Archive for November, 2011

Spotlight | Neag School of Education at UConn » Article » Neag

Sandra M. Chafouleas, Ph.D., a professor in the school psychology program and a research scientist at the Neag Center for Behavioral Research (CBER), has received a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of … of educational psychology and special education, program coordinator of Special Education, and also a CBER research scientist, [...]

Information Literacy Librarian (Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi) |

Information Literacy Librarian: Coordinates the library instruction program, including scheduling sessions, assigning instructors, developing instruction programs, and collecting and analyzing data related to library instruction. …

Student Loan | Can College Financial Literacy Programs Reverse

Last year default rates on student loans reached their highest levels reported since 1999, increasing from 7% the previous year to 8.8%, according to Chris Spur.

Information Literacy Weblog: Academic literacies videos

We bring you news and reports about information literacy around the world … Photo by Sheila Webber: Information Literate cupcakes at the Augustana Information Literacy seminar at Alberta University, Canada. Posted by …

Literacy Spot #48: Letters to Santa

It is a weekly reminder of the importance of young children learning playfully as each week I share one idea for playing around with literacy, taken from my many years working as an early childhood teacher. Visit the previous …

Doctors take part in literacy program – North Adams Transcript

Tuesday November 22, 2011 New England Newspapers NORTH ADAMS — Read a book. It's good for you. That's the message being delivered by at least five Berkshire County pediatrics offices during November, Family …

High School Webloggers Culmination Program Set on November 6

The said training was held at the City Public Library last September 13, 2011 to October 18, 2011 through the SHEEP Computer Literacy Program. Each school sent 9 participants to the training for 1 day. The Best Blogger of …

What skills do students, teachers, and librarians need to build media

Jennifer M. Henson (2011) Media Literacy, Department of Educational Leadership and Human Development University of Central Missouri. An important aspect of application of media literacy for teaching and learning is for …

Information Literacy Weblog: New articles on information literacy

Nazari, M. (2011) "A contextual model of information literacy." Journal of Information Science, 37(4): 345-359. This describes her model of IL for Geographic Information Science/Systems. An article from my former PhD student, …

AODHÁN Ó RÍORDÁIN TD: Extensive literacy & numeracy

"I would like to see the Minister entering into discussions with the Department of Education in order to formulate a programme that would ensure all prisoners engaged in educational programmes are literate and numerate by …