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The Role of Place in Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

According to a study by Tanner and Lackney (2006), the design of physical spaces significantly influences student engagement and academic performance. 2013; Hattie, 2012; Tanner & Lackney, 2006). Flexible seating arrangements, breakout spaces, and interactive learning corners empower students to take control of their learning.

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VHS Learning Is Awarded Teaching with Primary Sources Grant from Library of Congress 

eSchool News

This project is funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region program, managed by Waynesburg University. Primary sources will include photographs, audio recordings, videos, and manuscripts primarily from the Library of Congress. History curriculum.” Congress and the home of the U.S.

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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. Valenza, J.K.

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2020 Vision (revisited)

Dangerously Irrelevant

Since it’s now 2020, I thought it would be fun to revisit Karl Fisch’s video from 2006, titled 2020 Vision. The GCars also are WiFi access points, creating massive nationwide mesh networks. It was fascinating to see some of Karl’s projections from 2006. ‘Google Panels’ replace 2/3 of worldwide energy production.

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Launching SchoolLibraryNJ (and some models beyond)

NeverEndingSearch

We’re exited to launch SchoolLibraryNJ , a evolving project designed to address inequitable access to resources for K12 schools and libraries and to present the value of librarians in digitally curating resources for teaching and learning. Not every library has a realistic budget. But must we all begin from scratch?

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Open Library gets even more open

NeverEndingSearch

Created in 2006 by a team led by Aaron Swartz and Brewster Kahle, Open Library is an Internet Archive project developed to present one web page for every book ever published. Open Library now also offers a full-text search of its collection of Internet Archive’s more than 4 million books. Full-text search.

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AI in Higher Ed: Using What We Already Know About Good Teaching Practices

Edsurge

We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm. But the idea of the flipped classroom is credited to Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams in 2006.