Books & Bytes
FDHS Library News Volume 1 Issue 15
Announcements
- The next Student Reading Club will meet on Friday, December 11
- We will possibly offer a staff book club (reading fiction or nonfiction YA titles for PD) beginning in January. Let me know if you're interested in this. It would meet once a month after school.
Tech Tidbit: Online Research Skills Students Need (from Scholastic)
Scholastic has some great tips for helping students become better researchers!
- Check the source - Kids are smart generally smart enough to know that they can't believe everything they read online but that doesn't mean that they take the time to evaluate their sources either! Discuss as a class how to evaluate a resource using something like the C.R.A.P. test!
- Ask good questions - This really means creating better search terms so that students don't have to wade through the MILLIONS of resources out there online. Discuss with students how to create better search terms. Create a lesson that looks at just how many hits you get with those generic terms!
- Dig deeper - Students often stop with the first search engine result, deeming it the best. Find ways to encourage students to compile data from multiple sources. You may have to set specific requirements for this at first, such as requiring 10 different sources.
- Patience - Students today live in a world of on-demand information. Help guide students to do better research by looking through data on questions that aren't "Google-able." (Opinion questions work well for this!)
- Respect ownership - Piracy and plagiarism seems to become more and more common all the time. Make a lesson on this personal somehow so that they can start to connect the dots. How would it feel not to get paid for, say, office work?
- Use your networks - Talk to students about the positive ways that social media networks could be used for research. Are you looking into your family's history? Are you conducting surveys about popular culture? Are you researching opinions about current events?
From Tech Services...
Technology Services leadership shared a document with district leadership about technology discipline that I thought I would share with you all! (I, of course, changed it into this pretty little infographic.)
Featured Books: YA Choice Titles
Stonewall: breaking out in the fight for gay rights
Ann Bausum's riveting exploration of the Stonewall Riots and the national Gay Rights movement that followed is eye-opening, unflinching, and inspiring
Symphony for the City of the Dead
An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.
Please Excuse This Poem: 100 poets for the next generation
An anthology of poems by young, award-winning, up-and-coming writers reflects a diverse range of voices, styles, and backgrounds.
YA Choice!
Remember - students have the opportunity to vote on YA Choice titles to help choose which books appear on a nationally recognized list of the best books for teens! We desperately need teens to read these books and there are so many that I can honestly say that there is something here for everyone!
Trivia!
What musical made its world premiere in October 1986, at 57 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4QL?
*Know the answer? Come to the Media Center to claim a prize. :)
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