| Presenter: | Doug Valentine |
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| Title: | Library 2.0: Surviving in a digital world |
| Description: | As education changes the school library must change as well. The library can no longer be only a place where students find information. Now they must also be taught the correct way to evaluate and use it. Digital Natives also have a different learning style. The library today must face those challenges in a creative and meaningful way. Here are a few ideas we were successful with this year in my library. |
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| Education Level: | PK-8 |
| Content Themes: | School Improvement, 21st Century Teaching & Learning |
| Curricular Areas: | Interdisciplinary |
| Story decade: | 1999-2009, Future |
| Story relates to: | Educational transformation, Other |
| Meta Tags: | loopy,library,animation,reviews,digital |
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