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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. Add free manipulatives and lessons to your library first. When you find a manipulative, slide, or game that you want, it is as simple as adding it to your library. What is included in the Lumio library? Build Your Lessons in Lumio.

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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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Chromebox and Chromebase - definite contenders for desktop replacements

Educational Technology Guy

The libraries, a few computer labs, and desktops in the lower grade classes are the target. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. It''s just a matter of swapping out the "box". Since we have over 11,000 Chromebooks being used, this makes sense. It would take a lot of load off of my techs, and provide a great experience for users.

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How to Be an Ally in the Library: Recommend More Black Authors

Edsurge

Definitely more of an adult-audience sci-fi title, but oh-so-good!). I’ll fill up my Twitter feed with resources like The Brown Bookshelf and We Need Diverse Books. I’ve read this one before, but I’d love to view it through new eyes. “ The Book Itch: Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore ” by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson. “

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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. These are probably the best you can ever find online. This is a work in progress.

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8 Ways to Engage Readers with Readlee’s AI Reading Teacher Support

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Additionally, there is a continually growing Readlee library you can select from as well. ( When students struggle with reading, they often struggle with even receiving feedback from teachers, so teacher audio feedback is definitely a best practice. .