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#BIT15Reads: Google hangout and making your reading visible
Today at 7:30 pm ET I’ll be hosting our second Google Hangout On Air so please join us if you’re able at: https://plus.google.com/events/cjq0v12mnjjivqrogee67tsebbo or watch the live videostream here: A few years ago now I worked with a team at my school in a Professional Learning Practice action research project where we learned how to…
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#BIT15Reads Labour Day Weekend Google Hangout On Air
Testing testing! This is our first attempt at meeting face-to-face….online! Using Google Hangouts on Air this is supposed to let me: talk to some of my favourite #BIT15Reads members livestream our discussion record the event for later playback via YouTube Don’t worry if you can’t make it this time, because we’re going to try to…
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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…
Black & White, book reviews, Candy Crush Saga, collection development, definition of literacy, digital identity, Eagles Flight, educational research, educational technology, Epic Winners, Gabriel Knight 2, Game of Thrones Ascent, game-based learning, games for change, information literacy, inquiry-based learning, Jane McGonigal, Lemonade Stand, library leadership, Librarygame, literacy promotion, McGonigal, meaningful games, non-fiction, Plants vs. Zombies, professional development, Quest to Learn, Reality is Broken, Ripper, school librarian, secondary school library, secondary school teacher, serious games, Sim City, Spore, student-centred learning, Syberia, teacher-librarian, technology, technology integration, The Audience, the game, The Sims, transliteracy, Twitter, Will Wright -
Making thinking visible
I started the year knowing that I wanted to spend more time helping students to be more visible about their thinking process. Why? I think we spend too much time evaluating products and not enough time evaluating processes Learning to express yourself is such an important skill Dissecting your own process will make patterns/habits visible…
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Reflection: on entering the library
E contacted me today thinking about career changes, or sidesteps moving from classroom teaching to some of those rarer positions in schools like teacher-librarianship, and asked what are the differences between being a classroom teacher and being a librarian. Moving into my fourth year in the library, I had a lot to say. Here’s my…
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