Rebecca Burgess’ Comic Redesigns the Autism Spectrum. Rebecca Burgess sees a problem with the way many people perceive the autism spectrum.
Her resolution? The comic below. The King of Denmark and the Naked Mole Rat: Teaching Critical Thinking for Social Justice. The King of Denmark and a Class Divided There is a well-loved, but apocryphal story about the King of Denmark.
It goes like this: When the Nazis invaded Denmark during the Second World War, they ordered the Danish Jews to don arm bands displaying the yellow star of David. eGranary Digital Library. Key Takeaways Many students in the developing world have little to no access to the Internet and its wealth of educational resources.
The eGranary Digital Library provides more than 30 million educational resources via a local area network, without accessing the Internet. For countries with low literacy rates, high costs for Internet access, and other hurdles hampering students and educators, this "Internet in a Box" helps fill the gap between Internet use in developing and developed countries. Although the Internet has become an essential tool in education, the World Wide Web is not a global phenomenon — many students in the developing world have little to no access to it. Why Libraries Matter. 7 Steps to Create Engaging Infographics for Your Class. August 15, 2014 The use of visual aids in teaching is a practice well established in the education literature and teaching pedagogy.
Visuals tend to enhance the content's comprehensibility and simplify complex processes. However, with the emergence of web2.0 technologies and the rapid uptake of digital media this visual feature of communication has been exponentially developed especially with the appearance of infographics. Infographics are visual representations of data. They are a blend of different materials such as text, graphs, pictures, symbols, flowchats, diagrams...etc. Curation Situations: Let us count the ways. Curation is a funny word.
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.
Thinking Outside the Bin: Why labeling books by reading level disempowers young readers. Illustration by James Steinberg A child enters the library, looking for something to read.
She wanders the aisles, glancing at book spines, running her finger along the shelf, and lingering at a display of new titles. “Can I help you?” Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming. It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased.
A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I’m going to tell you that libraries are important. I’m going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. Leading Learning.