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How can we ease tensions around book choice and school libraries?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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Making the Most of Distance Learning: 7 Tips to Share with Parents

Digital Promise

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Reading materials can include print or digital books, graphic novels, magazines, and online articles.

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3 ways to help give all students “information privilege”

eSchool News

“Access to an effective school library program is one example of information privilege. As I reflect on this challenge, I see three areas where public education can focus: Keep school libraries well-staffed. Public library access should be part of all students’ public school experiences. My family valued education and reading.

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7 Ways to Get Teens Reading in a Smartphone Culture

Edsurge

My kids are still young, but I’m always thinking of how to instill in them a passion for books, so I read on.on Most libraries also lend digital content these days; listening to audio books or podcasts in the car can spark an interest in reading, too. my smartphone. teenagers haven’t read a book for pleasure in the past year.

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It’s NOT About Google (Part 2) – SULS045

Shake Up Learning

How to Create Drag and Drop Activities with Google Slides. In fact, there’s a fantastic lesson from my book by Sylvia Duckworth, where she shares step-by-step how to do this. I think back to the days when we had to do all of our research in the library with index cards and the good old’ Dewey Decimal System.

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JournalTOCs and other “pushy” scholarly tools

NeverEndingSearch

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. My LJ TOC update.

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

Ask a Tech Teacher

It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. in the library as a research tool . Things I really like. for foreign language classes.

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