Marcia A. Mardis

The Collection's at the Core (eBook, ePUB)

Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Common Core standards, OER, STEM, and collection development-where to begin? This book investigates these critical topics together to give you the power to transform your collection and practice and put your school library at the center of STEM. Curricula that focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) areas of study aren't just important for furthering competency and careers in these fields; STEM helps ensure that future generations include inventive and critical thinkers. Digital resources offer a current, exciting direction to involve school librarians with their STEM teachers. With its specific focus on open digital multimedia learning resources, this book will enable school librarians to take advantage of this opportunity and evaluate, build, and maintain their STEM collections. The book comprises three sections: an overview of policy initiatives; a thorough exploration of STEM education policy, digital materials, and collection considerations; and detailed explanations of strategies for collection development and promotion. You'll learn how to perform a collection analysis to determine the age and extent of your STEM collections and make priorities for enriching them with appropriate digital multimedia resources as well as how to classify resources using Dewey and Sears and with regard to the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216062820
• Artikelnr.: 68347205

Autorenporträt

Marcia A. Mardis is a Professor at Florida State University's iSchool and Director of the Information Institute, USA. She is the author of The Collection's at the Core: Revitalize Your Library with Innovative Resources for the Common Core and STEM (2014), editor of Librarians and Educators Collaborating for Success: The International Perspective (2016), and co-editor of Social Justice and Cultural Competency: Essential Readings for School Librarians (with Dianne Oberg, 2019). She chaired and was the lead author of AASL's National School Library Standards.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: STEM Is Important to Librarians
Chapter 3: The Common Standards Movement Is Important for School Librarians
Chapter 4: Curation Part 1: Selecting and Describing STEM Digital Resources
Chapter 5: Curation Part 2: Managing and Promoting Your STEM OER Collection
Chapter 6: Summary and Conclusions: An Open Letter to School Librarians and
Science Educators
Appendix A: Starting Points for Locating Vetted K-12 STEM OER
Appendix B: K-12 STEM OER Collections with Downloadable Records Available
through NSDL
Appendix C: K-12 STEM OER Video Collections
Index