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4 ways library media specialists lead digital transformations in districts

eSchool News

During the pandemic era of “emergency teaching,” school systems across my state and around the country made deep investments in edtech resources. In New Hampshire, library media specialists are playing a key role in driving edtech ROI. Added benefit can result when library media specialists meet as a district team periodically.

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Literature-Map: Help students find new authors to fall in love with

iLearn Technology

What it is: Literature Map is a literature recommendation system. Literature Map is a great site to bookmark on classroom computers, in the library, or on student devices. It is really easy to discover a new author. The closer that two writers are on the map, the more likely it is that you will like both of them.

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Digital Badges: credentialing the things that make us fully human

iLearn Technology

because it brings us so many books and expands our classroom libraries and feeds our students desire to read. Credly is an end-to-end credential and badge management system. A distinction was made between standards (expecting a high-quality) and standardization (repetition, everyone being a cog in the system).

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Do you want to form an alliance with me? (Version 3.0)

iLearn Technology

Why were we still stuck in a system of the boxed, one-size-fits-all curriculum? After a few months, I faced down a painful truth: we do not have an education system designed to see students as individuals. Book of Choice- Choose from our library of books from the authors that keep our curiosity alive!

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Do you want to form an alliance with me? (Version 3.0)

iLearn Technology

Why were we still stuck in a system of the boxed, one-size-fits-all curriculum? After a few months, I faced down a painful truth: we do not have an education system designed to see students as individuals. Book of Choice- Choose from our library of books from the authors that keep our curiosity alive!

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2014 Global Education Conference Starts Today - Day 1 Schedule

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Monte Tatom; Director of iLearn Program & Associate Professor of Education Educomunicación, Identidad y cultura - Antonia Rosa Díaz-Ciencias de la Educación- Estudiante universitaria y docente en Educación Secundaria MY HERO presents New Media Technology for Global and Local Activism! .

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Teacher Recommended: 50 Favorite Classroom Apps

MindShift

Luhtala has used augmented reality to attach student-created video book reviews to titles in the library. iLearn United States : This game-like app has a learn mode and a game mode. This is essentially a huge e-book library. This has been highly effective in the elementary library,” Luhtala said.

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