What the library of the future will look like is kind of up for debate. Will it be full of tablets that use Augmented Reality to search for physical resources? Will it be a mix of physical and digital resources that complement one another–digital logs and databases of physical texts? Or will libraries–as we currently…
Ray Bradbury redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it back on culture itself.
Where Can You Find Free Books Online? eBooks should’ve been a game-changing technology. The idea was simple enough: no longer did you need to travel to the library to wade through rows and stacks and floors and buildings and card catalogs only to wag home only as much as you could carry. Or risk spending…
Digital reading, hyperlinks, and Tweets can provide all of our text consumption without second thought–especially for the youth.
Your students are bright, but at times in the classroom, it may not always show.
“When we consider our own perspective first, it is easier to think about the writer’s overarching ideas”
Sketch notes aren’t just a trend, but rather a new visual style of capturing and documenting ideas for the 21st century student.
What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?
Even just in terms of available information, the library of today is a very different place from the library of 50 years ago
I think we can all agree that the tone of digital communication is decidedly different than that which occurs face to face. (At TeachThought, we’re unfortunately huge fans of the sarcastic and the sardonic.) While this shift in tone could be further proof of the internet’s complete dissolution of decent human interaction, that’s probably a…
Guide: How To Google Search By Reading Level by TeachThought Staff Update: This feature has been (either temporarily or permanently) removed by Google. We will update this post if that changes. In the meantime, check out How To Google Search by Date for smarter search results. Digital media have changed almost everything about reading—from multimodal…
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5 Technology Tools To Measure Text Complexity contributed by Kellie Ady, District Instructional Technology Coordinator, Cherry Creek Schools I posted some time ago about finding accessible online text, but a recent blog post from Eye on Education (“How to Select Complex Text to Increase Rigor”) made me think about revisiting the topic. My original post was more…
In the 21st century, new literacies are emerging and digital media forms allow communication to be more nuanced than ever before.