Scholastic recently chose to censor a book (or more accurately ask an author to alter her book-which is a form of censorship) because one of the characters, wait for it . . . has, gasp, “two mommies.” The School Library Journal has the background story. Normally I would stop at passing this article around and [...]
Yesterday @SybilV posted a comment via Twitter during a library orientation for her class:
An innocent enough of a gesture one could assume. What I took Sybil’s point to be, was that Britannica is not a good scholarly source, and that the library should be encouraging other/more appropriate research practices (like, you know using scholarly sources, [...]
Tech should make teaching easier and more effective, not harder and more frustrating.
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