The Librarians Airs on PBS Starting Feb 9th. You Should Watch! What this film gets right about censorship and the people living it

The Librarians airs on PBS Feb 9.

This film is personal. Many of the librarians featured are friends and mentors. Their stories show what censorship and defamation really look like in schools and communities.

Worth watching. Worth sharing.
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The Problem is Not AI Its the False Binary We Librarians Keep Reinforcing

The “for or against AI” framing in librarianship is a false choice.

Avoiding the conversation doesn’t protect students. It leaves them unprepared.

Libraries have never opted out of powerful technologies. We teach discernment. #TLSky #EduSkyAi

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The End of the CIA World Factbook What the loss of a free global reference tool means for students, libraries, and research equity

The CIA World Factbook quietly ended in 2026.

Students relied on it. Libraries relied on it.
Especially schools without database access.

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AI Book Flagging in Schools and Libraries, and Why I Need Your Help Help document how AI is shaping book review and selection in today’s libraries.

I am hearing that some admins are using AI tools to flag “questionable” books. I want to understand how widespread this is. Please take and/or share the survey #TLSky #AIEdu #librarysky #library open.substack.com/pub/aischool...

The Quiet Collapse of Information Access How disappearing federal support, shrinking databases, and uneven digitization limit what students and AI can access.

New post today. When public information changes or books disappear from shelves, the gaps show up in AI tools. I explain how this affects students and share ready-to-use lessons for elementary and secondary classrooms. #aied #ai #TLSky open.substack.com/pub/aischool...

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📣 Special Edition: Broadband, Equity & AI—Why the Loss of Federal Funding Is a Crisis for Education and Libraries Who gets access to AI—and who gets left behind?

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Catching Up with AI

About a quarter of U.S. teens have used ChatGPT for schoolwork – double the share in 2023 (Source: Pew Research) I suspect poor students use AI to catch up to affluent kids. Is that accurate? Not exactly. Read the full report over at Pew Research. A few graphs that caught my…

Opinion | Let Students Finish the Whole Book. It Could Change Their Lives. Had they merely read the summary, my students would have seen many of the same words, but they’d have lacked the feeling part.

“literacy involves more than the scraps and fragments of mediated experiences. And reading, in particular, is an important exercise in inferiority, an insistence on listening to something without imposing your own design on it” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

Oh no! I just love this man.

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence The AI Story for Education

YCEI uses AI to promote emotional intelligence. How will you integrate this into your curriculum? #Education #AIEDU

2025 Sundance - "The Librarians" Documentary Film Premiere YouTube video by Breezeway

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We need to talk about the link of higher literacy rates to access to a certified, qualified school librarian in every school. Let’s spread the information
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

American Scientific enterprise is under attack.

~Former #NIH Director & Nobel Prize Laureate, Dr. Harold #Varmus, speaks on the impact of NIH budget cuts.

~Every American should read this.

#academicresearch #research
#EduSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #trump #science #medicine #doge

Indiana Freadom to Read Working to ensure all Hoosiers have the freedom to read and a right to equitable access to information.

For any Hoosiers that want to stay informed about book challenges, intellectual freedom, etc. infreadomtoread.org/get-involved #tlskychat #intellectualfreedom #bannedbooks

AI and Libraries: Literacy, Ethics, and Responsible Use Library 2.0 is a social network

This looks like an amazing free conference for librarians ans educators #AiEd #EduSkyAi #TLSky #EduSky www.library20.com/ai-and-libra...

7 Learning Myths Your Students Probably Believe From left- and right-brain thinking to the notion that talent beats persistence, these common myths can hinder student learning. Here’s how teachers can help.

Does talent beat persistence? Nope.

Is intelligence a fixed quality? Nope.

But common myths like these can really hinder students’ learning! Here’s how to steer them toward a more accurate understanding of how our brains *actually* work. 🧠

#EduSky #EdResearch

I love that UEN has started to develop this toolkit for educators, which includes their HUMAN framework, links to research, and a self-paced course for them to learn more.

When teachers learn, students benefit.

#AIinEdu #ProfessionalLearning #EduSky

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Grounding Math Lessons in Picture Books Starting lessons with a read-aloud can boost engagement and inspire students to make personal connections to math concepts.

Picture books aren’t just helpful in an English language arts setting—they work well in math, too! 📙📏

Check out these book recs and strategies to boost creativity and engagement:

#ElementaryTeacher #EarlyChildhoodEducation #MathSky

I agree 100%. I used to do the same for my students in middle school. TPR, that's the way to teach languages.

Leveraging AI to Support Student Mental Health and Well-Being The AI Story for Education

Are you ready for AI in your classroom? AI tools like Wysa and Woebot are revolutionizing student mental health support. How will this impact your teaching? #Education #AIEDU

You are a better writer than AI. (Yes, you.) YouTube video by josh (The Nukes)

This is pretty long, but well worth your time as an exercise in showing why writing and syntax generation are not the same thing and why we must continue to encourage students to write. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5wL...

KY School librarians, check this out #KyLChat #KyLibraries

google looker studio screenshot of a school library infographic/dashboard, with metrics on things like student visits, teacher collaboration, etc.

Interested in Google Looker Studio? Join me tonight on this ISTE webinar. 7:00 PM Eastern

So many uses for this fun data visualization tool! iste.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #KyLChat #TLsky #eduSKY

Grassroots PD: School Librarians Create Their Own Professional Development Here’s how school librarians are finding innovative ways to bring peers together, share resources, and create community, one PD session at a time.

Honored to have the Ai School Librarians Newsletter & some of my other PD work featured in this SLJ article. #TLSky #EduSky #AiEd #EduSkyAi
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Question: What Do You Do When a Lesson Flops? Our community is building a list of strategies. How do you respond when a lesson flops?

In a time where most online comment sections are dumpster fires, I'm proud of the culture we're building in the @edutopia.org comments! (We recently reopened them after some time without). This is a great example: teachers sharing what works when a lesson flops: www.edutopia.org/article/ques...

Amazing book!

What the hell! This is grasping at everything. Ultimate power. People have elected an autocrat. The death of the US.....

“Snowy Day and Other Stories” by Lee Chang-dong For fans of Korean film, the uncompromising film director Lee Chang-dong needs little introductions. With a brief but powerful filmography of six films made between 1997 and 2018, he has braved con…

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