Category Archives: Education
Readers, in Spite of School by Donalyn Miller
A great post on Readers, in Spite of School by Donalyn Miller
That Was Then….



A great view of the change and evolution occurring in staffed school libraries in That Was Then….
Children in the machine: Lewis Hine’s photography and child labour reform
This great post from Europena shows some startling photographs of Children at work in the US.
I’m An ‘Eco’ Hoarder
Oh this great post on I’m An ‘Eco’ Hoarder made me think of the multiple bags of clothes I’m donating to the charity shop.
We’ve just gone through the expose of what has been happening to our recyclables here in Ballarat. Now I wonder how much of the clean recycles I put out, ends up as landfill.
Diversity in Children’s Books in 2018
Link to JPG & PDF files: Diversity in Children’s Books 2018 – Dropbox Folder
Full citation: Huyck, David and Sarah Park Dahlen. (2019 June 19). Diversity in Children’s Books 2018. sarahpark.com blog. Created in consultation with Edith Campbell, Molly Beth Griffin, K. T. Horning, Debbie Reese, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, and Madeline Tyner, with statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison: http://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/books/pcstats.asp. Retrieved from https://readingspark.wordpress.com/2019/06/19/picture-this-diversity-in-childrens-books-2018-infographic/.
Better Practices for Reporting on Extremists, Antagonists, and Manipulators Online




This is a long report, but I recommend you take the time out to read it.
Information Disorder: The Essential Glossary
Produced by Claire Wardle with research by: Grace Greason, Joe Kerwin, Nic Dias and published in July 2018 this is a useful tool for teaching information literacy.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “Learning to Read”
Engaging teens with reading
The National Library of New Zealand has an amazing array of tools that you can use to engage teens with reading. Please explore their website here, if you’re an Educator, Librarian, Parent or interested in helping our next generations become literate.
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