ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

Bir is working to add a feature that would let users upvote resources they found helpful, he adds. But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? The project reflects work that libraries have been doing for a long time, says Steven Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University.

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Digital Resources Library K-12 Middle School 120

Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

Here’s a better solution: a 3rd-grade teacher working on checks for understanding searches for that term in your district’s Edthena video library. Edthena makes it possible for districts to build and host a private video library that becomes available to all teachers across the district, accessed securely using their district emails.

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Library Teaching Digital Resources Lesson Plan 105

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

While a year teaching and learning with COVID-19 looming unveiled inequities that have always existed, what was learned can inform how the nation proceeds in transforming educational systems designed to understand and address the learner variability of each student.

Teaching 145

Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley on Friday, April 10, 2015. Unlike a K-12 teacher, a professor has the right to choose course materials – it’s not a decision made by the administration. Most faculty members had a “very positive response” to the idea of open educational resources, Sánchez said.

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K-12 Library Digital Resources Tradition 110

Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

As the moderator of a SXSWedu panel covering the Challenges of Curation in K-12 Schools, I held several brainstorm calls with the panelists, sent them thought-starter questions, solicited feedback from teacher and librarian contacts in the industry, and thought I was as ready as I could be.

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K-12 Education Library Digital Resources 91

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The group also created a free, digital curriculum called “Reading Like a Historian” that’s been downloaded more than three million times, according to Wineburg. “We In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens.

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 103