their mental health?