The one mantra coming from teachers that I keep hearing is “we are building the plane as we fly it” in reference to the challenges of hybrid classrooms. This is new for K-12 perhaps, but old ...
The following is an excerpt from a post last week in Campus Technology, reporting on the results of a set of recent surveys of university faculty and employers on college and career readiness: N...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/closing-the-college-readiness-gap/
Librarians often find themselves in the position to give advice to classroom instructors on designing research assignments. So, what elements go into a well-designed research assignment? The ...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/the-well-designed-research-assignment/
Happy New Year! I love the beginning of a new year, and one of my favorite things is to check out predictions about ed tech trends for the coming year. I’ve looked over several lists, but my ha...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2015/01/07/library-trends-for-2015/
Students need to become digital citizens in order to function in a digital world. I think we all recognize that, but teaching the skills that make up digital citizenship is a patchwork job in man...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/who-should-teach-digital-citizenship/
Let’s face it. Not everyone recognizes the value of libraries or librarians. And in an age of budget cuts, there is an increasing sense of urgency to measure the value and impact of libraries o...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/11/19/quantifying-the-value-of-librarians/
The most effective teachers understand the fundamental principles of human learning and how to apply those principles to learner-centered instruction. Now that librarians have taken on a greater...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/recommended-reading-telling-aint-training/
This past week, I came across an article in The Atlantic that discussed a recent study about the importance of student-teacher relationships. When students and teachers find out they share inter...
Last week, I attended my daughter’s open house. She just started middle school (6th grade). As we went through and met her teachers, I began to wonder how research skills fit into the curriculu...
https://designerlibrarian.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/making-library-classroom-connections/
It’s back to school time! You’ve probably hit the ground running with library instruction, and most of that instruction probably falls into the one-shot category. We all know the limitations...