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TTK: Emotions and learning

Most of us have figured out that students’ emotions affect how well or poorly they learn.  Good tutors tend to focus on those emotions and help students move from negative mind sets to positive ones, from feelings of failure to

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TTK: Curating as Trailblazing

How good are you at curating? Cathy Evans, Dorcas Hand, Robyn Martin, and David Wee wrote this highly informative article for Independent Schools the journal of the National Association of Independent Schools, describing curating as Trailblazing. It’s worth paying attention

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TTK: Helping Students Become Global Citizens… with poetry

As a 21st century school librarian you want projects to guide your students into becoming global and digital citizens.  Here is a poetry project that’s already up and running and will connect your students to others from around the world

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TTK: Computational Thinking

Librarians, Check out Annie Murphy Paul’s post about COMPUTATIONAL THINKING.  It’s got some terrific insights. We spend a lot of time trying to make computers think like humans, but as Annie Murphy Paul suggests, it’s also important for us to

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TTK: Things To Know

Yes, this is a new feature on THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN’S WORKSHOP page.  We want you to stay informed of interesting articles around the web, so if you see a post with the TTK opening…  it’s a quick post with a

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