Ideas Needed for Nudging Toward Inquiry: Questioning

August 27th, 2010

Hi, y’all — We could use a few more of your great ideas for the November issue of SLM’s Nudging Toward Inquiry column. If you can help, please submit below!

Thanks,
Kristin




Take the SLM Survey: Tell Us What Works For You!

August 26th, 2010

School Library Monthly wants to know what resonates for you in the magazine. Will you help them out? Here’s the announcement …

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Online Discussion: Teaching the iGeneration

August 24th, 2010

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If you follow blogs, Twitter, or school library listservs, then the name Bill Ferriter won’t come as a surprise to you. He stirred up quite a bit of controversy this spring when he urged librarians to tone down their librarian-as-superhero language. It was a fair point that, unfortunately, spiralled into some pretty negative back-and-forth. I wrote about it here.

But as time goes on, I keep going back to Ferriter’s work, partly because he says some very good things that have been very useful in our preparations for our Teaching with Technology course in the School of Educaiton, partly because his very provocativeness makes me step back and rethink my preconceptions, partly because many of our Teaching with Technology students find resonance in Ferriter’s work. It’s good to feel uncomfortable once in a while, right?

Alice Yucht Tweeted that Ferriter, his co-author Adam Garry, the fabulous Meg Ormiston, and his publisher, Solution Tree, are embarking on a VoiceThread discussion project around Ferriter and Garry’s new book, Teaching the iGeneration, and a portion of Ormiston’s forthcoming book.

Here’s the best part: you can download the FULL TEXT of Teaching the iGeneration and a sample Ormiston chapter if you register for free at the Solution Tree site.

Click here to view Ferriter’s post and all the details.

Wouldn’t this be a great way to kick off your building’s professional development season — for free? (Ahhh, free … the magic bullet of staying afloat in these hard times.) You’d be bound to get some great conversation out of it.




 
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