Galway Jr./Sr. High Library
What's new?
Computers, computers, computers . . .
The library computer lab has been a hot bed of test taking!!! Don't forget about all the really great databases we subscribe to that could help out in many of your current topics! If you are unsure what we have that could help you, ask me!
Come in and check out some of our new titles!!
If you do not see a title you like but know of one or two you'd love to see added to our collection, please let me know!!
The Search Engine List
Scroll through and find out that there are other options out there other than GOOGLE!!!
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
Audio and ebooks available . . .
We have a growing collection of audio books and ebooks that can be downloaded to your device. Email me or come down and talk to me about how to access them!
Common Core . . .
Self-assessment . . .
Here are some questions I received at a conference this month that will help guide your next assignment to some higher level thinking.
1. Is my assignment answerable on Google?
2. Have I embedded an opportunity for students to "synthesize" facts found and make meaning? (Create, invent, compose, predict, plan, construct, design, modify, elaborate, change, adopt, support, produce, . . . what if, should, etc.)
3. Have I allowed students to find resources for themselves (teaching them to assess credibility, accuracy, bias, timeliness, reliability of the resource?)
4. What are your students going to have to do with all those facts?
1. Is my assignment answerable on Google?
- a. Can I rephrase the question with an Essential Question, which is not answerable
2. Have I embedded an opportunity for students to "synthesize" facts found and make meaning? (Create, invent, compose, predict, plan, construct, design, modify, elaborate, change, adopt, support, produce, . . . what if, should, etc.)
3. Have I allowed students to find resources for themselves (teaching them to assess credibility, accuracy, bias, timeliness, reliability of the resource?)
4. What are your students going to have to do with all those facts?
Amy Derwin, School Library Media Specialist
Email: aederwin@galwaycsd.org
Website: http://gah.wswhe.opalsinfo.net/bin/home
Location: 5317 Sacandaga Rd, Galway, NY, United States
Phone: (518)882-1221 3251