library leadership
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Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
I don’t think of myself as a gamer. I have been known to play lots of those Flash-based Facebook games with my Candy Crush Saga friends, and occasionally a great puzzle-based novella will come along like Gabriel Knight 2, Syberia or Ripper that I devour, but generally I didn’t think they were a big part…
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Storify: Treasure Mountain Canada 2014
What a fabulous day! Even though I grumbled yesterday about our early 8 a.m. start, my jet lag had me up at 5 a.m. I found a great coffee shop with an early start and energized. There were so many new faces, familiar faces and people from my online PLN, that very soon we felt…
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Transliteracy and the teacher-librarian
I submitted this paper today in fulfillment of the requirements for my M.Ed. INTRODUCTION From curious to competitive I always felt most comfortable working with students in portfolio courses where students knew what they needed to accomplish and had ample opportunity to do and re-do their assignments until they were satisfied. I came into being…
Alanna King, Andrew Churches, Brantley-Dias, Chris Dede, Christine Bruce, David W. Moore, definition of literacy, digital literacy, Doug Achterman, education technology, educational research, Elizabeth Dobler, Hilary Hughes, Ian Jukes, information literacy, ISTE, Julie Coiro, Lee Crockett, library leadership, Lindy Henderson, literacy, literacy promotion, Mary Somerville, Matthew J. Koehler, Michael Fullan, Nicholas Carr, ontario school library association, Pam Berger, professional development, Punya Mishra, research, Ruben Puentedura, SAMR, Sonia Livingstone, Stuart Hales, Sue Thomas, teacher-librarian, technology integration, TPACK, transliteracy -
Research methods and methodologies in education by Larry V. Hedges
Research Methods and Methodologies in Education by Larry V. Hedges My rating: 4 of 5 stars A qualitatively comprehensive guide to research methods in education. I guess education by nature is a social science so my only disappointment with this book is that it didn’t make me any better at math. I was hoping to…
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IGNITE presentation: Arts-based research
For those of you who haven’t found out about the Pecha Kucha style of presentation, there’s already another kid on the block. It’s even faster than Pecha Kucha with 20 slides at 15 seconds each. I found it really difficult to do asynchronously but that’s what my professor wanted so I tried. First she had…
threadbare beauty 