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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

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A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. Currently, few studies have looked deeply into the benefits of flexible classroom design. What Is a Flexible Classroom?

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Blockchain in the Library? Researchers Explore Potential Applications

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Experts are speculating about its potential uses in business, law and education, and San José State University’s School of Information has received a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to find out whether blockchain could be useful for libraries. “I our ongoing virtual conference series.”

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It’s Time to Make Your Classroom Paper-free

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reduced waste: Most of those tons of paper end up in the trash. We want them to be recycled but studies show that despite best efforts, about half of used paper isn’t. Anecdotal experiences (no studies yet on this topic) indicate that teachers who file digitally rather than in paper file folders lose fewer documents.

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What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

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John Unsworth , dean of libraries and professor of English at the University of Virginia, who led the panel, put the total in perspective. In the day’s keynote address, Kate Zwaard, Chief of National Digital Initiatives at the Library of Congress, talked about scale and wonder in the digital era. That sounds like a lot of money.

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. And what’s more, students can collaborate on the platform.

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100+ Great Google Classroom Resources for Educators

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Google Classroom Research and White Papers. Learning to use, useful for learning: a usability study of Google apps for education. Journal of Usability Studies , 10 (4), 160-181. Library Hi Tech News , 32 (9), 1-3. 50 Things You Can Do with Google Classroom by Alice Keeler and Libbi Miller For beginners.

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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

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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 ). Establish a digital repository of Internet filtering studies. That’s where Banned Websites Awareness Day comes in. For high school.

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