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eBooks 14 Replies
Started by Irene Kwidzinski in Collection Development. Last reply by Irene Kwidzinski on Thursday.
Learning Commons 3 Replies
Started by Irene Kwidzinski in Collection Development. Last reply by Irene Kwidzinski Jan 23.
Web 2.0 Tools 8 Replies
Started by Chris Barlow in Web 2.0. Last reply by Irene Kwidzinski Jan 20.
CASL members at ISTE 5 Replies
Started by David Bilmes in Web 2.0. Last reply by Irene Kwidzinski Jul 2, 2011.
Elementary 17 Replies
Started by Irene Kwidzinski in Web 2.0. Last reply by Irene Kwidzinski Jun 16, 2011.
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Back to School
Posted by Irene Kwidzinski on September 4, 2011 at 3:30pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
Hurricane Irene delayed school for most people in Connecticut. That gave us some extra time to reassess and tweak our plans for the beginning of a new year. What are your priorities this year?
Joyce Valenza is concentrating on how we can all better manage our information lives and the role of curation in research. Read her blog on Web 3.0. She is…
ContinueBe a "Soul Learner"*
Posted by Irene Kwidzinski on July 14, 2011 at 9:00am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I just finished John Seely Brown's The Power of Pull and am re-energized. The epilogue, "The Journey from Passion to Pull" was fabulous and gelled all of his ideas for me. So of course, I have to share.
Bottom line, we all have to share our passion for learning. Isn't that why we chose education in the first place? If we are passionate about reading and learning, they will come. We will "pull" them.
"Pull demands that we…
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Quotes
" Be the edge that transforms the core." Brown, The Power of Pull
"Transliteracy = ability to adapt." 2011 SLJ Summit
"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." John Dewey
"The shift from a teaching focus to a learning focus is a crucial one." Violet Harada
“If you don’t promote yourself, you’re doomed to defend yourself.” Ken Haycock at CIL 2010
"Every interaction might be the whole thing." Seth Godin blog
"The only way to be a 21st-century teacher is to be a 21st-century learner." ISTE webinar 2/25/10
"Be present where they are." Will Richardson on Twitter
"Only one method of improving reading ability really works: engaging in a great deal of interesting (better yet, compelling), comprehensible reading." Stephen Krashen in the May/June 2009 KQ
"We have to go into their territory." by Frank McCourt in the Danbury News-Times, C3, 7/24/2009
"Don't retire---inspire." Mickey Rooney in Parade 11/15/2009
"We need to support kids in being creators of information instead of receivers of information." Marco Torres
"Find out what people want and give it to them." Paul LeClerc, NYPL president, in the NY Times 11/19/09
"Do what you do best and link to the rest." Jeff Jarvis on BuzzMachine 3/8/10
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