Pew Study Shows Teens’ Social Media Use Rising, Race Affects Habits
Teenagers are revealing more about themselves on social media than ever before, but they’re also taking more steps to protect their privacy online, according to “Teens, Social Media, and Privacy,” a...
View ArticleAmazon Expands Content on Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, Subscription Service...
Amazon Kindle’s FreeTime Unlimited, a subscription service geared for parents, has added 1,000 books, games, educational apps, movies, and TV shows to its offerings for children since its launch six...
View ArticleLibrarian/Teacher Projects on New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, Energy Conservation...
Left to right: Earth Pals collaborators Gretchen Welk, Matthew Winner, and Sherry Gick, and friend Nick Provenzano (aka The Nerdy Teacher). An exploration of New Orleans’s hurricane-ravaged Ninth...
View ArticleALA Launches Online Hub to Support Tech Literacy
The American Library Association (ALA) this week launched a preview version of Digital Learn, a free online resource for librarians working with digital literacy learners. The new hub, which will be...
View ArticleWith Tighter COPPA Regulations, Librarians See Hurdles to Kids’ Internet Use
New rules take effect this month intended to protect kids’ privacy online, and some librarians are worried. Some say that the more stringent regulations may impede mobile app use in elementary...
View ArticleFlipping the Library: Tips from Three Pros | The Digital Shift 2013
Through the use of innovative technologies and online resources, school libraries can now be available to students wherever—and whenever—they need them. “Flipped” or blended learning offers students...
View ArticleMozilla Promotes ‘Web Competency’ with New Standards
The Mozilla Foundation has launched a new Web Literacy Standard intended to serve as a roadmap for competent Web use and comprising “the skills and competencies people need to read, write, and...
View ArticleOverDrive Offers School Libraries New Options for Searching, Catalog Access,...
OverDrive has announced upgrades to its digital service for school libraries, with a choice of thematic visual screen settings, more deft searching tools, a new book recommendation system, and social...
View ArticleOverDrive Rolls Out “Netflix-like” Streaming Video Pilot for Libraries and...
OverDrive streaming video offerings on LAPL’s site. OverDrive announced a new streaming video lending service now available at the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) and rolling out at more pilot...
View ArticleCurriculet—formerly Gobstopper—Partners with HarperCollins to offer Enriched...
Curriculet (previously Gobstopper), a digital reading platform designed for teachers and stocked with interactive educational and social media features, has teamed up with HarperCollins to offer a...
View ArticleCreature Feature: Fanciful Characters Drove this Transmedia Story
Gügor, before and after.Images courtesy of Framestore In an ambitious foray into transmedia, Razorbill, a Penguin imprint, has teamed with special effects company Framestore to produce The Creature...
View ArticleCIPA at 10: Internet Filtering Excessive, Study Finds | ALA Midwinter Meeting
Helen Adams, Kirsten Batch, Martin Garnar, and Christopher Harrisduring the ALA Midwinter panel on the state of CIPA. A decade after the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) went into effect,...
View ArticleIf Net Neutrality Disappears, How Will Services to Kids be Impacted?
Like most people I’d never hear of the term [‘net neutrality’] before a few weeks ago,” says American Association of School Libraries president Gail Dickinson. “It’s a protection we enjoyed.” Without...
View ArticleALA Report Confirms Negative Impact of Filtering on Student Learning
Internet filtering in schools and libraries is excessive and limits student learning, hurting low-income kids the most, according to a new report from the American Library Association (ALA). “Fencing...
View ArticleEducator Spotlight: Renee Hobbs, Director of URI’s Media Education Lab
“Libraries, film, media, families, and the theme of making libraries the nexus of civic life.” Those are just some of the things that drive the research of Renee Hobbs, internationally recognized...
View ArticleAnil Dash Keynote Rallies Librarians to Demand a Web for the People | TDS14
A stream of #TDS14 tweets from revved-up librarians accompanied the closing keynote speech by Anil Dash, a blogger, entrepreneur, and cofounder and CEO of ThinkUp, during The Digital Shift: Libraries @...
View ArticleNicole Mirra and Antero Garcia on Connected Learning, Civic Engagement | TDS14
In a tag-team presentation about connected learning during LJ and SLJ’s virtual event, The Digital Shift: Libraries @ the Center, held October 1, academics Nicole Mirra and Antero Garcia described...
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