Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Libraries...

If you are in any sector of education, you know that past rooms with tables and dusty books are not completely a thing of the past, but seem like they are getting there. Millennials are constantly looking for new and up-to-date services that provide information. While companies online and off are trying to keep up, libraries are growing on the struggling list.

Disconnects Between Library Cultureand Millennial Generation Values:

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EQM0640.pdf

Thursday, August 06, 2009

By the Book: Technology Helps North Carolina School Close the Reading Gap
By Bridget McCrea07/30/09


Kathy Schwabe knows that there's a standard assessment that most American schools use to keep tabs on their students' reading progress, but that didn't stop this Title I teacher from exploring a newer, more promising option a few years ago.

"It was sort of a fluke," recalled Schwabe, a reading teacher at Speas Elementary School in Winston-Salem, NC. "We didn't have enough first grade teachers, and until new ones were hired we needed a better way to monitor the children's progress."


Read More:
http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/07/30/by-the-book-technology-helps-north-carolina-school-close-the-reading-gap.aspx