The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

During his career as a secondary school computer science teacher, he inspired students to create games and apps for social causes and implemented initiatives to broaden participation in computer science among underrepresented groups. It's not just out there on its own. It's not just the OpenAI website on its own.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

Sarah Culp Searles, Supervisor of Library Media Services for Knox County Schools (TN), pointed out that many teachers don’t feel they have room in the curriculum for curiosity-borne projects, especially when there is an emphasis on teaching efficiently, generating high grades, and sticking to a schedule.

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Learning Secondary Trends Report 77

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Tech ed is a change agent.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Learning 152

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. As an encyclopedia, it is a tertiary source.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

iLearn Technology

MAY 8, 2017

How to integrate Check 123 into your classroom: Check123 is a great place for students to begin their research. Check123 is a great one to keep bookmarked on classroom and library computers for quick reference. The short format gives students just enough information to whet their appetites and encourage additional questioning.

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Video Libraries Student Engagement Classroom 64

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

I’d venture to say that most of us could stand to learn a little more about ESSA and its potential for school libraries and the communities we serve. Deb’s presentation ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act: Implications for School Library Programs , shares critical background on the ESSA reauthorization and a plan for moving forward.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

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. Current awareness is now an end-user activity.

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Tools Microsoft Libraries Secondary 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

I mean, how could you even say that? They’re learning how to be global citizens. You can’t be a citizen in this world without learning how to get along with others. Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher. This is such a great project. Let’s connect.

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Education Chromebook Microsoft Company 192

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award.

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Future Ready Libraries Professional Learning Personalized Learning 45

Reading By Example

MARCH 30, 2019

Definitely a book to have in the secondary classroom library to build diversity and cultural relevance. A succinct and readable summary of how beliefs drive our actions and how people can change them. Write Smart, Write Happy: How to Become a More Productive, Resilient and Successful Writer by Cheryl St.

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Secondary Trends Study Course 36

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

She also gives us the language for how to help students strengthen their writing with strong verbs and concrete language as they create their audio gifts. Listen to Dr. Sarah Levine teach us how to better teach writing with digital media. Episode a 767, how to teach writing, using digital media. Stream by clicking here.

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How To Examples Secondary Resources 367

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

Session will also include a brief how-to on Google+ and a brainstorming activity of ways to implement Google+ with students. David Simpson ([link] will discuss the use of facebook and other social networking sites in education and the need for/issues around digital citizenship education in Secondary schools. link] CLASSROOM 2.0

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Blackboard MOOC Digital Citizenship Secondary 48

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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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” A growing number of states and local communities are examining how to shift to student-centered, competency-based learning systems. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans.

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System Competency Based Learning Education Assessment 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

per semester for what it calls Cengage Unlimited, its full e-library, and another $50 for access to a related homework system that professors often assign with the textbook. Since then, the platform has grown to include soft skill guides on subjects including how to improve study skills or how to prepare for the job market.

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Accessibility Pearson Secondary E-rate 202

ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In order to set up a perfect viewing distance, first be aware of ocular accommodation and convergence, which reference involuntary eye functions when too close to an object. How to ensure the best positioning for your computer screen. When it comes down to it, the screen’s angle is more or less its height in reference to the user.

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Trends Secondary STEM Libraries 489

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Learn more about our MiniCon events and how to sign up for these fun presentation opportunities here. Learn more here.

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Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. Then they read and discuss a poem, “What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade,” which starts like this: Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer.

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Libraries Study Exercises Course 160

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes).

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Libraries Handbook Policies Study 93

MindShift

OCTOBER 20, 2015

But on her first day, she says, “my mentor teacher, she came in, we talked for a few minutes, and she was like, ‘OK, I’ll be in the library from now on.’ Understanding math and knowing how to teach it are two separate skills. And understanding how to teach math well doesn’t come naturally. And just like that, I was by myself.

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Training Elementary Secondary Analysis 28

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Summer PD: The Tech-infused Teacher is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-12 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Tech in ed is a change agent.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

During this project we’ll work through how to design SDG research projects, build partnerships with community organizations and collaborate with other educators passionate about the SDGs. Kimm will share resources and show participants how to join a community of educators ready to take action.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TweetUps. Summer PD is for credentialed and non-credentialed K-8 teachers, tech teachers/integration specialists, library media specialists, and pre-service professionals. Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach?

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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Tools Khan Academy Libraries Twitter 150

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

While I would personally say the task of curating a classroom library has been easier as a 2nd-grade teacher, I still have students spanning kindergarten-4th grade reading levels. I love my classroom library. The levels here refer to guided reading levels. It is my pride and joy.

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Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!), Please join us!

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history. A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library. Related: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145