Schooliblit
News, ideas, questions, tips, links, and musings about school library media centers, information literacy, books and reading, and technology in education.
Doing It by Melvin Burgess. Jenna writes "Have you heard about Melvin Burgesss new novel Doing It? It's not even due out until May but it's already controversial. Anne Fine wrote a review about it. And here is Burgess's rebuttal which contains a link to other reviewers and readers comments." [LISNews.com]
Wow! I'll have to watch this one.
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Virtual Training Suite Here's a resource I need to spend some time on. "RDN have developed subject-based tutorials which are perfect for getting to grips with an unfamiliar subject ." The quote is from the latest issue of the Free Pint Newsletter. RDN is the Resource Development Network, which is "a national Internet search service designed to provide access to high quality Internet resources that can support learning, teaching and research in the UK."
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From Now On The April issue of Jamie Mckenzie's great webzine about technology and education is available now. One of the main articles is about questioning, "Questioning as Technology". This is something I wish we spent more time talking about at my school, especially with the older students. If we're serious about inquiry-based learning being a key to information literacy, then learning how to question is one of the most basic skills.
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