Tech the Plunge What was Your First Tweet March 22, 2014 Yesterday I celebrated Twitter’s eighth birthday. Since a day seems to short to celebrate birthdays anymore, here’s one more Twitter present. Read the full article → Happy Birthday Twitter! March 21, 2014 Today is Twitter’s eighth birthday and Mashable posted a nice video outlining the history of Twitter. Read the full article → Apples4theteacher.com - A Primary Website - Educational Games and Activities for Kids The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources Online companion to the book. Frequently updated: last update 8-24-2009copyright Nick Tomaiuolo 2009 Indicates a site that is not discussed in the book. News! Featured: Google Books Magazine Search. Listen to Nick's podcast on searching Google Scholar These web pages are companions to the book The Web Library.
UDL Guidelines 2.0 The goal of education in the 21st century is not simply the mastery of content knowledge or use of new technologies. It is the mastery of the learning process. Education should help turn novice learners into expert learners—individuals who want to learn, who know how to learn strategically, and who, in their own highly individual and flexible ways, are well prepared for a lifetime of learning. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) helps educators meet this goal by providing a framework for understanding how to create curricula that meets the needs of all learners from the start. The UDL Guidelines, an articulation of the UDL framework, can assist anyone who plans lessons/units of study or develops curricula (goals, methods, materials, and assessments) to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners from the start. Learn more about the UDL Guidelines: Three primary principles guide UDL—and provide structure for the Guidelines:
Wordplay - Spanish Vocabulary Game Free Technology for Teachers iPad Curriculum Blog: Truant kids in the library When I was in Florida, the question arose whether public libraries have a responsibility to report kids in the library in the daytime who they suspect are truant. I went back to my great source, Sheila Bryant. In addition to being a librarian and former corrections officer, she was also a truancy officer in Florida. Essentially, public librarians are not in loco parentis and have no duty to report suspected truancy. Here's what Sheila wrote back: By Sheila Bryant Truancy occurs when a student, between the ages of six and 17, miss a certain number of days from school within a specific time period, as defined by the statute of the state that the student resides in. Truancy is an issue that affects many people, because truancy has been associated with various criminal behaviors, such as, vandalism, burglary, and drug use. Also, truancy can be the symptoms for other emotional/mental, economic, and family situations. Just as each truant is different each success or defeat is different.
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