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SAS Curriculum Pathways Now Available to All netTrekker Subscribers

News/Breaking News - Posted 03 Dec 2013

Follett Partners With EBSCO Information Services

News/Breaking News - Posted 26 Nov 2013

Cool Links: Edtech Digest on Epson's Free iProjection App

News/Cool Links - Posted 25 Nov 2013

OverDrive Debuts Streaming Video Service to Libraries, Schools

News/Breaking News - Posted 20 Nov 2013

Discovery Education Announces Expanded Content Partnerships

News/Breaking News - Posted 15 Nov 2013

Scholastic Premieres “Math@Work: Math Meets Fashion” Web Series

News/Breaking News - Posted 14 Nov 2013

Ebook History Collection Now Available from EBSCO Information Services

News/Breaking News - Posted 14 Nov 2013

SIIA Announces Innovation Incubator Program Finalists

News/Breaking News - Posted 13 Nov 2013

OverDrive's Checkout Terminal, OverDrive Media Station, Now Broadly Available

News/Breaking News - Posted 12 Nov 2013

Scientific Learning Announces Reading Assistant Auto Initial Assignment

News/Breaking News - Posted 08 Nov 2013

OverDrive Updates School Digital Libraries Solution

News/Breaking News - Posted 07 Nov 2013

Curriculum Associates Releases First App in New Series of Educational Games for the iPad

News/Breaking News - Posted 06 Nov 2013
 

Features

  

TOOLS FOR LEARNING: Meaningful Connections--What's New in the Social Media Sphere?

Victor offers up some excellent views on the current state and trajectory of social media in K-12 education. And he then connects you with a half dozen currently hot spaces, places, and tools you can use to leverage the concept.
Editorial/Features
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

Creating a Safe Social Learning Environment to Improve Student Success

This issue focuses on social media in K-12, and this previously published article from the folks at Schoolwires so closely fit what we editors were looking for that we sought, and received, permission to republish it and expand its distribution.
Editorial/Features
Posted 01 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

TOOLS FOR LEARNING: It's a Mobile World: But Is It a Mobile World at School?

Yes, it's a mobile world. And educators see great potential with mobile technologies in transforming education. But few schools allow students to use family-owned mobile devices in the classroom.
Editorial/Features
Posted 03 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue By

Interview | Tim Springer: A New Mobile Approach to the Learning Space

Tim Springer (HERO, Inc.), Don Orth (director of technology at Hillbrook School), and Chris Petrick (Bretford Manufacturing) discuss what it takes to create a mobile world for an academic setting, the issues and challenges, advice on managing the process, and the purposes behind it all.
Editorial/Features
Posted 01 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue By
 

Columns

  

THE PIPELINE: Preparing Kids for the Work Environment—Without Being Too Brazen

According to Stephen, we know that the world of work we're preparing our learners for is emerging as a quite different paradigm than the one we prepared for. What can we do now to prepare our lessons and school environments to build on a vision of a positive future?
Column/The Pipeline
Posted 06 Nov 2013
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THE NEW MEDIA CENTER: Questions, Musings, and Other Things On My Mind

Mary Alice considers the state of media centers and the mindset of media specialists as the calendar year closes … where they've been, where they are, and, hopefully, where they are headed.
Column/The New Media Center
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

BELLTONES: Computers as Mindtools--Homage to David Jonassen

David Jonassen's book Computers in the Classroom: Mindtools for Critical Thinking espoused a philosophy of educational;technology that has had a major effect on Mary Ann's thinking and also on the direction of the M.L.S. program at her university.
Column/Belltones
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

IDEA WATCH: Embracing Mobile Learning--Think "Flexibility" and "Adaptability"

As more mobile devices enter our schools, libraries have to be responsive, in the tools we use and also in the design and functionality of our physical spaces. We need to examine how our policies support what students need, rather than act as obstacles.
Column/Idea Watch
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

EDITOR'S NOTES: Social Media Roadmaps: Finding Your Way

Column/Editor’s Notes
Posted 06 Nov 2013
- Nov/Dec 2013 Issue By

THE PIPELINE: Low-Hanging Fruit--Key Components of Learning-Focused Web Presences

For Stephen, the "basic" web presence today for schools is ideally managed by school library staff but also led by a team that involves and seeks input from IT, curriculum leaders, teachers, and students. Check out his list showing the foundation of a good web presence for school libraries.
Column/The Pipeline
Posted 01 Sep 2013
- Sep/Oct 2013 Issue By
 

CyberBee’s Web Pick
For December 1, 2013: Be an energy star by discovering how to become more energy efficient throught the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Star Kids website.
 

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POPULAR ARTICLES

SETDA Releases Tools for Next Generation Standards Alignment of Digital Education Resources

The resources released by SETDA, the State Educational Technology Directors Association, provide recommendations for how the Common Core State Standards could be digitally encoded to support the transparent high-quality alignment of education resources to those standards, including an approach to encoding state-adopted extensions of the CCSS.
Posted 16 Oct 2013

Follett Offers New Release of Destiny Library Management System

A streamlined ebook experience highlights the Destiny 11.5 Release, along with enhanced digital and mobile features for teachers and students.
Posted 16 Oct 2013

Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education Accepting Applications for Siemens Teachers as Researchers (STARs) and Siemens STEM Institute Programs

These programs are part of the Siemens STEM Academy, a national professional development community designed to advance the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the United States.
Posted 17 Oct 2013

TOOLS FOR LEARNING: Meaningful Connections--What's New in the Social Media Sphere?

Victor offers up some excellent views on the current state and trajectory of social media in K-12 education. And he then connects you with a half dozen currently hot spaces, places, and tools you can use to leverage the concept.
Posted 06 Nov 2013

Nepris Service Connects STEM Professionals, Students, and Curriculum

Nepris fires up students by showing them STEM professionals in action through highly interactive web-enabled video chat sessions.
Posted 05 Nov 2013
 
 
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