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Tablets for Schools

News Corp. Has a Tablet for Schools

 

By AMY CHOZICK

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times

..."Joel Klein, a former New York City schools chancellor, leads a unit of News Corporation that makes this tablet for education.

On Wednesday at the SXSWedu conference in Austin, Tex., Mr. Klein, the former chancellor of New York City schools and the current chief executive of Amplify, News Corporation’s fledgling education division, will take the stage for a surprising announcement. Amplify will not sell just its curriculum on existing tablets, but will also offer the Amplify Tablet, its own 10-inch Android tablet for K-12 schoolchildren.

In addition to tablets and curriculum, Amplify will also provide schools with infrastructure to store students’ data.

“When I left I was convinced of two things,” Mr. Klein said of his tenure as chancellor of New York schools. “If we didn’t see a dramatic technological change, we were not going to be able to move this country forward,” and “second of all, that the private sector had to get much, much more involved.” "...

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Check In @ Your Library--Teen Tech Week, March 10-16

 

"NEWS
For Immediate Release
March 5, 2013
Contact: Jaclyn Finneke

Libraries key destination for teens to gain 21st century skills

Check in @ your library

CHICAGO— Multiple studies show that, while young people are adept at downloading music, or texting with their friends, the majority lack the digital literacy skills needed to evaluate the quality and accuracy of information they find online.
Libraries from coast to coast will throw open their physical and virtual doors to teens and showcase technological resources available @ your library during Teen Tech Week™, March 10 - 16. Thousands of public and school libraries will host special programs and events that showcase digital media resources, including online homework help, using databases for research and study, test and career preparation materials, e-books and much more.
This year’s Teen Tech Week theme is Check in @ your library, and teens will work with librarians to create their own unique Web and technological content as well as to learn how to become competent and ethical users of technology.
“Technology plays an important role in teen life and our global economy,” said Young Adult Library Services Association President Jack Martin. “That is why libraries across the country are helping teens build critical digital literacy skills, which they can use to obtain scholarships; master online research tools such as databases; manage their online profiles; and have the analytical tools needed to compete in a 21st century marketplace.”
According to the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Online Survey of Teachers, although the Internet has opened up a vast world of information for today’s students, their digital literacy skills have yet to catch up. Twenty-four percent of those surveyed stated that students lack the ability to assess the quality and accuracy of information they find online. Another 33 percent reported that students lacked the ability to recognize bias in online content.
During the week libraries will offer teens a variety of ways to build skills and explore their interests through digital resources. For example the Domonkas Branch Library, in Lorain, Ohio will host Search Engine Battles. Teens will investigate ridiculous autofill phrases that search engines provide. The teens that find the most hilarious autofill answers will win a chance to enter a drawing for special prizes.
Teens will learn about the history of technology through such programs as the Fort Bend County (Texas) Libraries’ “Old-School Tech” technology petting-zoo. The library will display a variety of technology gadgets, telephones, gaming systems and computer parts that led to the technologies of today.
Some libraries will offer reverse mentoring programs. For example the Wayne (N.J.) Public Library will offer a Tech-help from Teens program. Adults can visit the library with their devices and receive tech help from members of the library’s Teen Advisory Group, local Honor Society and other tech-savvy teens.
The Los Angeles Public Library will host more than 10 Teen Tech Week programs that introduce teens to robotics, gaming and chipthrash artists.
Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association and is aimed at teens, their parents, educators and other concerned adults. The purpose of the initiative is to ensure that teens gain the digital literacy skills they need—with the help of libraries—in order to be successful in school and prepared to participate in a 21st century workforce.
For more than 50 years, YALSA has worked to build the capacity of libraries and librarians to engage, serve and empower teens. For more information about YALSA or to access national guidelines and other resources go to www.ala.org/yalsa, or contact the YALSA office by phone, (800) 545-2433, ext. 4390, or e-mail, yalsa@ala.org. To learn more about Teen Tech Week, visit www.ala.org/teentechweek.
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979.8 FRE

Fremon, David K. The Alaska Purchase in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1999.
Traces the history of Alaska through the Russian exploration and settlement to the American purchase of the territory by William Seward in 1867, discussing key personalities and events during this period.

327.73 CLO

Cloud Tapper, Suzanne. America as a world power : from the Spanish-American War to today. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2006.
Remember the Maine! -- Dreams of American expansion -- American culture and immigration --America reaches out -- World War II -- The atomic age and Cold War -- Vietnam -- The Peace Corps and the environment -- Human rights and the end of the Cold War -- After the Cold War -- The Bush doctrine. Explores American foreign policy and the cultural, technological, and economic contributions America has made since the end of the nineteenth century.

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American decades. Detroit : Gale Research, c1996.
An exploration of American life from 1900 through 1909, looking at key people, events, and topics in the arts, business and the economy, education, fashion, government and politics, law, lifestyles and social trends, media, medicine and health, religion, science and technology, and sports.

REF 973.8 AME

American eras. New York : Gale Research, c1997.
Chronicles world events, business, arts, education, government, lifestyles, religion, science, and other aspects of life in the U.S. in the years between 1878 and 1899.

REF Ame

American heritage illustrated history of the United States. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett, 1989.
A nineteen volume history of the United States. Each volume explores and explains the political, social, economic, and cultural events that shaped America.

973.8 SMO

Smolinski, Diane, 1950-. Battles of the Spanish-American War. Chicago : Heinemann Library, c2003.
Examines key battles in the brief Spanish-American War, and includes battle maps, after action reports, and time lines.

972.87 BUI

Building the Panama Canal : chronicles from National Geographic. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, c1999.
Relates the history of how the Panama Canal was planned and built, including the political, economic, and health aspects of getting the project completed.

REF 980 Cam

The Cambridge encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; : Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Includes bibliographies and index. Discusses the region's past and present culture, society, history, economics, and politics.

951.06 CHI

China. Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2010.
A collection of essays that provides varying perspective on issues regarding China, debating if it is moving toward democracy, if it is committed to human rights, how it handles economic challenges, if its military is a threat, and if it is protecting the environment.

952 BLU

Blumberg, Rhoda. Commodore Perry in the land of the Shogun. New York : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c1985.
Details Commodore Matthew Perry's role in opening Japan's closed society to world trade in the 1850s, one of history's most significant diplomatic achievements.

327.73052 GAI

Gaines, Ann. Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade in world history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2000.
Traces the efforts of Commodore Matthew Perry to use force and diplomacy to end Japan's traditional isolationism and to begin trade with the Asian nation.

327.51 Law

Lawson, Don. The eagle and the dragon : the history of U.S.-China relations. 1st ed. New York : Crowell, c1985.
Traces the history of the relationship between the United States and China from the China trade in the eighteenth century to the reopening of official relations in the early 1970's.

REF 973.8 ENC

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2005.
Contains entries that provide information on notable people, events, ideas, organizations,and movements in the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from 1877 to 1920, arranged alphabetically from A to E, and includes an introduction to the period, and thematic essays.

REF 973.8 ENC

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2005.
Contains entries that provide information on notable people, events, ideas, organizations,and movements in the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from 1877 to 1920, arranged alphabetically from S to Z, and includes a selection of related documents.

REF 973.8 ENC

Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference, c2005.
Contains entries that provide information on notable people, events, ideas, organizations, and movements in the history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, from 1877 to 1920, arranged alphabetically from F to R.

REF 973.91 LIF

Life & times in 20th-century America. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Looks at how significant discoveries, inventions, and events affected the everday lives of Americans in the years between 1900 and 1920, discussing family life; education; social and political attitudes; work; religion; health, science, and technology; leisure, sports, and entertainment; and fashions and fads.

921 TWA

Aller, Susan Bivin. Mark Twain. Minneapolis : Lerner, c2001.
An illustrated biography of nineteenth-century American author Mark Twain.

921 Twa

Meltzer, Milton, 1915-. Mark Twain : a writer's life. New York : F. Watts, 1985.
Surveys the life of Samuel Clemens, who grew up in Missouri, was a river pilot on the Mississippi, became a journalist, and achieved fame as a writer under the pen name Mark Twain.

327.7307287 LIN

Lindop, Edmund. Panama and the United States : divided by the Canal. 1st ed. New York : Twenty-First Century Books, 1997.
Discusses foreign policy issues between the United States and Panama, specifically regarding the Canal.

386 MCN

McNeese, Tim. The Panama Canal. San Diego, Calif. : Lucent Books, c1997.
Describes the planning and building of the Panama Canal.

972.87 GAI

Gaines, Ann. The Panama Canal in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1999.
Examines the planning, building, and maintenance of the Panama Canal and its current status.

959.9 Top

Tope, Lily Rose R., 1955-. Philippines. Reference ed. New York : Marshall Cavendish, 1991.
An illustrated overview of the history, geography and culture of the Philippines and the people who inhabit these tropical islands.

973.8 MCN

McNeese, Tim. Remember the Maine! : the Spanish-American War begins. 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan Reynolds, c2002.
Discusses the explosion of the "U.S.S. Maine" in Havana harbor in February 1898, an event that provoked the United States to declare was on Spain.

973.8 DOL

Dolan, Edward F., 1924-. The Spanish-American War. Brookfield, CT : Millbrook Press, c2001.
Chronicles the events surrounding the Spanish-American War from the explosion of the "Maine" to the problems involving Cuba and the Philippines that followed the U.S.'s victory.

973.8 MCG

McGowen, Tom. The Spanish-American War and Teddy Roosevelt in American history. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2003.
Details the pivotal role that Teddy Roosevelt played during the Spanish-American War and the consequences of his involvement.

973.8 SOM

Somerlott, Robert. The Spanish-American War : "remember the Maine!" Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c2002.
Explosion in Havana -- "Remember the Maine" -- America's most popular war -- The Rough Riders -- The struggle for Cuba -- The naval battle of Santiago de Cuba -- Americans on the Spanish islands -- The new American empire. Examines the conflict between the United States and Spain which marked the end of the Spanish colonial empire and the rise of the United States as a world power.

921 Roo

Markham, Lois. Theodore Roosevelt. New York : Chelsea House, 1985.
A biography of the twenty-sixth President of the United States.

921 ROO

Schuman, Michael. Theodore Roosevelt. Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow, c1997.
Explores the life of the twenty-sixth president, from his childhood in New York, through his military career, to his years in the White House.

973.8 LAN

Langellier, J. Phillip. Uncle Sam's little wars : the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902. 1st Chelsea House hardback ed. Philadelphia : Chelsea House, 2002, c1999.
Describes the uniforms and equipment used in the U.S. Army between 1898 and 1902.

REF 973.8 SHI

Shifflett, Crandall A. Victorian America, 1876 to 1913. New York : Facts on File, c1996.
Examines American life from 1876 to 1913, providing information about the climate, natural history, geography, Native Americans, the economy, population, religion, government, cities, prominent people, education, culture, and crime during the Victorian era.