Kit Pearson, a Canadian award-winning author, visited our Grade 7 and 8 students today. Kit read from her new book “Be My Love” and took student questions. Did you know that her best-known book “The Sky Is Falling” makes reference to Branksome!?📚
Is Listening to a Book the Same Thing as Reading It? https://t.co/TTXGIvInq3 "Writing is less than 6,000 years old, insufficient time for the evolution of specialized mental processes devoted to reading. We use the mental mechanism that evolved to understand oral language..."
I echo your sentiments 100% @acampbell_rog ! My heartfelt thanks to everyone at @Cohort21 for their generosity, support, and inspiration! So grateful to be a part of this community! https://t.co/GwPtjCnEdr
24hrs later I am still on a #Cohort21 high! Thank you leaders, coaches & participants from the bottom of my heart - you have re-invigorated my practice, pushed my thinking & inspired my confidence in countless ways. Onwards! https://t.co/zwPZrlwTIB
Action Plan or Action-Plan? Here's my @Cohort21 blog post reflecting on where I am in my action-plan journey thus far! Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow :)
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Today we’re launching the 2018 #internethealth report. It's a detailed survey of what’s hurting 😞 and helping 😀 the internet, and how that impacts the *billions* of people who rely on it. You can read the report here: https://t.co/YokY13tYLf
My third #Cohort21 blog post is up: https://t.co/r7OM4ClltZ
tl;dr version: let's use the new @ALA_ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education in K-12 to teach information literacy through a spiral curriculum! @Cohort21#informationliteracy
Check out my @parlayideas RoundTable discussion lesson on officially changing the lyrics of "O Canada" from "all thy sons command" to "all of us command"! https://t.co/3WH6GWqlt9 … #Canada#Canadianhistory :) #Cohort21
"Personalized learning has become trendy recently, but we’ve always been about helping students immerse themselves in information..." Great article in @sljournal. @nbooksbank@lemthelibrarian@SachaNeesham | Advocate This, Not That! https://t.co/92grzxW2i1 | #Cohort21
Today's Hackathon @thehackergals is coming to an end but first there's lots of exciting brainstorming and problem solving going on as Grade 5, 7 and 8 students finish coding their stories and games! #girlswhocode#STEM
Heartfelt thanks to everyone who came out to the @CISOntario Librarians' Fall Meeting @branksomehall. @MsSarahCraig thank you for launching us into an energizing day of idea generation & sharing, for your support in planning, & for being with us all day. #cisopd