Recently, our friends at MindShift did a great piece on “open source learning” — a variation on inquiry learning or passion-based learning – it is about helping students choose their own learning path, an approach that already has some well-known champions among educators.
Read this post about an English teacher who teaches Advanced Placement English and Composition courses, uses blogging, videoconferencing, and collaborative working groups as part of his instruction. KQED.org/Mind/Shift blog (2/14)
Many book lovers could have easily contributed to this blog from Edutopia, “Ten Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students”
The post was written by a teacher who lists 10 suggestions for how, regardless of the subject, a person can engage students and nurture an appreciation and ultimately a love of reading.
Then the question remains: Teachers and administrators, what do you do towards this end? Parents, how do you encourage this with your own children?
A small group of high school media specialists and college librarians continue to work with CMLE on our attempts to Bridge Information Literacy Efforts Across Libraries. Recently, we crafted and implemented a college-student survey that basically asked college students: Based on your experience, if you could tell a high-school student three things to help them prepare for college-level research, what would it be?
We received over 400 responses from students at four local colleges and 69 respondents indicated a willingness to appear in a video. Hard choices were made to arrive at whom to film and we have begun production of a short video capturing some of the responses. We hope to make the video available widely through YouTube. The video will be used for various purposes, and we hope to use it as a conversation starter at an upcoming event that is open to all types of libraries in late spring as a springboard to new “bridging”activities next Fall. Are you curious about the work of the three media specialists and three college librarians to date? Go to http://tinyurl.com/bjsugro to read the executive summary of the group’s work. Watch for further updates on this exciting work!
If you have ever attempted to develop a website it can be difficult to know where to begin. The process is filled with a host of details to consider; such as the message being conveyed, identifying the target audience, selecting the best color scheme and appropriate layout, etc. Here is a link to the top 10 mistakes made when creating a website. Think of these as a list of “must NOT haves” and/or guidelines for a quick, informal evaluation of your new (or old) site. Click here for Nielsen Norman Group’s (NNG) top 10.
In her blogCanadian teacher, Lisa Noble, lists three very different ways Twitter made a difference in her life. 1) Among her peers she was able to stay connected with the latest labor union news. 2) In her class the students are able to view real-time images and information feeds sent from astronaut Chris Hadfield’s during his amazing space expedition. 3) After hearing about a science project, through her Professional Learning Network (PLN), Lisa tweeted about the need to find a less expensive alternative for materials her family could use to create electrically powered inventions. You may be surprised at how “tweets” rewarded her. Click here to read more.
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