Sentences with phrase «living library model»

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Participants will take with them a video library that articulates the knowledge and understandings necessary to help students become strategic and flexible thinkers when modeling real - life situation with mathematics.

The authors pointed out some of the advantages of low poverty noting, «Children whose parents read to them at home, whose health is good and can attend school regularly, who do not live in fear of crime and violence, who enjoy stable housing and continuous school attendance, whose parents» regular employment creates security, who are exposed to museums, libraries, music and art lessons, who travel outside their immediate neighborhoods, and who are surrounded by adults who model high educational achievement and attainment will, on average, achieve at higher levels than children without these educationally relevant advantages.»

You have to go to the library, maybe the book has been checked out and you have to come back another time... With ebooks, you sit on your couch in your living room and go to the library website, see if the library has it... You get the book, read it, return it and get another, all without paying a thing... How is that a good model for us?»

This model, already used in US public libraries is a highly desirable solution for readers (better value proposition, absolute freedom to follow their interests) and for publishers (utilize the full value of their catalog, bring life to the long tail).

However, at the same time, libraries are facing an identity crisis: As the Internet has become the primary way people gather information, the traditional «building filled with books» model is less relevant to their lives.

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