The Alliance for Excellent Education is planning a high-profile national Digital Learning Day celebration on February 5, 2014 in Washington, DC. The day-long series of activities is the hottest ticket in town; it’s jam-packed with high-profile dignitaries, policymakers, and educational leaders who are passionate about the potential for digital learning in the nation’s public schools. […]
Read moreVolume 30, Number 1-2 / 2013 of Education for Information is now available on the iospress.metapress.com website at http://iospress.metapress.com/content/wh6615445r17. This issue contains: “The impact on education for librarianship and information studies of the Bologna Process and related European Commission programmes — and some outstanding issues in Europe and beyond.” By Ian M. Johnson. DOI: 10.3233/EFI-130933
Read moreOctober is International School Library Month. Please visit the event site http://www.iasl-online.org/events/islm/ to download the poster, bookmarks and a host of other resources that have been prepared to help you celebrate this year’s event. It’s still not too late to register for the Bookmark Exchange Project or to register for a Skype exchange. You can […]
Read moreOn October 18, 2013, in New York City, authors and illustrators will be honored with Jane Addams Children’s book Awards. This year the ceremony also celebrates the publication of The Jane Addams Children’s Book Award: Honoring Children’s Literature for Peace and Social Justice since 1953 (Scarecrow Press, 2013), a book about the Addams Award written […]
Read moreFirst Winners of Library of Congress Literacy Award Winners Announced Reach Out and Read, 826 National and PlanetRead Receive Prizes. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has chosen the winners of the 2013 Library of Congress Literacy Awards, a new program originated and sponsored by philanthropist David M. Rubenstein. The recipients are: David M. Rubenstein […]
Read moreThe following information which was published in the Dutch newspaper Trouw on 17 September 2013 http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4492/Nederland/article/detail/3511258/2013/09/17/School-Zweden-mag-Google-cloud-niet-gebruiken.dhtml may be of great interest to some of you: English text: A judge in Sweden has decreed that a school in Sweden may not store data in Google Cloud Sweden’s Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen) has told a Stockholm school […]
Read moreThe first ever Global STEMx Education Conference starts this Thursday, and it’s going to be AWESOME. We have 178 accepted practitioner sessions on science, technology, engineering, math, and more; as well as sixteen terrific keynotes; all starting 24 hours a day at 11am US Pacific Time Thursday. Don’t miss out–all sessions are free, and all […]
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