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  • 8 Ways The Librarian Of The Future Will Keep Themselves Busy
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    8 Ways The Librarian Of The Future Will Keep Themselves Busy

    ByTeachThought Staff

    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…

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  • You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture
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    You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture

    ByTerry Heick

    Ray Bradbury redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it back on culture itself.

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  • where to find free books online
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    33 Sources Of Hundreds Of Thousands Of Free eBooks

    ByTeachThought Staff

    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…

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  • The Jarring Collision Between Digital Screens And Close Reading
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    The Jarring Collision Between Digital Screens And Close Reading

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Digital reading, hyperlinks, and Tweets can provide all of our text consumption without second thought–especially for the youth.

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  • 200 ways to say went
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    Improving Student Vocabulary: 600 Other Ways To Say Common Things

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Your students are bright, but at times in the classroom, it may not always show.

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    When Teaching Gets In The Way Of Reading Comprehension

    ByGrant Wiggins

    “When we consider our own perspective first, it is easier to think about the writer’s overarching ideas”

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  • 10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century
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    10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century

    ByTerry Heick

    Sketch notes aren’t just a trend, but rather a new visual style of capturing and documenting ideas for the 21st century student.

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  • 8 Alternatives To Blogging For Students In The Classroom
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    8 Alternatives To Blogging For Students In The Classroom

    ByTerry Heick

    What digital tools allow students to communicate in new ways, but with a clear sense of audience, purpose, and application of the writing process?

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    Catching Up With The Kids: Moving School Libraries Into The New Media Era

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Even just in terms of available information, the library of today is a very different place from the library of 50 years ago

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  • 4 New Punctuation Marks For The 21st Century
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    4 New Punctuation Marks For The 21st Century

    ByTeachThought Staff

    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…

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  • What Is Google Course Builder?
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    How To Google Search By Reading Level

    ByTerry Heick

    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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  • How To Cite An App
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    How To Cite An App

    ByTeachThought Staff

    Rightsholder, A. A. (year). Title of Software or Program (Version number) [Description of form]. Retrieved from http://xxxxx

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    Literacy & The Common Core: 5 Technology Tools To Measure Text Complexity

    ByTeachThought Staff

    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…

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  • digital literacy
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    4 Principles Of Digital Literacy

    ByTerry Heick

    In the 21st century, new literacies are emerging and digital media forms allow communication to be more nuanced than ever before.

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