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Spring ISD Library Resources. Spring ISD Librarian Wiki. Best Websites for Teaching & Learning. The Landmark Websites are honored due to their exemplary histories of authoritative, dynamic content and curricular relevance. They are free, web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover and provide a foundation to support 21st-century teaching and learning. Guidelines for School Library Programs: Instructional Partner "The SLMS collaborates with classroom teachers to develop assignments that are matched to academic standards and include critical thinking skills, technology and information literacy skills, and core social skills and cultural competencies.

The SLMS guides instructional design by working with the classroom teacher to establish learning objectives and goals, and by implementing assessment strategies before, during, and after assigned units of study. " Content Resources, Lesson Plans, and More Empower learners of all types and ages. That is ALTEC's idea. Tip: Take a look at all the ALTEC Star Tools. Discovery Education. Center for Media Literacy. Web 2.0 Tools for 21st Century Skills - ALHS Library. Digital Shift. Curation. School Library Monthly/Volume XXIX, Number 1/September-October 2012 Curation by Joyce Kasman Valenza Joyce Kasman Valenza, Ph.D., is a teacher librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, PA.

Email: joycevalenza@gmail.com The Internet firehose analogy rings even truer today, twenty years after Internet access saw its beginning. Each of us is now not only a consumer but also a potential media producer, and it is easy to be drenched. Human Filters Help Digital curators can prevent oversaturation by filtering and diverting the onslaught and by directing what is worth sharing into more gentle and continuous streams. Blogger, author, and NYU professor Clay Shirky, in Steve Rosebaum’s Mashable post, "Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay" on May 10, 2010, describes the problem with traditional search and identifies the issue of filter failure: Curation comes up when search stops working.

Human filters make a difference. Why Must School Librarians Curate? Why and What Are We Curating? Joyce-valenza.wikispaces. "A content curator" is "someone who continually finds, groups, organizes and shares the best and most relevant content on a specific issue online" (Bhargava, 2009, para. 4). With this in mind, content curation is digital archiving. This model is classified into five subgroups:Aggregation. The act of curating the most relevant information about a particular topic into a single location;Distillation. The act of curating information into a more simplistic format where only the most important or relevant ideas are shared;Elevation.

Key Implications of Curation Tools for 21st Century School Libraries Curation tools are important in school libraries because they lessen the possibility of information overload while providing concrete examples of synthesized information. Key Implications for Implementing Guided Inquiry With Curation Tools. Thedaringlibrarian - home. Digitalgoonies.com. Cool Websites - 21st Century School Teacher.