Archive for the '21st Century Skills' Category
Dec
5
Your Digital Footprint
December 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment
All 9th grade students will explore their Digital Footprint in their Guidance Seminars this week. @yourlibrary Digital Citizenship Resources How to Set Up Your Facebook Privacy Settings 10 Things High School Students Should Never Post of Facebook (or any other social media sites) A Complete Guide to web, Facebook, Twitter, and Google Plus privacy and [...]
Nov
1
Who are our 9th graders?
November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
The current 9th graders (266 out of 339) , when scheduled for their first class in the library in the Fall, took an online survey the survey said: 88% of students have an Internet connected computer at home. 79% reported that the computer was 3 years old or newer. 89% of the students have a [...]
Dec
14
Not Your Mother’s… Not Your Father’s… Card Catalog
December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Our “library catalogs” have been upgraded to a new web-based solution, called Destiny – see http://destiny.k12.waltham.ma.us/ . Destiny is a 21st Century solution – where the students and staff no longer need to be in the school library to access the resources of the library. The public interface of Destiny (or Destiny Quest) displays The [...]
Oct
4
MSLA Conference: Working Smarter
October 4, 2010 | 1 Comment
Waltham Library Teachers attended the yearly MSLA conference on October 3rd and 4th. At the conference it was announced that the Plympton School Library program (Judi Paradis, Library Teacher), has been selected as 1 of the top 50 school library programs in nation and will be on the AASL President’s Vision Tour later this school [...]
Apr
27
Bentley University Student Services and Cluster Challenge
April 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Today Bentley University recognized their students in the Student Services Program. A SHOUT OUT to Gregg Grenier who was a Project Manager for the Cluster 2.0 program where Bentley students coordinated efforts with Kennedy Middle School and McDevitt Middle School to provide teachers with additional support and resources to help them embedded new Web 2.0 [...]
Mar
11
Technology Leadership Symposium
March 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Today a team of high school teachers attended the MassCUE 2010 Technology Leadership Symposium. Prior to attending the conference the teachers read the book 21st Century Skills, Learning for the Life in our Time by Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel, and viewed exemplars of student learning in 21st century classrooms. The book is available in [...]
