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This should be a great discussion!!! Participate live – Thursday night.
Join us tomorrow on the Future of Education at 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) when Joyce Valenza leads a discussion on the future of librarians and their role in education. Special guests: Buffy Hamilton, Cathy Nelson, and Carolyn [...]
I love it when I find a great new resource, only to realize that I bookmarked it in delicious account months ago! So much for my memory. In any case, here’s one of those resources that I re-learned about today. Teacher Training Videos “were created for teachers to help them to incorporate technology [...]
Scratch, from the MIT Media Lab, is a programming tool “designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.”
This demo video is all kinds of wonderful. [...]
Quote from the 2009 Horizon Report on Will Richardson’s weblogg-ed.
Information technologies are having a significant impact on how people work, play, gain information, and collaborate. Increasingly, those who use technology in ways that expand their global connections are more likely to advance, while those who do not will find themselves on the sidelines. With [...]
New York State’s School Library Systems are taking quite a financial hit in the current economic crisis. There will be cuts to many of the important support and training services they provide to school library media centers throughout the state.
I received this from Linda Fox of the Capital Region BOCES SLS today:
The Capital Region BOCES [...]
Judi Repman of Georgia Southern University wrote a great post a few days ago on the Georgia Library Media Association blog on starting conversations with educators about “21st century skills”. She’s gathered a wonderful list of videos to get those conversations started. One of these (shown below) builds on the Kansas State video A Vision [...]
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