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

EdTech Magazine

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. What Is a Flexible Classroom? Photo: Nick Hagen. After Kelly Almer, an elementary school teacher for Littleton (Colo.)

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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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Introducing The Idealis, An Open-Access Journal for Library and Information Science Research

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There’s a new resource for librarians looking for high-quality, open-access library and information science research, The Idealis. Image At the library by Susanne Nilsson licensed CC-BY 2.0. ” You can consult their collaboratively written Editorial Guidelines and submit your work (or work that you know of) to the website.

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Customize Your Experience with the EdTech Insider Program

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Insiders can unlock access to white papers, view daily fast facts, save articles to read later and weigh in on trending topics through Insider polls. When content catches your eye but you don’t have time to read, tap or click a flag found on every article and video to save it in your library and quickly access it later.

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Mentoring Minds Launches Mobile App to Support Instruction and Student Success

eSchool News

Mentoring Minds , a leading provider of K-12 instructional and critical thinking materials, announces the availability of the Mentoring Minds Resource Library, a mobile app comprised of resources to support instruction and promote student success. The Mentoring Minds Resource Library includes over $1,000 worth of content, priced at $2.99

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If you do school library research, please help us birth a community

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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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Tech Solving the Intolerable Motionlessness of Reading

EdNews Daily

The motionlessness of written words shouldn’t be the first exposure schools give to reading because youth’s attention typically moves about and will rarely deflate to a full stop for flat words on paper. It’s like being on a wrong frequency with them, especially with something they cannot see, hear, touch or put in their mouths. A New Answer.

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