The ALA Information Literacy list is discussing how best to teach students the skills to find the best information. Many instructors let students settle for “good enough” resources found with a Google search.Leonard Pitts noted in his article Not voting for stupid 07/27/2008 the difference between ignorance and stupidity.Ignorance is a lack of information. We’re [...]
Earlier this month ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) issued a 2nd edition of its [US] National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Teachers. This is an association that I wasn’t aware of until I went into Second Life (where it is active), to be honest, but it seems to have prominence in the USA. [...]
Information Literacy Librarian (Source: Combined Library Job Postings – Lisjobs.com and Library Job Postings on the Internet) More: continued here
Nazim, Mohammad and Ahmad, Moin (2007) Research trends in information literacy : A bibliometric study. SRELS Journal of Information Management 44(1):pp. 53-62. (Source: E-LIS) More: continued here
A new national study on errors in student writing asks whether the top mistakes noted in previous studies have changed much in the digital era. OMG! Turns out students aren’t making significantly more errors, rising from 2.11 mistakes per 100 words in a 1917 study to 2.45 in this 2006 data. The big shift, though, [...]
Features collections of dozens of animations for teaching geoscience topics — atmosphere, biosphere, climate, earth’s surface, energy and material cycles, geology, human dimensions, hydrosphere and cryosphere, hydrology, ocean, solar system, solid earth, earth history, and more. Learn what makes an effective visualization and best practices for using visualizations in the classroom. (Carleton College, National Science [...]
Secretary Spellings announced the award of 13 new grants totaling $364,904 to promote partnerships between universities and to increase education and training opportunities in a wide range of academic and professional disciplines for students and faculty in both countries. More: continued here
Jessica Merritt compiled a great resource for librarians, of any type, with questions about gaming in libraries, “Bringing Gaming (and Gamers) to Your Library: 100 Tips and Resources.” Jessica’s list of 100 collects a lot of previous written information on gaming events, collections, and research. The list adds other items of interest and general tips [...]
A new national study on errors in student writing asks whether the top mistakes noted in previous studies have changed much in the digital era. OMG! Turns out students aren’t making significantly more errors, rising from 2.11 mistakes per 100 words in a 1917 study to 2.45 in this 2006 data. The big shift, though, [...]
For the ARLIS conference workshops I was running yesterday in Liverpool I created a set of pages, Social Networking, using Netvibes. This enabled me to put together feeds from blogs etc, links to websites, a couple of tools like web and video search boxes, some embedded items and boxes of text for explanations etc.The pages [...]