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Virtual Author Visits in Your Library or Classroom - Skype An Author Network
"The mission of the Skype an Author Network is to provide K-12 teachers and librarians with a way to connect authors, books, and young readers through virtual visits."
November Learning » Compiled Resources for validating websites
compilation of some great resources to help students learn to evaluate/validate websites
Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
great "spoof" site for teaching kids about evaluating web sites
Angela Maiers: We Need Your Voice! : Adolescent Literacy Panel on Elluminate Oct. 19
"On October 19, panel members will be highlighting the major themes and outcomes of their findings and welcome your input and suggestions as they move forward in their recommendations. Links to the full report, Time to Act, as well as the five corresponding reports, which delve deeper into how to advance literacy and learning for all students, including such topics as the cost of implementing adolescent literacy programs and reading in the disciplines are provided."
Eduflack: "A Time to Act"
"Carnegie Corporation of New York's Council on Advancing Adolescent Literacy releases its much-anticipated "Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success. In Time to Act, Carnegie lays out clear action steps for educators and school leaders to take if they are to improve adolescent literacy and ensure that their students are indeed prepared for college-level work. But in this era of education reform and intervention, perhaps the most interesting recommendations are the challenges that Carnegie puts forward for federal and state policymakers. "
Advancing Literacy: Time to Act-Carnegie Report Website
"Time to Act is the capstone report of Carnegie Council for Advancing Adolescent Literacy (Council). Since 2004, under the direction of Council Chairperson Catherine Snow, professor in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Council has gathered knowledge and ideas from experts nationwide on topics ranging from linguistics to the social science of teaching. Time to Act is released with five corresponding reports, which delve deeper into how to advance literacy and learning for all students, including such topics as the cost of implementing adolescent literacy programs and reading in the disciplines. "
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - ICT Literacy Maps
In collaboration with several content area organizations, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills developed a series of ICT Literacy Maps illustrating the intersection between Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Literacy and core academic subjects including English, mathematics, science and social studies (civics/government, geography, economics, history). The maps enable educators to gain concrete examples of how ICT Literacy can be integrated into core subjects, while making the teaching and learning of core subjects more relevant to the demands of the 21st century.
melaniemcbride.net » The hidden curriculum of 21st century learning
few 21st century learning priorities are less about technical skills, tools, services, software or hardware but far more social, cultural and behavioural as they relate to states of being, thinking, feeling and acting with technology. The basis for this post is the problematic notion among some educators that these “softer” skills are either already present or easily accessible to learners (or else constitute some sort of “giftedness” or intrinsic “aptitude” or need not be explicitly taught or modeled). Furthermore, I’d like to suggest that these priorities be socially, culturally and cognitively differentiated according to the unique needs of varied learners and learning communities. The hidden curriculum of 21st Century learning refers to all of the skills – which are increasingly soft and social – that are presumed but not explicitly taught or scaffolded in education. Skills that are largely present among the most socially privileged learners but not explicitly addressed within the curriculum or school structure as a whole.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool
The Book Whisperer-Donalyn Miller
Donalyn Miller is a 6th grade language arts and social studies teacher in Texas who is said to have a "gift": She can turn even the most reluctant (or in her words "dormant") readers into students who can't put their books down. After responding to reader questions in her popular, "Creating Readers" Ask The Mentor column, Donalyn returns to blog. She writes about how to inspire and motivate student readers, and responds to issues facing teachers and other leaders in the literacy field.
Literacy with ICT - IMYM Tutorials Wiki / Flickr Toys and More
"Curricular Applications of Flickr Toys, GlassGiant and/or Dumpr"
Joan Ganz Cooney Center - Advancing Children's Learning in a Digital Age
Forty years after Joan Ganz Cooney's landmark study stimulated the creation of Sesame Street, Sesame Workshop has established a new center devoted to accelerating children's learning in a rapidly changing world.
The Joan Ganz Cooney Center will focus new attention on the challenges children face today, asking the 21st century equivalent of her original question, "How can emerging media help children learn?"
Book Video Ning-Joyce Valenza
"Sharing media (in any digital format) to promote books, reading, and literacy K-12. "
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write - WSJ.com
"Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone"
YouTube - A Portal to Media Literacy-Michael Wesch Presentation at University of Manitoba, June 17, 20008
Incredible, inspiring presentation by Michael Wesch, Cultural Anthropologist where he describes how in integrates emerging technologies into his courses from the smallest seminar type class to the largest lecture theatre filled class.
LeaderTalk on Education Week
The first group blog by school leaders for school leaders, LeaderTalk expresses the voice of the administrator in this era of school reform.
Artists for Literacy - Projects-Searchable collection of songs inspired by literature
SIBL Library. The only searchable collection of Songs Inspired By Literature in existence. These songs are a testament to the power of the storytelling and the creative process.
You can search for your favorite Book, Author, Song or Artists here. We have also added links, lyrics and additional information to add to the SIBL experience! Once you have found a SIBL of interest click on Tools to get all the information about that SIBL.
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