The Accelerated Reader (AR) Program has just been introduced to my K-12 school in the junior and middle school. I have been curious to read research about this program and it affects. I chose the following two research articles: Mallette, Marla H, et al. “The…
This week I have been learning about research paradigms. I think I am understanding everything I’m reading but I am a bit overwhelmed at the amount of new vocabulary! The one thing I am not really clear on is the impact of a researcher’s world view…
As a teacher with a variety of background experiences (McEwen, 2020, March 4) I thought I had a decent idea of what to expect when studying this Masters. However, my concepts of my future role of a teacher librarian (TL) (McEwen 2020, March 14) have expanded…
Two months ago I wrote a post about what I thought the role of the teacher librarian was. It’s amazing how much my ideas have expanded in this short amount of time! While doing research for an assignment I came across this video. It’s one…
I stumbled across this short (minute and half) video of Neil Gaiman speaking about the value of libraries and librarians at the same time I have been thinking about the changing information landscape. So much has changed since I was a student. Gaiman illustrates it…
So this post has been sitting in draft form in my dashboard for over a month now (we’re now 9 weeks in!) because it’s crazy times and I spent a few weeks racing to keep up with the evolving workload! I’ve debated deleting it as…
Over the long weekend, my family went camping with some lifelong friends from Melbourne. My friend and I stood on a little ridge of earth, warming our hands on steamy mugs of coffee while watching our kids frolic in the bush. ‘You’re studying what?! Why?…
How did I get here? The year was 1991. I sat in a public school in Indiana (USA) taking a “test” that asked us questions about our personalities, interests, things we were good at, etc. We scribbled in the corresponding bubbles on our answer sheets…
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