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AnswerGarden » ...- Plant a Question, Grow Answers! Generate a live word cloud with your audience. School Libraries and Their Influence on School Culture. School culture refers to the way teachers and other staff members work together and the set of beliefs, values, and assumptions they share.

School Libraries and Their Influence on School Culture

A positive school climate and school culture promote students’ ability to learn (ASCD, 2017). Students, staff, administration, and parents are influential to the school culture, but so is the facility, the history, and the community. Each component can have a positive or negative effect on the school culture, but none can take the entire credit or blame for the school culture. Designing Digital Media for Teaching and Learning – An Open Online Course for Educators. Education Update:Does Homework Help?:Five Ways to Strengthen Student Questioning. Digital Youth Network. The Role Of The School Librarian In Teaching And Learning. Bringing Educators Together Nationwide. Our goal is to inspire, motivate, and encourage every school to connect its library program and professionals with all areas of education.

Bringing Educators Together Nationwide

We're sharing our mission with educational leaders everywhere, determined to shed light on strong libraries while helping others find the best solutions to questions about technology, digital content and effective teaching and learning. We established a Librarian Leadership Committee that developed our Project Connect Framework designed to define and prepare any librarian for a future ready world.

Download the Project Connect Framework [PDF] >> Who we are: As part of Project Connect, we address critical educational challenges by promoting future ready innovation and sharing progressive, exemplar models around school libraries and librarianship. 3 Ways Educators Can Embrace Social Media to Increase Engagement. You don’t often see social media and the classroom mentioned together in the same sentence — unless it’s to say one doesn’t have a place in the other.

3 Ways Educators Can Embrace Social Media to Increase Engagement

The reality is social media is engrained in all we do. In spite of that, only 13 percent of K–12 teachers were reported by Education Week’s Market Brief to use social media in the classroom. The latest statistics from MDR’s State of the K–12 Market 2015 report show that 21 percent of school districts have implemented a bring-your-own-device policy, and that number is only expected to rise. Go Beyond The Book. Why Makerspaces Are Perfect for School and Public Libraries – The Tech Edvocate. Makerspaces have become one of the latest trends for libraries as they continue to adapt to the changing needs of users. Like other library services, makerspaces have developed as the needs of library users have expanded from print resources and traditional services to include a variety of digital formats and services.

The Myth of the Digital Native. In our digital world, where anyone with a little know-how can post unverified stories online and frame them as fact, when solid web design can make an advertisement seem like an article, and the question of what is and what is not "fake news" seems to come up on a daily basis, how do young people — "digital natives" — vet all the information in front of them?

The Myth of the Digital Native

"It's not just the question of real or fake, but it's the broader question of how do all of us evaluate the information that comes to us via screens," says Stanford Professor Sam Wineburg, founder of the Stanford History Education Group and lead author of a recent study measuring students' evaluation of digital content. "The choice before us is more complicated than a simple binary of real or fake. 10 EdTech Resource Lists for Teachers. By Jessica Carrell Having worked as a teacher for years, I am impressed by how rapidly technology is changing classroom teaching and learning experience.

10 EdTech Resource Lists for Teachers

Countless EdTech tools have been created to make educators’ lives easier, and I’m excited to see the even more innovative and intelligent products that will be developed, even as soon as in the next year. For example, last year EdTech Magazine reviewed a few trends like Virtual Reality (VR), 3D printing and wearable devices that could affect classrooms in both K–12 and higher education—and in reality it’s already happening. However two things surprise me while browsing the internet looking for resources: Education Update:Does Homework Help?:Five Ways to Strengthen Student Questioning. Future Ready Librarians as Instructional Partners. When I first saw the Alliance for Excellent Education’s Future Ready Librarians Framework, I was excited to note the inclusion of “Collaborative Leadership” and “Builds Instructional Partnerships” as descriptors of an excellent school librarian.

Future Ready Librarians as Instructional Partners

These are two areas of the job that I enjoy the most, so their inclusion only seemed natural to me. I do recognize, however, that some librarians’ strength may lie in other areas of the Framework, like “Budgets and Resources” or “Community Partnerships,” and that coming alongside teachers in an instructional partner role might feel a little intimidating. I also recognize that there are many classroom teachers who have never, for whatever reason, been exposed to the power of a collaborative relationship with the school librarian and may not naturally seek him or her out.

Classroom teachers: You may be asking yourself what the benefit of partnering with a school librarian for instructional design or lesson delivery might be. Image Credit. How Showing and Telling Kids ‘I Believe in You’ Can Empower Them at School. The excerpt below is from the book “Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students’ Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching,” by Jo Boaler.

How Showing and Telling Kids ‘I Believe in You’ Can Empower Them at School

This excerpt is from the chapter entitled “Teaching Mathematics for a Growth Mindset.” Are librarians the key to a Future Ready school? According to the U.S.

Are librarians the key to a Future Ready school?

Department of Education’s Office of Education Technology, librarians are at the forefront of helping schools become future ready. Genrefication, or, Making our Library More Reader Friendly - BubbleUp Classroom. Why Not Unleash the Instructional Leadership of Librarians to Foster Future Ready Schools? - Future Ready Schools. Using and Leveraging YA Lit across High School Disciplines. ReadWorks.

TIPC 062211 DRAFT. Bloomboard. Edcamp Library - Home. Why Edcamp? 6 Easy Steps for Setting Up Google Portfolios. Technology is allowing students to express themselves in ways never imagined.

6 Easy Steps for Setting Up Google Portfolios

One way to get students to think about the learning process is to have them create portfolios, which not only lets them exhibit their understanding of deep content for others to see, but also encourages them to reflect on their own progress and growth over time. Digital portfolios are gaining ground. They can be edited continuously, they follow students from grade to grade, and they are easier than ever to create and maintain. Google Sites can get students started with building electronic portfolios. SU14 Flyer StudentTop10 Print.

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Teaching As Daily Experimentation – Medium. By VICTOR PEREIRA When I think of my role as a teacher, I consider my dual roles: a high-school science teacher and an instructor who prepares new teachers to teach science.

Teaching As Daily Experimentation – Medium

These roles are very different, and each offers its own set of rewards and challenges. At the same time, I approach each with the same two mindsets: Teaching Is Learning and Teaching Is a Science. I am a scientist by training. I am a constructor and designer by passion. Teaching Is Learning. Teaching Is a Science. Lesson Plans and Unit Plans: The Basis for Instruction. Self-Censorship. Free Online Lesson Planbook Software for Teachers.

Tools for Professional Learning: Curate, Share, Connect. For six years, I taught in a basement classroom with no windows, and yet I could see what was happening around the world thanks to the Internet. Though I tried learning something new each day, until I put systems in place, I spent more time searching for materials than actually learning. Winnetka's Hubbard Woods School turns library into 'libratory' - Winnetka Talk. Last summer, staff and parent volunteers at Hubbard Woods transformed the school library's computer lab into an open space where students can make use of more than 20 pieces of educational equipment to explore computer coding, crafts, robotics, design and architecture, among other subjects.

"It really began with the idea of STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics)," said Todd Burleson, resource center director at Hubbard Woods. "It's all about bringing to life the idea of integrating STEAM into all subjects. If you think of beautiful designs, there's often a mathematical element, so students don't have to think of those subjects in isolation anymore. " Looms, pipe cleaners, a large assortment of robotics tools, construction paper sorters, dry erase boards, color-coded Lego bins, gallons of paint and upholstery for design boards are just some of the additions to what is now known as the Hubbard Woods Idea Lab. Yes, He Can! Todd Burleson, SLJ’s 2016 School Librarian of the Year. Future Ready Librarians - Future Ready Schools.

4 Apps to Foster Parent-Teacher Communication. A 4-Part System for Getting to Know Your Students. The biggest paradigm shift in my teaching career was the day I found out one of my students was homeless. Robert was talkative, academically average, fooled around a little too much. Some weeks he turned in good work, and other times he didn’t. Among the 134 students that filled my rosters in my third year of teaching, he was a pretty typical seventh grade kid. Classroom Management: 4 Keys to Starting the Year off Right. When I was a teacher, classroom management was not my strongest suit. 50 Questions To Promote Metacognition In Students. Librarian Approved: 30 Ed-Tech Apps to Inspire Creativity and Creation. Tool discovery is often a challenge for teachers interested in finding ways to use technology that will change the way they and their students work.

With so much going on in the classroom, many teachers don’t have the time to test out various apps and find the perfect tool to meet their needs. 21st-Century Libraries: The Learning Commons. Teacher Resources. The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

A Mindset for Learning by Kristine Mraz, Christine Hertz. Teaching the Traits of Joyful, Independent Growth.