Hello all, I hope your first full month of the year went well. See below for some resource updates and some food for thought articles if you’re of the inclination. Thank you for your enthusiasm for Banned Books Week! The displays will remain for another week before our October horror displays replace them. Happy Fall! - Nikki
Usage
The Library is off to a running start this year thanks to promotions from Student Council and the Ninth Grade Service Learning research portion, clocking in with about 150 print check-outs and 160 database articles. (Check the Wiki “About the Library” spot for more specifics.) Usage is typically modest the first month of the year and statistics don’t reflect the sheer number of students who use library facilities during the day (ask Khara!)—but we still fared well against last September, thanks to the English department’s quiet reading program and some service learning research by the ninth graders.
Ninth Graders will hopefully receive their library orientation by the end of October. Let me know if you would like to schedule library time or if you’d like me to introduce any resources to your students, whether during class or after school individually. In non-academic news, this month the library hosts a Head of School luncheon and the PSAT test.
New Additions to the Print-Collection
Our first order of the year has gone through, and it contained requested resources for Chinese language, Spanish research projects, and Visual Arts, as well as replacements for last year’s lost texts. Stay tuned for actual lists next edition, or check out http://library.sagehillschool.org > Catalog > Resource Lists (on the left) > Public Lists (on the right) for books as they’re cataloged.
“Opposing Viewpoints in Context” is a living database inspired by the successful Opposing Viewpoints print series. Far from just a data archive, it aggregates news media content as well as opinion essays for educational research. Due to the popular circulation in our print-library of this series and several research projects that delve into opinion essays and contemporary controversies, I hope this database sees a lot of use! It’s already been popular with Mr. Rice’s Psychology classes this month.
Recent News & Articles in Education and Reading
You may need to click through from the Electronic Library to read some of these, especially if you're not on campus. Click here for directions.
Google News Search for recent articles in "Education": Click here.
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
" Learning is not simply the acquisition of knowledge through a trial-and-error process; it occurs through certain forms of social coparticipation, is contextual, and is embedded within a social and physical environment (Kerno, 2008)..."
Bloomberg Businessweek
"The University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business took the top spot on Bloomberg BusinessWeek's 2010 ranking of the nation's best undergraduate business programs, a first for the school."
PC-Mag
"One might first have to define what actually constitutes reading, though. A quarter of kids surveyed by publishing company Scholastic considered texting back and forth with friends reading, while 28 percent of kids said the same about going through Facebook posts."
PC-Mag
"'Less predictable comments: Users felt that reading the printed book was more relaxing than using electronic devices. And they felt uncomfortable with the PC because it reminded them of work,'..."
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
"Through collaborative interaction and participation, the contributions of all progressively enhance the [...] usefulness of the affinity space..."
Reading Research Quarterly
"...change also has to entail a moral shift, a willingness to open oneself up to the possibility of seeing those who differ from us. This is very hard work, but work that lies at the heart of teaching."
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