The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 19, 2011

For the administrator who would like a general, not-too-technical overview of digital technology and social media, the book What School Leaders Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media , edited by Scott McLeod and Chris Lehmann is the answer.

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ViewSonic Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

No matter if you’re working on a computer, browsing social media, or reading this post, your eyes are constantly exposed to the glare of digital devices. According to a GWI survey , individuals aged 16 to 64 spend an average of 6 hours and 37 minutes daily on their screens.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. But the decline in book reading might not be the main culprit in our national comprehension problem.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 25, 2023

Image Source: Pixabay A growing disconnect Numerous surveys indicate the increased fragility of student engagement in recent years. One 2021 survey found that 50% of students felt less motivated than before the pandemic (87% of teachers agreed that it had negatively impacted student motivation). According to the survey by Kahoot!,

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How To Classroom Survey Gamification 88

NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The News Study findings are the result of an online survey of 5,844 respondents and telephone interviews with 37 participants from 11 diverse colleges and universities. There are many pathways to news–not only on social media. Students share news on social media as stewards of what’s important to know.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 19, 2015

Discussed at last year’s CLASS (Causality: School Libraries and Student Success) Summit, the project is realized and described as one of three goals in the CLASS White Paper : Goal 3: To outline mechanisms by which a community of scholars can be cultivated and nurtured toward furthering the research agenda and its activities.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 9, 2018

Audit your student’s access: Draw up a short survey, (try the one on page 11 of this study ) that your students fill in. Starting a social media account. This will give you an accurate picture of the access needs and opportunities amongst your student population. How online shopping works. The basics of online research.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 12, 2016

One of the goals of the Barrow Elementary Media Center is to support the reading habits and curiosities of students, teachers, and families. During the school year, our library is a huge source of reading, but I often wonder what I can do to continue to support reading during the summer months when students are at home.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 12, 2016

One of the goals of the Barrow Elementary Media Center is to support the reading habits and curiosities of students, teachers, and families. During the school year, our library is a huge source of reading, but I often wonder what I can do to continue to support reading during the summer months when students are at home.

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Libraries Survey Social Media Elementary 28

Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning. For example, in a survey investigating the impact of collaboration in the learning of secondary school Statistics, one school found out that students had a 11.8% When done right, learning as a team works.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The Learning Revolution and School of Information at San José State University are excited to announce the first of three Library 2.016 mini-conferences: "Privacy in the Digital Age," March 16th, 2016, from 12:00 - 3:00pm US-Pacific Time (click for your own time zone). Please also join this Library 2.0 This is a free event.

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Libraries Survey Report Social Media 28

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

When I asked you about your problems on this year’s reader survey, here was your answer: I’ll keep writing productivity tips for you. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. Angela’s given me a copy of her getting started guide that you can download. What are people saying?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 2, 2020

Date and Time: Thursday, March 26th, 4:00 pm Eastern Registration: No registration is required, just make sure you’re a member of Library 2.0 You will need to be logged into Library 2.0 She was named a 2019 Mover & Shaker by Library Journal. to participate in the webinar or watch the recording afterwards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2017

In fact, over half of parents say it’s essential especially when looking at data showing kids don’t know how to stay safe or why they should (from Smart Social ): 92% of teens post their real name on their online profiles. It should be part of every teacher’s library. No wonder parents are frightened.

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The Daring Librarian

MAY 5, 2010

The Library in Your Pocket: Mobile Trends for Libraries View more presentations from Meredith Farkas. Information Wants To Be Free Website The above slideshare preso is from a talk for Western New York Library Resources Council’s "Gadgets and Gear: A Tech Gathering" - May 7, 2010 And it BLEW me AWAY! Mobile Libraries!

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 8, 2018

This is also a good time of year to do a short email survey to parents to check for things like message frequency (too much or too little), preferred method of delivery, and other ways they’d like to be communicated with like social media. Only 42% find it effective in a survey from SchoolMessenger. )

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The study, which surveyed 1,004 teachers in the United States, shows the majority to be enthusiastic and eager about the potential of incorporating this technology in the classroom, but remain unsure of where to start. Canva Education Library: More than 5,000 new free classroom resources across Maths, Science, Art and Design curriculums.

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MindShift

AUGUST 31, 2020

About 73% of Deaf and Hard of Hearing children live in homes where family members do not regularly sign, according to a 2014 national survey by Gallaudet University. TDE has also partnered with another nonprofit, ASLized , to sponsor Deaf people of color to submit original ASL stories for the ASLized library. .

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. This is typically done by sharing documentation of learning and final reflections through social media. They may interview, do observations or survey them about the problem. Post by Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D.

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The Daring Librarian

JUNE 5, 2011

Survey Says! We''ve crowdsourced the survey with over 100 of our PLN answering questions using a Google Form and will be going head-to-head boys against the girls to see if we can guess what the top learning tools will be AND give on the spot examples of how to utilize those learning tools in the classroom! This is gonna be GROOVY!

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2019

One in 3 parents surveyed in a 2018 PDK Poll say they feared for their students’ safety—nearly three times the percentage in 2013. Filters Are Not Failsafe When it comes to digital and online safety, schools often rely on web and social media monitoring tools. Over the years, Impero Software, a U.K.-based

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 25, 2019

I recently wrote about how we took a survey to help me find books that might match the students as readers. Book Snaps can be posted to any variety of social media and the caption can be used to further explain the meaning of the image you have created. Students used Airdrop to send the pictures to my phone.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

Library closures hit patrons hard—especially those who relied on them as their main internet source and used them to access online educational resources. Libraries Close, Internet Access Ends There have been several studies about how the lack of fast home broadband has hurt kids’ access to online learning during school closures.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As a librarian, Torres feels strongly that libraries should be spaces of liberation, places where students can develop a love of reading at any stage. Build an inclusive library. Can you empower your students to take control of the library and have a say in what’s purchased for the collection? That’s not our role.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Libraries can now change the look and feel of their websites instantly with the release of Stacks , a hosted, turnkey web content management system designed specifically for libraries. Stacks is available through EBSCO Information Services , empowering libraries to engage their patrons anytime, anywhere. Read more.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 22, 2018

A few days back I kinda jumped on a social media bandwagon reposting the Jimmy Kimmel video, Can you name a book? Kimmel referred to a Pew survey released in March that explored Who Doesn’t Read Books in America? In what ways might a local replication of this survey yield meaningful reflection and learning?

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 2, 2019

As often as not, those blogs live outside of the school library world. Since 2013, Jennifer Gonzales has been regularly blowing my mind with her thoughtful blend of effective classroom strategies and what’s new on the horizon that you can use in your classroom or library tomorrow. by Jennifer Gonzales. by Terry Heick.

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Hubbli

JUNE 29, 2015

Some ideas to draw out (seems counter-intuitive, I know) parent complaints and concerns in a constructive, non-confrontational way: Surveys. Not everyone will respond, but those will who have something to say and unlike the internet, anonymity doesn’t make people mean in a survey. Social media. It makes them honest.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Other clients have included Queens Public Library in New York and Chobani, which famously employs refugees at its U.S. billion valuation , says the bite-size lessons that its app offers in 36 languages compete largely with social media platforms and mobile games for people’s time and attention.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. The folks we interviewed across library land curated in several different ways and we used the term curation differently depending on current community needs or where they were in any particular project.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Voices can be recorded, and talking Vokis can be emailed and shared on social media. In a recent Oddcast survey of teachers who have used Voki in the classroom, teachers pointed to the importance of using Voki, with 71 percent saying that using Voki “excites students making them more apt to learn.” and around the world.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of the other beautiful things about the community is we know we have teachers who are anti-social-media. They don’t use any social media platforms, and we do a lot on our social media. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

One of the other beautiful things about the community is we know we have teachers who are anti-social-media. They don’t use any social media platforms, and we do a lot on our social media. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions.

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Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 9, 2016

The site offers a basic icon library as well as the ability to import your own icons. US Geological Survey historical topographical maps. New York Public Library Map Warper. If Timeline JS doesn’t recognize a media URL, it will use Embed.ly Timelines may include descriptions, images, media, and tags.

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Tools Social Media Libraries Handbook 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. These methods yield solid data, but it’s a slow process, often lagging behind what’s happening in the job market right this minute.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) designated the Wednesday of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Banned Books Week as Banned Websites Awareness Day (BWAD, pronounced bee-wad ). Conduct research to explore the educational uses of social media platforms and assess the impact of filtering in schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

Social Media (pressures and responsible use). Suite360 is comprised of a robust, professionally-developed library of articles, videos, heuristics (immersive learning modules), pre- and post- assessments, surveys and other content engagement methods that offer students and parents myriad ways to consume important content.

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