Technology

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.

Michelle Carton builds a global education at the Tudor Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska.

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.

Here, experts pick their favorites for the preschool set (children aged three to five) and highlight key concepts explored in these notable apps.