You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary, the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations. That was certainly the case in our experience. However, at each level—middle […]
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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking
By Joyce Valenza on December 20, 2017
Filed Under: Apps, Book Reviews, Censorship, Classroom & Curricula, Common Core, Diversity, Ebooks, Interviews, Literacy, Music, Public Libraries, Reference Reviews, Research, Reviews, SLJ Blog Network, Students, Technology Tagged With: #AASL17, #GoOpen, #notatISTE, #WeNeedDiverseBooks, 1:1, 3D, activism, Adobe, Advocacy, African-American History, Amazon Inspire, American Association of School Librarians (AASL), American Library Association (ALA), American Sign Language, angela maiers, animation, app smashing, Archive, art, ASCD, ASL, assessment, audio, audiobooks, augmented reality, Author visits, authors, Awards & Contests, Back to school, badges, banned books, birds, Black History, blended learning, blogging, body image, book club, booklists, Booktalks, BYOD, Carolyn Foote, CCSS, cell phones, chemistry, children's books, Civil Rights, CMS, coding, collaboration, coloring, Common Craft, Common Sense Media, computer science, conferences, Connected Learning, contests, Copyright, Creative Commons, creativity, critical thinking, crowdsourcing, Curation, current events, curriculum, data, databases, Declaration For the Right to Libraries, department of education, design, design thinking, Destiny, digital books, digital citizenship, digital libraries, Digital Literacy, Digital Publishing, digital shift, dinosaurs, Documentaries, DOE, Dot Day, DPLA, drawing, EasyBib, economics, Edcamp, Edublog Awards, education, election, Empathy, Engineering, ERIC, ESL, ESSA, evaluation, EveryLibrary, Eyes Wide Open, fair use, fake news, films, filters, Flipboard, FlipGrid, Follett, Follett Challenge, Funding, furniture, Future Ready, Future Ready Librarians, game, Gaming, gender, geography, girls, global, Global Education, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Expeditions, Google Hangouts, Google+, grants, Harry Potter Alliance, History, holidays, Holocaust, Horizon Report, IASL, images, infographics, information literacy, innovation, inquiry, inspiration, Instagram, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, Internet Archive, iOS, iPads, ISTE, James Patterson, Jennifer Lagarde, journalism, language learning, leadership, learning, learning commons, lego, Lesson Plans, letters, libguides, Librarians and Media Specialists, libraries, library design, Library of Congress, Library school, LMS, magazines, makerspaces, making, marketing, Math, media, media literacy, Michelle Luhtala, microsoft, middle school, Mobile, MOOCs, Movies, Museums, Nashville, National Geographic, New York Times, New Zealand, news literacy, Nonfiction, nypl, OER, online learning, Open Ebooks, orientation, parents, Paul Fleischman, Peter Reynolds, Pew, photographs, Picture Books, Pinterest, plagiarism, PLN, podcasts, Poetry, Poetry Slam, politics, Presidents, primary sources, privacy, problem-solving, Professional development, PSLA, public domain, Publishing, QR Codes, readers advisory, reading, reading challenges, remix, research skills, retirement, scholarship, School Librarian of the Year Award, School Librarians, School Libraries, School Library Month, science, Shakespeare, Shannon Miller, skype, SLJ Summit, SLJsummit, Smithsonian, social media, space, special needs, speeches, STEAM, STEM, storycorps, Storytelling, Street Lit, summer reading, Super Bowl, survey, SYNC, teacher librarians, Teachers, teaching, TeachingBooks.net, TED, Teens, testing, textbooks, The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), Tiffany Whitehead, TLChat, Tools, Topsy, travel, trends, Tumblr, twitter, Unconference, video, virtual reality, Visual Literacy, Volunteers, Washington, webinar, White House, wikipedia, wikis, Wolfram|Alpha, women, WRAD, writing, ya, Young Adult Literature, YouTube
Topsy: a game changer for search, e-reputation, & data analysis
By Joyce Valenza on September 14, 2013
I love searching Twitter. And I love sharing how a Twitter search can dramatically impact student research, by connecting them with experts, encouraging them to develop current awareness, allowing them to listen in on the dialog of a particular field or niche, and, in some cases, enabling them to contribute to the conversation. Learning to […]
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