“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Featured Web Sources
Project Look Sharp is a Media Literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels.
Instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard, plus audio and photos, and even indepth lesson plans.
Encyclopedia of Education (8 Volumes)
Provides a complete view of the institutions, people, processes, roles, and philosophies in educational practice and biographies of influential educators; profiles of historic colleges and universities and of organizations active in the field.
Contains an appendix of full text source documents, including education.
10 Top Ranked Journals on Education
Review of educational research
American educational research journal
Journal of educational psychology
International journal of computer-supported collaborative learning
Journal of the Learning Sciences
Reading research quarterly
Educational evaluation and policy analysis
The library provides access to these journals. The time coverage varies by title.
Information Literacy for Teacher Education
The quickly changing information and technology landscape requires increasingly sophisticated information literacy skills for the navigation, evaluation, and use of information.. Teachers play a key role in providing students with diverse opportunities to learn how to use information wisely. Those preparing to become pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade (PK-12) teachers require a comprehensive understanding of information literacy to guide their own knowledge creation activities that will ultimately affect their future students...Experiences in pre-service, graduate, and continuing education programs shape how teachers model and facilitate student learning in their own classrooms...
Information Literacy Standards for Teacher Education
World Education Encyclopedia (3 Volumes)
The 3-volume encyclopedia provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.