Place Based Education
literacy
Personalized Learning
Kevin Johnson: Read to Succeed
“All students should read at grade level by the end of third grade.” Former NBA All Star and Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson visited the Northwest this week on behalf of our friends at the League of Education Voters promoting this simple but important idea.
Personalized Learning
John Dewey to Farmville: 3 Decades of Learning
More children are learning from Farmville and other games, which is becoming the "new normal". Bing Gordon, a leader in the gaming industry believes that games are becoming a source to connect and engage with students in a way that is constantly teaching them new lessons.
Personalized Learning
The End of the Book
The First Book describes the magic of learning to read but treats the book as relic and the process as a religious rite. Digital natives are growing up post-book and that's not all bad.
EdTech
Measuring Text Space
What impact have digital resources had on the choices librarians and districts make about reading materials available in public school libraries?
Personalized Learning
The Internet is What We Make It
David Brooks rehashs Carr's 'the Internet makes us dumb' argument but ends in the right spot--it's up to us to build powerful learning experiences that harness the web.
EdTech
Take This Job and Understand It
Guest blogger Jason T. Bedell, a librarian with a jones for technology, gets ready to leave his library media specialist role in a public school. He leaves his staff and admin with some thoughts about what it really means to mix tech with literacy efforts.