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Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie
Welcome to the AFDB Website This site is dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum* Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human. Here you will find a description of AFDBs, how to make and use them, and general information about related subjects. I hope that you find the AFDB Homepage to be an important source of AFDB know-how and advocacy. What Is An AFDB? An Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (AFDB) is a type of headwear that can shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers. What are you waiting for? REBUTTAL TO THE MIT ANTI-AFDB STUDY: Rahimi et al.' BEWARE OF COMMERCIAL AFDBS: Since you should trust no one, always construct your AFDB yourself to avoid the risk of subversion and mental enslavement. AMIGA AND LINUX USERS: It is advised that you get a copy of MindGuard for your personal anti-psychotronic needs.
Reshelving Project: Almost There and Already Awesome! | The Uncommon Blog
Team Ditch Dewey! Hooray! I’m catching my breathe and finally getting the chance to write the follow up to my previous post entitled Welcome Back and What is Going on in the Library?! If I knew how much work all this would be, I’m not sure I would have ever taken it on. Nevertheless every student walked out with at least one nonfiction and one fiction book without a hitch, and most importantly, they’re excited about reading the books they chose! Now for the how. “Will this shelving decision help our students easily find the books they’re looking for? As described in the previous post, to start this project we massively weeded our collection. Next, we decided on a shelving scenario that would make the most sense for our students and our current and planned collection. We decided on these nonfiction shelving topics and subtopics after much trial and error. We kept our primary category signs clean and simple for now, by mounting card stock on pre-cut 11″ by 14″ foam core bought at Staples.
Drop Bear - Australian Museum
The Drop Bear, Thylarctos plummetus, is a large, arboreal, predatory marsupial related to the Koala. Drop Bear distribution map Photographer: © Australian Museum Standard Common Name Drop Bear Identification Around the size of a leopard or very large dog with coarse orange fur with some darker mottled patterning (as seen in most Koalas). Size range 120kg, 130cm long, 90 cm at the shoulder. Distribution Drop Bears can be found in the densely forested regions of the Great Dividing Range in South-eastern Australia. Habitat Closed canopy forest as well as open woodland on the margins of dense forest. Habitat type Vegetation Habitat: closed forest, tall closed forest, tall open forest, tall open shrubland What does this mean? Seasonality Appears yearly, 1st April. Feeding and Diet Examination of kill sites and scats suggest mainly medium to large species of mammal make a substantial proportion of the animal's diet. Feeding Habit carnivorous Mating and reproduction Era / Period Quaternary Period Classification
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Internet Search to address Common Core
The Common Core ELA Writing Standard 8 requires students to navigate the Internet for research and evaluate the validity of the sites to support their claims. The introduction to this starts in Kindergarten and progresses each year. Furthermore, Common Core Writing Standard 7 has students conduct research projects, utilizing multiple sources. Therefore, students must be taught how to dig into the Internet to search, assess the validity of the site(s), and support their claims. Basics to Googling Students can also use the Advanced Search to narrow down the results by clicking on the gear icon (currently located in the top right corner of the search results page). Once students are able to narrow their search, they must evaluate the validity, credibility, and reliability of the site. There are tips, lessons, and links embedded in the above picture. Once students discern valid information on the Internet, they use it to defend their arguments / thoughts in their writing.
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Kids Believe Literally Anything They Read Online, Even Tree Octopuses
Anyone can publish anything on the Internet. Despite that, children aren't taught how to evaluate the reliability of information they read there. As demonstrated by a recent study, this is true to a shocking extent, and there may be dire implications for the future of today's young people. For their study, Donald Leu, professor of education at the University of Connecticut, and his colleagues selected 53 of the best readers from seventh grade classes in low-income school districts in South Carolina and Connecticut. The page in question was devoted to an animal called the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. But the joke was not at all obvious to members of the supposedly Internet-savvy generation: 87.5 percent of the seventh-grade subjects judged the Web page to be "reliable." In other words, of the kids who were reading about tree octopuses for the first time, all of them fell for it. "The other big implication is for politics," Leu said. Got a question?
Wicked or Wonderful? Revisiting the World of Wikipedia
Regardless of your personal feelings about Wikipedia, it's being used by students every day. In a recent Pew Internet survey (Purcell, 2012), teachers indicated that Wikipedia was the second most frequently used online tool behind Google. Even though some teachers continue to ban its use for particular assignments, Wikipedia use overall has increased steadily (Zickuhr & Rainie, 2011). Wicked or Wonderful? In the early days, scholars charged that Wikipedia was full of inaccuracies, bias beyond belief, and even harmful to young minds. Policies. Vandalism. Authorship. Sources. Reliability. Academic Research. The key is using Wikipedia effectively is understanding how the resource is constructed and how to use it effectively. What You Should Know School librarians often find themselves in the middle of the Wikipedia debate dealing with misconceptions and misuse of this information resource. Let's explore a dozen things you should know about Wikipedia to prepare for this debate. Five Pillars.
