Parkway School District Library Services
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#ParkwayReads Digital Reading According to a 2016 survey by OverDrive and ASCD, educators agree that ebooks and audiobooks have the advantage over print materials when it comes to delivering individualized instruction. Students can absorb content at their own pace and explore learning online or offline with familiar devices like Chromebooks or tablets. For younger students, ebooks offer a gateway into technology. Many eBook platforms offer features such as an exportable note-taking and highlighting tool, and a built-in dictionary. For more information and a link to the this study go to: http://www.techlearning.com/blogentry/11160
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Personalized Professional Learning EdWeb Webinars Edweb.net offer many free, relevant webinars. Check out their monthly calendar and register through edweb.net They also have access to archived webinars that are also applicable. Some archived webinars include: ●
Designing Your Classroom to Prepare Students for 2020 and Beyond ● Meet the Makers: Makerspace Tips and Trends ● Student-Led Game Making and Learning Upcoming webinars: ● Pack More Relevancy and Engagement into Social Studies! ● Building a Digital Collection ● Personalizing Instruction Through the Library Access the library catalog from anywhere!
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"You weren’t hired to maintain the status quo. You were hired to make a difference and make an impact. @justintarte
#FutureReady - Professional Learning 9 Steps to a Future Ready Education
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Media Literacy Week highlights the importance of teaching children and teens digital and media literacy skills to ensure their interactions with media are positive and enriching. Oct 31 Nov. 4 November is Picture Book Month International Games Day Nov 19 Hour of Code The Hour of Code takes place each year during Computer Science Education Week. December 5-11. Get started at hourofcode.com/us.
Future ready goes beyond adopting technology, it’s about meeting the learning demands of the future. Earlier this year, the Department of Education released its 2016 National Technology Plan and celebrated the first anniversary of its Future Ready Schools initiative. For school districts like Parkway to truly be future ready, it goes beyond the acquisition of devices and web tools. There are nine steps for schools to consider in order to bring future-ready momentum to the classroom: ● Embrace a powerful vision of student-led learning. The first step to approaching a future-ready education initiative is to identify and envision your organization’s end goal. In today’s learning environment, it should be students at the center, not the educators. ● Align leadership, management, and resources with goals. ● Assess where your schools are now. ● Identify the future-ready skills to focus on. Education needs to evolve, so as to teach and prepare students for the needs of our future workforce, and the skills needed to drive this continue to change. ● Create a professional development plan for future-ready skills. ● Grant students equitable access to technology and information. ● Develop assessments to measure student progress in future-ready skills. ● Collaborate with outside partners and community. It takes the support of an entire community to build a successful future-ready initiative. ● Plan collectively and strategically for the future. Ultimately, future-ready education is about making content relevant to students’ lives and creating opportunities for students to interact with each other, with teachers and with other knowledgeable adults in authentic learning experiences. Read the article in its entirety at Ed Tech
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#FutureReady - Curates Resources & Tools Kids Love Comics - Try Pixton Pixton is an online tool used to create comics, graphic novels, and storyboards. Pixton provides users with huge galleries of artwork to drag, drop, and manipulate. Learn how to use Pixton by watching the short video found here. Some lessons that might fit nicely with cartoons might include: ● Create short biographies of historical figures. Have students select a key moment from a person’s life. Then ask your students to illustrate that moment. ● Illustrate a timeline of an event or series of events. Pixton offers a free lesson plan designed around this concept. ● Students can use some of the artwork available in Pixton to simulate text message and or email exchanges between characters or historical figures. ● Create storyboards to show what they know about a particular subject.
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5 Resources for Creative Commons or Public Domain Pics A common question is where can I direct students to images that are acceptable to use in their slide presentations, videos, or other multimedia projects. It is tempting to them to simply perform a Google search. Instead they should be consulting sources for images that are either in the public domain or that have been labeled for reuse with a Creative Commons license. Richard Byrne created the a video that provides an overview of five sources of public domain and Creative Commons licensed images: Google Advanced Search, Flickr/commons, Pixabay, Photos for Class, and Morgue File.
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3 Tips for Saving Time & Space in Google Chrome To get the most of Google Chrome see how these three little-known tips from bettercloud.com can save you time, space and sanity. ● Use bookmarks more efficiently ● Easily mute audio in an open tab ● Search faster
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#edcampKC will be hosting their 7th Edcamp on November 5, 2016 at Truman High School in Independence, MO. Join educators from all over the Midwest and the United States and learn together! Saturday, November 5, 2016 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM Truman High School 3301 S. Noland Rd Independence, MO 64055 For additional details and registration visit edcampkc.wikispaces.com
Contact Information Bill Bass Innovation Coordinator: Instructional Technology & Library Media Twitter: billbass
Amy Johnson Digital Learning Specialist Twitter: ajohnson106
Kim Lindskog Library Support Specialist Twitter: klindskog
Nancy Ikemeyer Administrative Assistant Skype: nancy,ikemeyer.pearl Twitter: NancyIkemeyer
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