The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) is a national non-profit organization that works to make media literacy highly valued and widely practiced as an essential life skill in every school, library, community center, and home in our nation. They define media literacy as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and…

Social, professional, and learning networks have altered the way humans deal with the volume of information that bombards them daily. Traditionally, the library has served as a center of information in our schools. Because the availability and access to information has changed, many institutions, in both business and education, have chosen to…

When secondary school librarians teach students digital life literacies, they help students perceive that librarians can provide support for real-life problems. The more librarians work with students, create inviting library environments, and have positive engagements with students, the more they change student perceptions of librarians in…

Discusses the need for adolescents to be exposed to philosophy and encouraged to consider philosophical questions to further some of the primary tasks of adolescence, particularly self-understanding and definition. Recommends appropriate fiction, philosophy texts, and resources for teachers. (LRW)

Explains the use of rubrics which can provide students with the quality criteria, guidelines, or standards of evaluation connected to an assignment. Highlights include rubric characteristics; clearly stated expectations; steps for developing a rubric; and a list of resources on rubrics. (LRW)

Between 1897 and 1911, Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter Anne Fitzhugh Miller filled the pages of seven scrapbooks with artifacts that document the activities of the Geneva Political Equality Club and other items related to the suffrage movement. The scrapbooks are now a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection in…

This bibliography lists materials on school libraries, organized in the following sections: (1) Evidence that Quality School Library Media Programs Positively Affect Student Achievement; (2) Evidence and Arguments that Collaboration Pays Dividends; (3) Evidence and Arguments that Administrative Leadership Is Key in Developing Quality Library Media…

Provides a background of the National Science Foundation's NSDL (National Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Digital Library) which includes three tracks: collections, services, and targeted research. Discusses challenges and opportunities for elementary and secondary school library media specialists and teachers. (LRW)

Describes an exercise for helping students evaluate the veracity of primary documents, and considers two kinds of knowledge that documents can give about the past: information about events that occurred; and insight into the perceptions and thoughts of those who lived in the past, including those responsible for the document's creation. Discusses…

Discusses the Library of Congress's American Memory Historical Collections, primary sources, available at http://memory.loc.gov. Describes the American Memory Fellowship Program, a year-long professional development opportunity with two purposes: to have teachers, librarians and others create original teaching materials that draw upon American…