The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 1, 2023

My experience with the school library and book choice tension I have over 1,000 books in my American international Christian school classroom in southern Taiwan where I teach English Language Arts (8th), Yearbook (10th-12th), US History (11th), and British Literature (12th). Teachers want to advocate for the learning needs of their students.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

When it comes time for a bit of library refreshing, in the form of posters and bulletin boards, there are so many wonderful shared options. Also on Pinterest, Renée Stewart has collected more than 200 vintage library posters. Of course, September is Library Card Sign-Up Month and spokesdog Snoopy is this year’s honorary chair.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think back to the days when we had to do all of our research in the library with index cards and the good old’ Dewey Decimal System. Secondary students can use Google Scholar to find credible resources for their research projects. Google Books is a great companion tool for secondary student research.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 14, 2016

But first, a little library history. I continued this practice in school libraries, sending TOCs from incoming journals and magazines to our science, art, social studies teachers, reading specialists and administrators. Here’s a little current awareness tip. Microsoft Academic offers more that 150 million entities.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Like the university professor on the study’s advisory panel, in the higher education sample, students highly valued Wikipedia, considering it a reliable old friend for its ability to get them up to speed on an unfamiliar topic and for its references to both primary and secondary sources. Connaway, L. Lanclos, D., & Hood, E.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. His recent appearance on PBS’ Growing A Greener World (Episode 808) won an Emmy Award, and he and his students were recently featured on the covers of TIME for KIDS and Scholastic Magazine.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 28, 2016

The contest invited teams of secondary school students to research historical architecture, then reproduce key buildings by printing them. Bridges, churches, libraries, banks, colleges, and stores all appeared in 3d printing form in that gym, flanked by historical letters, old magazines, books, iPads, laptops, and busily working printers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Currently Chris is a regular columnist for Encounter magazine. While volunteering at an afterschool code club at the library, he got excited about the power of self-learning. He later went into Montessori secondary school program design at The Judson Montessori School (San Antonio), The Emerson School, and Hacienda School.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2019

This is most commonly done in grades 1-5 but kindergarten can also follow the model and it works well at the secondary level. You can pull books from your classroom library or your school library. Jen’s going to do a deep dive into an ELA or reading workshop model.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When it comes to printed materials, like books and magazines, you may want to dive into DonorsChoose, which connects classroom projects with donors. In their Copyright section, you can gain access to visuals and lesson plans for secondary students. You can read more about Common Sense Media below. Copyright Office website.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. Might we also study whether learners with solid K12 library inquiry experience perform better than the student in the general SHEG sample ? You can now find out. Beyond the Bubble History Assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” The Scholarly Kitchen weighs in on layoffs at DPLA , the Digital Public Library of America. ” Edsurge reprints a letter students at the Secondary School of Journalism sent to Mark Zuckerberg : “‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

. - Mark Nichols, Digital Promise Fellow Citizen Journalism - Lesley Farmer, Professor of Library Media CLASS: Connected Learning Activities through Social Service - Sebastian Panakal, Chairperson Classrooms without Borders: A Teacher's Guide to International Collaborative Projects - Philip J. That's all for now.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Think the private school startup Bridge International Academies that operates in Africa, for example, which Peg Tyre documented so devastatingly in The New York Times Magazine this summer.).

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 23, 2017 3 Ways G Suite Updates Use Machine Intelligence to Make Classrooms More Efficient | EdTech Magazine → Yet, this does not seem an unabashed good: "By harnessing the smarts of the computer, new Google tools save time and reduce struggles with tech." Unforrunately, this is news.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 23, 2017 3 Ways G Suite Updates Use Machine Intelligence to Make Classrooms More Efficient | EdTech Magazine → Yet, this does not seem an unabashed good: "By harnessing the smarts of the computer, new Google tools save time and reduce struggles with tech." Unforrunately, this is news.

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