I couldn't say it better: Retire the "21st Century" in "21st Century Learning"

IF ONLY EVERY CHILD HAD ACCESS...

Hank Thiele has blogged about a concept many teacher-librarians mutter about. Effective learning is neither restricted to some future time, nor to a specific technology. To Learn Twice: Retire the "21st Century" in "21st Century Learning"


For some related perspective, he recommends Lisa Nielsen's summary of John T. Spencer's Adventures in Pencil Integration blog: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/08/pencil-integration-blog-historical.html

Last Minute News: I'm Presenting!

I'm presenting on QR codes at the ALA 2011 conference Sunday morning. Look for "Pecha Kucha: Teens and Technology" @ 10:30 in rm 394! Please come for a YALSA panel on various ways to use technology to serve teens in your libraries. Check the conference scheduler for all the presenters, topics, and presentations.

If you're interested in more information on using QR codes, there's also a link to my four handouts: QR Code Generators/Readers, Ideas for QR Codes in Libraries, Ideas for QR Codes in School, and Thanks to My PLN (a list of early adopters who have already been exploring creative use of QR's in their libraries).

Things Change

Will Richardson thinks about what will happen as our students develop their own personal learning networks - instead of attending fixed classes, in Personal Learning Networks (An Excerpt). Could we be obsolete as teachers?

It's the Words and Ideas

I can't get away from the words. Where else in the universe would you be paid to read and review, analyze, recommend and promote words and ideas that are meaningfully connected? We have the opportunity to display and market the ideas of our culture that will shape the world of the future.

--Posted by Carolyn at 1/23/2006 08:48:34 AM