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Libraries Play A Central Role in Connected Learning | The Digital Shift 2013
The Internet offers today’s youth unprecedented opportunities to connect with peers and seek knowledge in almost any area of interest—and libraries are uniquely positioned to play a central role in...
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Schools Plan Group Readings of Gettysburg Address on Skype and Google
Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, students around the nation are connecting this month for simultaneous readings of President Abraham Lincoln’s iconic 272-word speech....
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Device & Conquer: SLJ’s 2013 Tech Survey
As education technology has evolved, so, too, have the kinds of digital tools that school librarians use with their students, as shown in School Library Journal’s 2013 School Technology Survey....
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‘The Lost Hero’ Project: TAB Group Brings Riordan’s Book to Life
Terri Clark, teen patron services specialist at the Smoky Hill Library, part of the Arapahoe Library District (ALD) in Colorado, and her Teen Advisory Board (TAB) have created their fourth annual book...
View ArticleCIPA at 10: Internet Filtering Excessive, Study Finds | ALA Midwinter Meeting
A decade after the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) went into effect, its implementation in schools and public libraries is problematic and the scale of Internet filtering is excessive,...
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Teen Tech Week 2014: Computer Tear Downs, Skyping, and Raspberry Pis
Tech activities at the Stewart Middle Magnet School in Tampa, FL. Maker spaces, robot construction, and computer tear-downs will figure prominently in librarians’ Teen Tech Week lineups this year,...
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What’s Not to ‘Like’? Rethinking Restrictive Social Media Policies
“Swimming pools can be dangerous for children. To protect them, one can install locks, put up fences, and deploy pool alarms. All these measures are helpful, but by far the most important thing that...
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Social Media Resources 101 for the School Librarian
Image by Vladgrin/Thinkstock. Earlier this month, I wrote an article about what school librarians can learn about social media strategies from the success of this year’s World Book Night. Following up...
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#DadsRead Campaign Celebrates Fathers Reading to Kids
Here’s a fun Father’s Day project: The Good Men Project has teamed up with Zoobean, the children’s app and book curation service, and other sponsors for a #DadsRead campaign, which is a grassroots...
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Transmedia and Education: How Transmedia Is Changing the Way We Learn
For one language arts class project, a middle school teacher in Shelburne, Virginia, Chad Sansing, asks his sixth graders to read Peter Cherches’s 1986 poem “Lift Your Right Arm,” and then translate it...
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What’s Your Online Persona?
For librarians, the Internet used to be the Wild West. Now that it’s ubiquitous, we’ve ceased to be explorers and are now homesteaders, and there are lots of personalities involved. Who you are and...
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Fight the ‘Zombie Librarians’| ISTE 2014
LaGarde’s opening slide. Despite innovative technology integration, impressive tech tools, and more augmented reality demonstrations than you can shake a stick at, there was one thing decidedly lacking...
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What You Should Know About Banned Websites Awareness Day, September 24
As part of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Banned Books Week campaign to raise awareness about the impact of censorship on intellectual freedom, the American Association of School Librarians...
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Anil Dash Keynote Rallies Librarians to Demand a Web for the People | TDS14
A stream of #TDS14 tweets from revved-up librarians accompanied the closing keynote speech by Anil Dash, a blogger, entrepreneur, and cofounder and CEO of ThinkUp, during The Digital Shift: Libraries @...
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I Tried, I ‘Liked,’ I Shared: How Travis Jonker handles social media
Above ilustration by Tom Richmond Travis Jonker’s Five to Follow on Twitter If there’s one thing you can say about all school librarians: we’re cat people. The other is: we like trying things. And...
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Travis Jonker’s Five to Follow on Twitter
I Tried, I ‘Liked,’ I Shared: How Travis Jonker handles social media @colbysharp Third grade teacher Colby Sharp not only wins the award for Best Name Ever—his Twitter feed is must-read material....
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Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia on Connected Learning, Civic Engagement | TDS14
In a tag-team presentation about connected learning during LJ and SLJ’s virtual event, The Digital Shift: Libraries @ the Center, held October 1, academics Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia described...
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A Focus on Diversity and Savvy Blogging Drive KidLitCon 2014
Author Mitali Perkins speaks at KidLitCon 2014. Diversity was front and center at the 2014 Kidlitosphere Conference (KidLitCon) held in Sacramento, CA, on October 10–11. For the first time, the...
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Project ReimaginED: Online Coffee Klatch for Educators
Project ReimaginED is an online forum serving up tools, lessons, and other resources for K−12 teachers and technology coaches to strengthen the Common Core and International Society for Technology in...
View ArticleTennessee School District’s Tech Policy Blocks Students’ Constitutional...
A wide-ranging technology acceptable use policy for students in a Tennessee school district has led to accusations by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a nonprofit digital rights group, and the...
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