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Will school reform improve the schools?
Oct 18th
I may be a librarian, but I am also an educator and care about the future of our public school system. Educator friends have been posting links to tweets and writings by Diane Ravitch through social networks, and I was intrigued by her conclusions. When I heard she was coming to KU, I made sure I could make it.
I took stream of consciousness notes tonight, and hope I captured the words she was saying the best I could. If anyone discovers errors — please let me know! The lecture was well worth my time, and I look forward to More >
100 Informative & Inspiring YouTube Videos for Educators
Aug 8th
If you need a weekend/new month starting pick-me-up, ideas for professional development, training, or student inspiration ice-breakers, you might find the videos on the list of 100 Informative and Inspiring YouTube Videos for Educators inspiring and useful. Several are TEDTalks, including several of my favorites by Sir Ken Robinson and Adora Svitak.
The videos cover the topics of creativity and learning, technology, philosophy and social studies, educational excellence, inspiration for teachers, science and math, language arts, special education, physical education, and business education and entrepreneurship.
They are focused for education, but really, they are for anyone interested in learning.
Finally, the Accredited Online Colleges blog that this More >
The Future of Education (inspiration from RWW)
Jun 16th
The question becomes: is the future of the news industry tied to the technology or is technology an enabler to creating human networks that spread information?
This quote comes from a ReadWriteWeb article about Andy Carvin’s work these past six months, as he has built an incredible network on Twitter to tell the story of the Middle East protests and revolution.
It’s an excellent article to read and if you haven’t heard of Andy Carvin’s ground-breaking and important work, check out one profile piece on him.
With that said, I read the quote above, and thought in light of yesterday’s Summer Institute sessions (notes Part 1, More >
Librarians Know How to Find Stuff
Jun 15th
Using Innovative Techniques to Promote Information Literacy and Student Buy-in
Matt Upson (formerly of Miller Library, McPherson College) and C. Michael Hall (who couldn’t be present)
Creators of Library of the Living Dead
Guide can be printed from here
Downloaded 1.3 million times. Cited in LJ, SLJ, ALA journals.
This isn’t how to make a comic. It’s more to inspire the audience to do what works for their libraries & inspire creativity. The comic book worked for McPherson College.
Developing the relationships.
Quotes from Education Nation; one by George Lucas in the foreword & George Leonard quote on p21.
“We want students to know how to find information, More >
The Technology Edge: Leading Innovation in Our School from the Olathe East HS Library
Jun 15th
Note: Her slides will be posted to slideshare. I’ll embed them here when they’re uploaded.
Lori Franklin, Olathe East HS Library, Olathe KS [Also Ph.D. student, working on dissertation on 21st Century Learning, I believe]
Uncharted
- We know what is availble to us in terms of hw, sw, and experiences
- What we actually do not know is where we could actually end up on our journey…
The questions…
- Whose job is it to determine the journey’s end point and success level?
- The Teacher?
- The Student?
- The Team?
Talking to students. Filters are insulting to the students. If they’re filtered on the school computers, they won’t use them. They have their smartphones, that More >
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