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October 18, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
My big goal for the year is to promote reading. So I asked my practicum student, Chrissy Sirianni, to use my BookLeads wiki as an inspiration and add her own special curating touch to create a YA Lit Guide. And then I asked her to reflect on her work: I was thrilled when Joyce suggested […]
October 14, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
I love the phrase: knowledge citizen! I just watched Howard Rheingold’s interview with Pierre Levy, collective intelligence guru. Here’s the exchange (at around 11:50) that clarified for me what happened this week as our kids discovered curation as a search tool and a a strategy for knowledge building. We are working on growing knowledge citizens. […]
October 13, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Carol Simpson shared this resource on LM_NET earlier this week. If your middle or high school teachers explore Supreme Court cases with their learners, if you believe in the importance of civics education, you’ll want to share and add Oyez, Oyez, Oh Yay! to your pathfinders. Even if you’re not in Texas! The Texas State […]
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October 12, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
I’ve been talking a lot about curating for and with students lately. As the curation movement gets stickier, more and more librarians and educators are joining. So I tasked my very able practicum student Chrissy Sirianni to help me pick some Scoop.its to share, offering a taste of the kind of current awareness the tool […]
October 10, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Note: I am a member of this OITP committee and I urge my brilliant TL friends to apply for this recognition! OITP, LITA seek nominations for cutting-edge technology practices Washington, D.C. – The American Library Association (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) are soliciting nominations for […]
October 9, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
We eased into teaching curation, getting our feet wet by introducing it as a search tool a couple of weeks ago. This week we decided to jump in completely and we chose Paper.li as a platform for curating senior project research. (Decision digression: I went back and forth between Scoop.it and Paper.li, finally decided on […]
October 8, 2011 by Joyce Valenza
Over 14 million Americans are unemployed. Now imagine you’re one of them. Your savings are gone. You’ve lost your house. You’re a single parent. You’re down to your last $1,000. Can you make it through the month? Spent is a simulation designed to introduce young people to what it means to truly be down on […]
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