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Developing Blended Learning In Library Instruction To Cultivate Research And Critical Thinking Skills In The Undergraduate Student Population, Bernadette López-Fitzsimmons

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

The ever-evolving digital resources in multiple types and formats have introduced numerous opportunities for enhanced teaching-and-learning environments focused on student–driven activities. Many of these strategies have already been implemented at educational institutions throughout the world.

This presentation will demonstrate how blended learning pedagogies in a library’s one-shot and for-credit courses cultivate research and critical thinking skills. The presenter will discuss how to customize library instruction for diverse student populations who have a complex history of multiple learning styles and varying literacy levels.

The presenter will describe several strategies that activate prior knowledge so that building new knowledge is seamlessly organic. …

Public Middle School English Teachers Using Lgbt Discriminatory District Curriculum “Multicultural” Guide, Ruben A. Caceres

South Florida Education Research Conference

This paper is part of a dissertation in progress exploring why despite increased LGBT visibility and the legalization of gay marriage, in many U.S classrooms, LGBT students are not provided the same level of representation in the English language arts curriculum that other oppressed groups enjoy.