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Visual literacy demands increasingly sophisticated tools to expand kids' critical skills.
Educating kids on how lighting, camera movement, sound, body language, and other film strategies convey meaning.
At Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, NJ, the Popkin Innovation Lab has brought a new curriculum and problem-solving approach, along with a different culture, to school this year.
For an upcoming feature article, School Library Journal wants to profile school librarians who are leading the way in technology use at their school or district.
These titles jump-start important conversations about online conduct, safety, and ethics.
Focus on the individuals rather than the devices, and more strategies to address the causes of bad behavior online.
This Potter-themed kit combines the beloved fictional world with coding in a magical way for students, who can use the wand as more than just a glorified remote.
Students can study the science of baseball—and the sport can help teach the kids key STEM concepts—thanks to this new multi-year content collaboration.
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This Brothers Grimm folktale is elaborately illustrated in a traditional, yet interactive manner.
An interative, dystopian-themed program lets middle schoolers have fun while developing their knowledge of rhetoric, style, language, and more.
The creator of a mobile library serving children in Afghanistan, a middle school teacher-designer of a social justice course in West Philadelphia, and #1000BlackGirlBooks founder Marley Dias were named to the International Literacy Association’s “30 Under 30” list.
Fans of Eric Carle will rejoice in this well-presented, comprehensive app.
Lunar themes, storytelling, STEAM initiatives, and more ideas for summer activities at the library.
The government's education report focuses on partnerships and literacy, but no cost was included.
SLJ's 2018 School Librarian of the Year is one of the 250 school and public librarians who received $500 in microfunding.
Here’s how to get young people to explore creative writing and the arts with a zine-making workshop at your library.
Wondering what happened in Texas, where they wanted to bump Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the curriculum? Still waiting for the AR Harry Potter game we wrote about months ago? We've got you covered with news about past articles.
Train-loving children get a coding primer as they play.
A trio of challenging games that reward curiousity, strategic thinking, and in some cases, speed.
MERGE is on a mission to make virtual reality "easy, safe, and fun for everyone” and offers an array of experiences to kids 10 and up.
Famed actor and activist George Takei will kick off School Library Journal’s annual Summit. This year’s theme: Making “good trouble.”
Liz Kolb, presenter at the upcoming SLJ/ISTE webcast Digital Citizenship for Tweens and Teens, created a curriculum for Michigan middle schoolers to adopt safe, responsible, and respectful online behavior.
The new ISTE Standards for Educational Leaders broaden the scope of digital citizenship education for students. Here are up-to-date resources to help librarians promote these skills.
Educators can play a key role in helping these students move forward with resilience.
Mixerpiece | Touch and Go
At its core, Mixerpiece is for lovers of art and visual expression who delight in creative play and the endless possibilities of collage.
Using social media platforms in classroom settings to engage students while enhancing digital writing and communication skills.
Nosy Crow's last app in its "Flip-Flap" series spotlights those perennial favorite creatures: dinosaurs.
Nearly 300 motion picture treasures representing a century of cinema history are now available through the Library of Congress’s new National Screening Room.
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Neuroscience provides excellent reasons for supporting making and makerspaces, and can help guide educators offering these exciting opportunities for our students.
Here are some ideas to bring your Teen Read Week programs up a notch.
Meet OASIS—Openly Available Sources Integrated Search—with a goal to facilitate the discovery of open educational resources.
These new applications transport students through primary sources to some of the most dramatic turning points in U.S. history and immerse them in the related debates.
For these authors, visits to school libraries are all about the interaction with students.
The search tool allows you to locate datasets stored across thousands of repositories in the context of their hosted sites in a single interface.
How can educators incorporate materials that explore empathy and encourage social and emotional development? An educator has some suggestions.
SLJ test drives Tour Creator, a free tool that enables anyone with access to a 360-degree camera or Google Street View to create professional-level VR experiences.
Crafty ideas for using the Instax Mini instant camera in projects related to Teen Read Week, Banned Books Week, and more.
Common Sense Media finds that when it comes to social media and teens, there are no easy or definitive answers.
A screen-free coding robot that had to be tried to be believed.
A stunning addition to a series of truly immersive games, for players who aren’t afraid of the dark.
AASL has launched two eagerly anticipated crosswalk documents on the new page of AASL's National School Library Standards Web Portal.
Teen-tested projects from the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County.
An elementary school librarian’s suggestions for projects related to animal habitats, natural disasters, bridge building, recycled fashion, and more.
Makey Makey, Hummingbird Duo, and Scratch can turn an ordinary poster or diorama into a talking, moving educational presentation.
SLJ reviews 3Doodler's new line of 3-D printing pen products designed for classroom use.
Try these projects and games with your students on Banned Websites Awareness Day (September 26), which seeks to raise awareness of overly restrictive filtering of educational websites and to explore the impact on intellectual freedom.
Podcasts, books, and more news in Jonker's Morning Notes.
Michelle Carton builds a global education at the Tudor Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska.
Learning playlists are a thing, and they can be powerful and address multiple purposes.
Overhauling library systems, forging alliances, finding communities, weathering suspicion, and weeding—sometimes thousands of titles. It’s all in the first year’s work for many librarians starting at a new school.
Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. Recent enhancements allow for even more openness.
Parents and young children will discover engaging curricular content, a library of interactive books to teach early academic skills, as well as a focus on social-emotional development and healthy habits.
Great Preschool Apps | Mix It Up
Here, experts pick their favorites for the preschool set (children aged three to five) and highlight key concepts explored in these notable apps.
I was excited to attend the release party for the beta version of ALA’s Ready to Code Collection at Annual a few weeks back.
Joyce Valenza covers the top picks among the annual list.
Joyce Valenza covers Story Maps, which feature a bounty of primary sources, including period newspapers, images, photographs, quotes as well as innovative, narrative approaches to mapping data.
