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Online Gaming Is More Popular than Facebook and YouTube

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Gaming Remains the Most Popular Online Entertainment Activity
“Playing games is still a more popular online activity in the U.S. than watching short video clips or visiting social networking websites, according to…

The Shifted Librarian » Beloit List for Librarians

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This year’s Beloit College Mindset List (for the class of 2011) came out yesterday. I love these lists because they point out to me how much things have changed since I was a teenager. I think of myself as being…

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Google Gears Had Me at Hello

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During the last two years, pretty much every aspect of my life has changed, with things only now just starting to settle down. For the first time during that window, I took a month off (August) and am not doing any…

Where’s the Library??

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A Kid’s-eye View of Laptop Design
“A group of kids from one of our local elementary schools has formed a ‘mini-laptop club.’ They don’t use electronic machines. Instead, these first-, second- and…

Teaching Information Literacy Is No Longer “Static and Predictable”

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A Personal Tour of Learning
“I’m not saying that my schooling was worthless, nor that there aren’t things that need to be taught. Absolutely not. I’m just saying that education’s job, in the 1950s and…