Posted in education, students, tagged Add new tag on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Watch one of ANE’s terrific science teacher certification students, Rose Chaffee, talk about and demonstrate how to rock the classroom:
Posted in education on August 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Beloit College has released its Mindset List for the class of 2011, whose members are entering college this year and were born in 1989. Feeling old yet? If not, you may when you read the list.
To give you a taste of the “mindset” of this cohort, here are the first ten items on the list:
What [...]
Posted in education, technology on August 3, 2007 | No Comments »
Inside Higher Ed has a story on Ithaka’s new report, University Publishing in a Digital Age.
The report and its authors are suggesting that university presses focus less on the book form and consider a major collaborative effort to assume many of the technological and marketing functions that most presses cannot afford, and that universities be [...]
Posted in education, social justice on July 2, 2007 | No Comments »
According to Garrison Keillor in a recent column, not only is the library a “temple of freedom,” but “when politics gets mean and dumb, you can cheer yourself up by walking into a public library, one of the nobler expressions of democracy.”
We couldn’t agree more.
Posted in education on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
In case you missed it, there was a some controversy in the library/elementary education/children’s literature world earlier this year. And it all revolved around the word scrotum.
On the first page of the Newbery award winning book, The Higher Power of Lucky, you’ll find that word. According to a New York Times article, some librarians and [...]
