IA Reads

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Digital Citizenship

I made a Digital Citizenship display on the library bulletin board. Some great resources here:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators
http://dlrp.berkman.harvard.edu/

MAME 17 had a really nice presentation on becoming a certified teacher on the Common Sense Media digital citizenship curriculum. It's on my list of things to do...


Friday, January 8, 2016

Proud of these students for fighting for their education

http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/theres-no-thing-library-without-librarian-soooo-saveourlibrary/

Monday, January 4, 2016

In Michigan, there are 60 percent fewer [school] librarians than just ten years ago...

http://www.mcls.org/news/2015/12/23/making-a-difference-for-school-libraries-by-mcls-executive-director-randy-dykhuis/

Article worth reading.  A sad commentary on the state of Michigan school libraries.  I know a lot of my colleagues have lost their positions and many school libraries are closed.  Sixty percent is more than I thought.