Useful Links (Weekly)

  by  mikefisher821 

• Ebook Search Engine, Free Ebooks, Ebook Price Comparison | Inkmesh Ebook search engine to find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader etc.    

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   A great mindmap that focuses on the age of distraction and shows how to deal with technology overload    

• 9 New Skills You Need To be a 21st Century Educator | Online Universities Some of these skills, are not new but have become more refined or essential as the times have changed. Education professionals still tout them as desirable and/or necessary as components in contemporary classrooms.    

• Teaching Media Literacy through Critical Thinking with “The Help” « Pop Goes the Classroom Two key concepts in media literacy are: that all media construct versions of reality and that media is interpreted through individual lenses. These concepts are at the core of the recent controversy over the new movie “The Help”. To be accurate, the controversy began with the release of the book but has been brought to the forefront with the release of the book. Critics claim the story is so “ahistoric” that is “inaccurate”. Use this to create discussion about the topic; The Civil Rights Movement.   

• Blooming Orange: Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster From Tips, Tools and Technology for Educators blog. A nice Blooms poster in a different format – “Bloom’s Taxonomy Helpful Verbs Poster. “This poster to helps get you thinking about how you can apply Bloom’s higher-order thinking skills in your classroom. This poster shows the segments of an orange with each segment relating to a thinking skill and some helpful verbs to serve as prompts.”           

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   Adapted from Kathy Schrock’s Blooming iPad @Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano    

• Four Ways QR Codes Could Revolutionize Education – Education – GOOD This article, from GOOD, talks about the potential of using Quick Response (QR) codes in the education. It discusses how they would be a great way for teachers to interact with students and with parents. They could also be used to help students get involved with their school.    

• Kidlit Book Trailers – Kids Books… in Action! This is a blog devoted to watching and discussing book trailers in every kidlit genre: picture books, non fiction, middle grades and young adult    

• Book Trailers – Movies for Literacy! This page represents the beginning of a website of short movies (generally 30 to 45 seconds) designed to increase student motivation to READ! Click for Late Elementary BookTrailers and Adolescent BookTrailers to see those listings. 

• Bookscreening – Book Trailers The site has has la lot of trailers, for all ages and interest levels, including children and young adult. They are available for viewing and embedding/sharing.

• Stella vs Miles: Women Writers and Literary Value in Australia · Meanjin Julieanne Lamond looks at Australian literary values and whether they place women as outsiders. 

• Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value – NYTimes.com A long article that discusses the benefits of using technology in the classroom. “In a nutshell: schools are spending billions on technology, even as they cut budgets and lay off teachers, with little proof that this approach is improving basic learning. Advocates for giving schools a major technological upgrade say digital devices let students learn at their own pace, teach skills needed in a modern economy and hold the attention of a generation weaned on gadgets. Some backers of this idea say standardized tests, the most widely used measure of student performance, don’t capture the breadth of skills that computers can help develop. But they also concede that for now there is no better way to gauge the educational value of expensive technology investments. “   

• Kids read 64 million minutes in the 2011 Scholastic Summer Challenge. ”Kids read 64,213,141 minutes in the 2011 Scholastic Summer Challenge. The summer reading program, which ended last night at midnight, gave kids a chance to read books they want to read, log their reading minutes, complete weekly reading challenges, and win all kinds of prizes like sample book chapters, audio chapters, and even virtual badges of their favorite book series.”   

• Teaching “Search” | Hack Education A researcher asked people about their search strategies, giving them a series of hypothetical scenarios in which they’d need to look something up and asked how they’d proceed with finding the right information. The results show a lack of skills 

• Response: Several Ways To Help Students Become Better Listeners – Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo – Education Week Teacher How to help students develop better listening skills   

• iLibrarian » 25+ Resources to Create Library Videos Offers “How To’s”, tools, library videos, branding on YouTube etc.  

• Something to Shout About: New research shows that more librarians means higher reading scores A piece about how librarians and library programs do make an impact on reading scores.  

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.

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