To mark Digital Learning Day, we’d like to spotlight the work of librarians who are making a difference, leveraging technology and digital content to enhance learning. Below you’ll find examples of their work covered in School Library Journal and here on The Digital Shift, along with links on topics of particular interest to our users: ebooks and apps.
The New York Times Learning Network, Figment, and the National Writing Project are among those offering resources and ideas on integrating digital content for DLD and beyond. And Education Week has a listing of state events.
Warren Buckleitner helps patrons of the Mediatech lab at the Flemington (NJ) Library.
Best Practices: Technology in the library
Hooray, we’re mobile! Our new app. NeverEndingSearch
With Ebooks, Students Come First
Kindles Attract Reluctant Readers at CT Elementary School
Librarian Serves up ‘Appy Hour’
Webinar Tackles a Conundrum for Kids and Educators Alike: Research Skills
Libraries, Museums Receive $1.2 Million in IMLS Grants to Build Teen Learning Labs
School Librarian Hosts Tutorial on Ebooks
Gifts for the Library: Choice gadgets for ramping up service in 2012
School Librarians’ Role in ‘Crap Detection’ Cited
‘Tis the season for lists (and I love it!) NeverEndingSearch
Curation, the musical! NeverEndingSearch
Curation is the new search tool NeverEndingSearch
A few good scoops for us NeverEndingSearch
Ready to Go Mobile?: It’s time for schools to leverage student devices
Ebook Collections: Two Stories
ISTE 2011: Put On Your ‘Big Girl Panties’
Librarian Creates Guide to the Common Core Standards
Two for the Road: A pair of librarians take their collaboration into the summer to keep kids reading
Kidlit World Says: “It Gets Better”
SLJ’s 2011 Technology Survey: Things Are Changing. Fast.
Manicured and ready at an ISTE 2011 session. Photo by Diane Cordell
Information/media literacy
Keep Good Searches from Going Bad
Librarians Turn Wikipedia Blackout into Teachable Moment
Facebook & admissions & e-reputations NeverEndingSearch
Share with school leaders: Douglas Reeves video NeverEndingSearch
The Sony Debacle: A Teachable Moment
Apps
YALSA App ‘First of Its Kind’ for Discovering Teen Books
“App Store” for Teachers: APPitic
Quixey and other app finding tools
Teacher-Made Apps. No Code Required.
Love technology, hate technology
YouTube for Schools Offers a Remedy–and Underscores Ongoing Filter Issues
AASL Conference 2011: Taking on Nicholas Carr
SLJ’s Top Ten 2011: Technology
Letters: For a technology user, a love of print endures
‘Siri, You’re Stupid’: Limitations of artificial intelligence baffle kids who expect more
Poor Kids Experience “App Gap,” Says Study
Is Tech Hurting Us? Meditation can help.
danah boyd Keeps Sexting Front and Center
Letters: Technology Overload Redux
Ebooks/Publishing
Apple Launches Textbooks, Digital Publishing Tools
Fine. I Got an Ereader. Now What? A newbie to digital reading gets his first Kindle
Apple Launches Textbooks, Digital Publishing Tools
Gluejar to Make Soft Launch of Website at ALA Midwinter
Google ebooks get “notable” NeverEndingSearch
Penguin’s Ebook Decision Has Chilling Effect on School Libraries
School Library Journal Reviews the Nook Simple Touch and the Kobo eReader Touch
Transmedia Trailblazers: SLJ Reviews Six Multiplatform Titles
Read Beyond the Lines: Transmedia has changed the very notion of books and reading
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit 2011: “Don’t Buy Ebooks”
LJ/SLJ Ebook Summit: More School Libraries Offer Ebooks; Increased Demand, Rise in Circulation
Web resources
YALSA Offers Video Training on Teen Services
Visual Storytelling Site Cowbird
The King Center Archive Goes Live! NeverEndingSearch
Cool Tools: Digital Aids for Staying Organized
Resource Pick: The Encyclopedia of Life
Fifty Ways to Leave Your Term Paper/Book Report & Tell Your Story NeverEndingSearch
Cool Tools: Visual presentations make it easier for students to tackle data and difficult text
Best Web Tools for Brainstorming
About Kathy Ishizuka
The amount of technology that we have should not be limited to the people innovating, but also the learning and educated children, who are going to be our leaders.