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Library Services Volume 5 | Issue 1 Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world ~ Nelson Mandela
Updates New Books The following books were on YALSA’s (Young Adult Library Services Association) top list for young adult readers at the end of the school year. The Teens' Top Ten is a "teen choice" list, where teens nominate and choose their favorite books! Nominators are members of teen book groups in fifteen school and public libraries around the country. See all the Teens' Top Ten books, plus titles from YALSA's other awards and booklists, in the Teen Book Finder App.
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Curates Digital Resources & Tools
10 Ways to Google-Fy Your Open House & Back to School Night SIGN IN GOOGLE FORMS Put a couple of Chromebooks near the entryway of your classroom. Hit parents with Google the second they walk in your library classroom asking them to sign in using Google Forms. KAHOOT PLAYING IN LOOP Set up one of your computers to autoplay a Kahoot and project it on the big screen. Parents get a kick out of seeing how much fun their kids are having while learning at the same time. STUDENT PACED PEAR DECK STATIONS Set up a Pear Deck station. Put a couple of Chromebooks in an area of your classroom, with each computer running a different Pear Deck where parents and students can complete a couple of the Pear Deck tasks together. Students will love showing their parents “the ropes.” PLAY A VIDEO USING YOUTUBE In another part of the room, set up Chromebook’s running various videos of classroom content. Set up a playlist that covers the wide variety of topics you plan to cover in the classroom this coming quarter. More: 15 Best Educational YouTube Channels for the Classroom HYPERDOCS STATIONS Show off your hyperdocs with a station of its own. Put various hyperdocs on a few Chromebooks so parents can click their way through the exercises and explore some of the topics their children will be learning. GOOGLE SLIDES STATIONS Encourage parents to click through your Google Slides presentations. Create one about yourself, including information like: how long you’ve been teaching, where you went to school, your teaching philosophy and more.
GOOGLE DRAW STATION Let parents draw to their heart's content using Google Draw. Ask parents to save their best drawing with their name and do a slideshow of parent work with your students. More: 10 Ways to Use Google Drawings for Learning GOOGLE TOUR BUILDER STATIONS Show parents the places their kids are going with a Google Tour Builder station. Print a sheet of prompts for parents like: Map out your first-ever road trip or map out all the places you’ve lived in your life in chronological order. GOOGLE SITE PORTFOLIO STATION Create a Google Site for your classroom and post student work. Put together a bank of Chromebooks where students can show parents their portfolio of work thus far. CREATE A FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT STATION WITH SOCRATIVE Set up the station to show off a formative assessment and a Socrative space race game. Consider running through an assessment demo for parents once or twice throughout the night so they can see how it goes. Written by Whooo’s Reading The Blog
Personalized Professional Learning
#ParkwayReads MASL (Missouri Association of School Librarians) Announces Gateway Preliminary Nominees for 2018-2019 Readers Awards! Symptoms of Being Human The Shadow Queen When We Collided Phantom Limbs Great Falls The Serpent King Girl in Pieces Tell Me Three Things The Sun is Also a Star Heartless Nemesis Last Seen Leaving The Hard Count Amy Chelsea Stacie Dee The Girl From Everywhere The Memory Book My Lady Jane Three Dark Crowns Flashfall Holding Up the Universe
How Teaching is Changing
It’s tempting to say that no matter how much technology pushes on education, every teacher will always need to know iconic teacher practices like assessment, curriculum design, classroom management, and cognitive coaching. This may end up being true–how education changes in the next 20 years is a choice rather than the inevitable tidal wave of social and technological change it’s easy to sit back and wait for. Think of the very limited change in education since 2000 compared to the automotive industry, computer industry, retail consumer industry, etc. Huge leaps forward are not a foregone conclusion. But it’s probably going to be a bit different than that. There are certain areas where significant change is more probably than others. It doesn’t seem likely that eLearning–as we now understand and use the term–will replace schools and teachers.
Online courses are inferior to in-person teaching in too many important ways to completely supplant teachers and schools. (Blended learning is more likely to be the norm in the next decade.) This article contains 15 realities that modern educators today face from personalizations to data to lesson planning. Other examples include: Designing learning experiences that carry over seamlessly between home and school. ● Troubleshooting technology, including cloud-based issues, log-in info, etc. ● Refining driving questions and other matters of inquiry on an individual student basis ● Insisting on quality–of performance, writing, effort, etc.–when the planning, technology, and self-reflection fail ● Filtering apps based on operating system, cost, complexity, performance, audience, and purpose See the entire list at teachthought.com Written by Terry Heick.
Collaborative Leadership Educator Standards Released at ISTE 2017 As the new year begins, something to think about would be the new ISTE Standards for Educators. These new standards, release in June 2017, provide a great road map for creating a digital learning plan and empowering students as creators. Thinking through the new standards will help deepen practice, promote collaboration, and rethink our approach to learning. The Stretch your EdTech Practice brochure provides guidance and a checklist to our learning. Click here to see the Educator Standards
@Your Library August 19th National Aviation Day in the United States 5 Must-Read Children’s Books for National Aviation Day August 21st Poet's Day Website Poems for Children Auguts 26th National Dog Day Website 20 Ways To Celebrate All Month Back-to-School Pinterest Board 31 Incredible Bulletin Boards For Back To School Library In Your Pocket Google Doc We Put The "Library In Our Pockets" at Van Meter This Week National Peach Month Website James and the Giant Peach
National Back To School Month Website Back-to-School Books Pinterest Board
Empowers Students as Creators Center Mini Breakout Games An alternative to small group / whole group Breakout/Escape games, is for students to work independently and open a container based on content as a center. The idea is that a small pencil pouch or a small lock box, and a few clues can be used within a shorter time period where 2-3 students can complete. Here is an example of the one that was created for a Discovery Education conference. The content contained facts about Charlotte, NC. Use this as an inspiration to create your own content based game. Here is the link to all the materials and a walkthru to creating this breakout. Taken from Panico’s Page. Another great resource to find out more about Break EDU is the closed FaceBook group. This Breakout EDU (General Discussion) community is a forum to collaborate, brainstorm and connect with other educators. www.facebook.com/groups/breakoutedu/
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
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