Valibrarian

Today is Digital Learning Day and I am whirling through tecnology tools and formats (alongside physical resources) in my school library as I seek best practices for teaching digital literacy in what has become “participatory culture”. My 4th graders are studying poetry and I am teaching them to share through our library blog. I want [...]

    Have we all become newboys shouting “Extra? Extra? Read all about it!” in reference to our own personal lives through our social media?       Seth Godin says we all now “spout and scout“.  I have been estimating that 98% of this spouting is triviality adding to the clutter that I call [...]

With the flood of information came the responsibility of each of us to critically evaluate our daily intake. We jump from post to tweet to text to tool to (maybe just maybe) printed word. For over twenty years one of my roles has been the aquisition of resources (sounds so stuffy and academic, huh? We [...]