Category Archives: Research
AASL 2013: Confronting the Data Dragon
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Ron Mader Good morning, AASL! Debbie Abilock and I are presenting this morning on the Big Data movement and its opportunities and implications for librarians. You can download the slides … Continue reading
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“There are no shortcuts in professional development”
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by marya In, “Benefits of Online, Face-to-Face Professional Development Similar, Study Finds,” Education Week blogger Benjamin Herold reported earlier this week on research by my U-M colleague Barry Fishman. From the post: … Continue reading
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CCSS and Digital Testing
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Håkan Dahlström I’ve long worried that schools are focusing so much on acquiring print texts for Common Core State Standards alignment that they’re overlooking the fact that the standardized tests from … Continue reading
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Who Knew? Research Tasks are REALLY important in PARCC
This month, the PARCC testing group (one of the two state consortia responsible for creating assessments for the Common Core State Standards, or CCSS) has released some testing guidance. If your state has adopted CCSS, they belong either to the … Continue reading
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New Connected Learning Report from DML Central
Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design via kwout Released Tuesday by Mizuko Ito and her Digital Media and Learning team and currently burning a hole in my school bag — can’t wait to read it! I love this quote … Continue reading
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1918 Influenza Encyclopedia
Congratulations to the University of Michigan Center for the History of Medicine and MPublishing at the University of Michigan Library for their launch of the Influenza Encyclopedia, a digital encyclopedia capturing primary sources and information related to the 1918-1919 flu … Continue reading
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Join Me: Booklist Webinar on Common Core State Standards
Hi, y’all — on Tuesday, I’ll be giving a free webinar on the Common Core State Standards and research for K-8 students. The webinar will be geared toward K-8 educators and public librarians and sponsored by Cherry Lake Publishing. Their … Continue reading
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Research Universities and the Future of America
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Information Literacy in the Wild :: free eBook
On behalf of the University of Michigan’s SI 641 / EDCURINS 575 : Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning class, I invite you to download a copy of our 170+ page book, Information Literacy in the Wild. In this book, we share … Continue reading
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Library Facebook Pages: Preaching to the Choir?
Many libraries jumped on the social media bandwagon, creating blogs, Twitter feeds, Facebook pages, and more. But is it garnering the hoped-for kind of patron/student engagement? From the current issue of D-Lib: Academic Libraries on Facebook: An Analysis of Users’ … Continue reading
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