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Do schools still need librarians?

by Steve on 11, February, 2010

I might really be about to step in it here but here goes ….
Do we really need school librarians anymore?
In an age where hours of research in old, dusty, musty archival stacks has been replaced by research anywhere, anytime, about anything from a computer or even your phone is the librarian a dying breed?
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How cool is this?
The world’s longest married couple (104 & 102 year old – Herbert & Zelmyra Fisher) will be answering your romance questions on Valentine’s Day on TWITTER (and you thought you were too old to get into that Twitter thing).
Interested in checking it out?  Follow them on Twitter at @longestmarried

The couple, who enjoy [...]

Ben Heywood  from PatientsLikeMe.com joined us this morning for a far reaching interview that covered ALS (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), his brother Stephen’s struggle with the disease which ultimately lead to the creation of the outcome based patient data website www.PatientsLikeMe.com and in a larger sense what REAL health care reform looks like.
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You’ve probably heard a lot about the study that came out recently about the amount of time that kids 8-18 are consuming electronic media.  I’m reading the full study now and will probably comment on it later but wanted to share this PDF summary presentation from the study.  Interesting stuff (especially if like me,  you [...]

Tech To The Rescue

by Steve on 20, January, 2010

You can see the commercials now …… stuck in the rubble? There’s an app for that …. literally.
This guy’s iPhone saved his life in the Haiti earthquake but not the way you’d expect.
There’s also a touching moment in the video when he discusses part of what was going through his mind as he was trapped.
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On the “My Great Kid” Radio show we had a great interview with Leslie Poston, social media expert and co-author of “Twitter For Dummies”. Leslie not only shared a lot with us about Twitter but also a ton about “social media” in general and what it means both for us as parents but also [...]

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