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Amanda Hovious

@hovious

Librarian. Instructional Designer. Educational Technologist. Blended, not stirred.

 Dallas-Fort Worth
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Joined August 2008
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As Hybrid Classrooms Take Flight, Librarians Are Ground Control designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
As Hybrid Classrooms Take Flight, Librarians Are Ground Control

As Hybrid Classrooms Take Flight, Librarians Are Ground Control

The one mantra coming from teachers that I keep hearing is “we are building the plane as we fly it” in reference to the challenges of hybrid classrooms. This is new for K-12 perhaps, but old hat in…

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Yes! gamesindustry.biz/articles/2…
New research shows video games improve literacy

New research shows video games improve literacy

A new study by the UK's National Literacy Trust linked video games to improved literacy, creativity, positive communica…

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The Parallels Between Distance Education and Driver Education designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
The Parallels Between Distance Education and Driver Education

The Parallels Between Distance Education and Driver Education

My daughter is 16 and in the midst of learning how to drive (fun times). Of course, this pandemic has disrupted her instructor-led training, but it has gotten me thinking about the parallels betwee…

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The Hottest Job in Higher Education: Instructional Designer insidehighered.com/digital-l…
The Hottest Job in Higher Education: Instructional Designer

The Hottest Job in Higher Education: Instructional Designer

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What the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Teaching Us About Information Literacy designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
What the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Teaching Us About Information Literacy

What the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Teaching Us About Information Literacy

Uncertainty is a central factor in information behavior. We are living in very uncertain times right now, and as you might have observed, a lot of people are struggling with it. We are still learni…

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Great tips from @Raspberry_Pi about storytelling with code! #remotelearning #ComputationalLiteracy raspberrypi.org/blog/digital…
Digital Making at Home: Storytelling with code - Raspberry Pi Foundation

Digital Making at Home: Storytelling with code - Raspberry Pi Foundation

We all have a story to tell! Telling stories is how we connect to each other, so this week, your challenge is to tell us a story using code.

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Inanimate Alice is now a Digital Promise Online Learning Resource! @DigitalPromise @RemoteLearning #remotelearning digitalpromise.org/online-le…
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Alice is the perfect protagonist to help kids cope in this time of anxiety and isolation @ASCAtweets @aasl @ALALibrary #bibliotherapy #remotelearning #immersiveliteracy
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We are looking for a Academic Library Intern interlochenarts.force.com/jo…
10 Reasons Why There is a Media and Information Literacy Crisis designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
10 Reasons Why There is a Media and Information Literacy Crisis

10 Reasons Why There is a Media and Information Literacy Crisis

According to a recent Education Week blog post by Stephen Sawchuck, “Students Are Really, Really Bad at Spotting Fake News, Misleading Websites.” No surprise there. But, just why do students contin…

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THIS: edutopia.org/article/multipl…

Multiple Intelligences Theory: Widely Used, Yet Misunderstood

One of the most popular ideas in education is applied in ways that its creator never intended.

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Yes! uxplanet.org/how-to-really-t…
How to (Really) Think Like a Designer

How to (Really) Think Like a Designer

The problem with so-called “Design Thinking,” and why MBA-created, process-based thought frameworks like this so often miss the mark.

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Let’s Talk About Design Thinking (A Designer’s Perspective) designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
Let’s Talk About Design Thinking (A Designer’s Perspective)

Let’s Talk About Design Thinking (A Designer’s Perspective)

Design thinking seems to be the latest and greatest trend that will change the face of education (or not). However, the notion that design thinking can be simplified into a step-by-step process is …

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The Library as an Education System designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
The Library as an Education System

The Library as an Education System

The library represents a unique form of education system because it not only supports informal learning goals, it more broadly supports the learning goals of the formal education systems that exist…

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The 10 Habits (of Mind) of Highly Effective Information Seekers designerlibrarian.wordpress.…
The 10 Habits (of Mind) of Highly Effective Information Seekers

The 10 Habits (of Mind) of Highly Effective Information Seekers

I have been on blog-writing hiatus of late due to my new status as a PhD student in Information Science. Happily, this past year has given me plenty of time to delve deeply into the theoretical und…

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