Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm - Freedom to Learn

from Freedom to Learn https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201505/early-academic-training-produces-long-term-harm

Many preschool and kindergarten teachers are extremely upset by the increased pressure to teach literary and numerical skills to little children and test them regularly. They can see firsthand the unhappiness generated, and they suspect that the children would be learning much more useful lessons by playing. Their suspicions are well validated by research studies.

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Choose Privacy Week Brief: Tell Congress to Support Real Privacy and Surveillance Law Reform - Choose Privacy Week

from Choose Privacy Week https://chooseprivacyweek.org/choose-privacy-week-brief-tell-congress-to-support-real-privacy-and-surveillance-law-reform/
The time is long past for Section 215 to be meaningfully reformed to restore the civil liberties massively and unjustifiably compromised by the USA PATRIOT Act. ~~ALA President Courtney Young  Very nearly from the day the USA PATRIOT Act was signed into law in 2001, librarians raised concerns about the scope of surveillance authorized under […]

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Do We Really Need Libraries? - News

from News http://www.npr.org/blogs/npr-history-dept/2015/05/05/403529103/do-we-really-need-libraries?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=news
Between 1886 and 1919, Andrew Carnegie planted nearly 1,700 libraries across America. Over the years they grew. Now they are trying to survive.

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Library of the future: 7 technologies we would love to see

Library of the future: 7 technologies we would love to see:



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Carol Burris: Why The Opt Out Movement is Terrifying Our Leaders - Diane Ravitch's blog

from Diane Ravitch's blog http://dianeravitch.net/2015/05/05/carol-burris-why-the-opt-out-movement-is-terrifying-our-leaders/
Carol Burris, a leader in the Opt Out movement in New York and a respected high school principal, explains here who is responsible for the mass opting out in New York State and why the movement is not going away.   The State Education Department has thus far refused to release official numbers for opt […]

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Choose Privacy Week 2015: What You Should Know About “Anonymous” Aggregate Data About You - Choose Privacy Week

from Choose Privacy Week https://chooseprivacyweek.org/choose-privacy-week-2015-what-you-should-know-about-anonymous-aggregate-data-about-you/
By Gretchen McCord Today more than ever, we appreciate that raw data has great financial value. The owners of websites, social media tools, and cell phone applications make billions of dollars annually on “targeted,” or “behavioral,” advertising. They attempt to ensure us that although they collect, share, and use data about us in countless ways, […]

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3-D Printing: Worth the Hype? | The Maker Issue - School Library Journal

from School Library Journal http://www.slj.com/2015/05/technology/3-d-printing-worth-the-hype-the-maker-issue/
What is 3-D printing exactly, and how does it serve kids? Here’s a walk-through.

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