CORE - Collaborative Online Resource Environment

Go to this link>>https://www.albertacore.ca/access/home.do

Access: To login, use your CBE username  and password!

What is Core?
Core is an online repository of educations resources.  It was created in partnership with the Calgary Board of Education, Calgary Catholic School District, Rocky View Schools, Golden Hills School Division and Canadian Rockies Public Schools with support from Alberta Education.
Core provides access to relevant, high quality educational resources from a wide range of sources, all from a single interface.  Available digital resources include:  streaming video and audio, animations, images, websites, newspapers, articles, educational games and works of art.  Hard-copy resource records include:  books, DVDs, and other resources.

LEARN 360 is now available for access to FEATURE FILMS that you may want to view at home or show in your classroom. Click here for the link to LEARN 360. Contact the teacher-librarian for the username and password as this resource is available 24/7 only to teachers and students 

Are you a Critical Thinker?

 

In this clip students identify important critical thinking skills needed in the 21st century.   How adept are you at critically analyzing information on the WWW? Are you able to identify invalidated, bogus or unreliable information? Reliable and credible resources are accessible from the school learning commons web page, see links to online and on-site resources in the right column.  What is Critical Thinking?

CBC Books - Canada Reads 2012 - Watch and Listen

CBC Books - Canada Reads 2012 - Watch and Listen
Jian Ghomeshi, host of Q , CBC's cultural affairs show.
Watch great interviews and commentary about books, artists, authors and more. Add your comments, share your thoughts and dialogue with others about your favorite books, artists, music groups, or movies here.

Literacy and Education for all Children

The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education. Education for all Global Monitoring Report. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Watch this powerful video from filmed episodes around the world related to global action to support literacy and education for all children in the world. We are global citizens, we can help in various ways, including raising awareness.
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Learning and Critical Thinking

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbe Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928