Does your family have rules about media use?

"According to a 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study... despite the correlation between heavy media use and lower grades, only three in 10 young people reported having family rules about TV, videos games and the Internet." This article discusses the importance of media limits and some ideas of how to set them. Read the article here.

Social Skills effected by Digital Multitasking.

Girls aged 8 to 12 who frequently multitask between different digital devices, communicate online or watch videos were more likely to face social problems, Stanford University researchers reported in the journal Developmental Psychology. Although the study only involved girls, the findings should apply to boys, too, study researcher Clifford Nass said.


Read the article here.

Even more fun!

Apparently there are bunches of animated bookshelves out there. This link is to an animated book store. I love it. I hope you do too.

Just for fun...

How would you organize your bookshelves? By color? With a banana? No this isn't the start of Dr. Seuss story. Take a peek at these "dancing books".

"Reading is not optional."

May I introduce you to Walter Dean Myers? He is the new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature appointed by the Library of Congress and an award winning author of over 100 books.
Many of your children may know of him as the star poet featured in Love that Dog by Sharon Creech. Fortunatley for us, he'll be traveling the country for the next two years  to promote the importance of fiction and nonfiction in the lives of young people. To read more click here.

Visit our library to check out one of his books today.

Look for the blue database book mark!

All students at Bennett have been given a blue book mark that has a link to this blog plus all the log-in and password information for all the subscription databases. At the top of this page on the right is the link to the library catalog. From there you can click on the Databases button or scroll down this page below the bookshelf to access the individual databases. They're great. Give one a try.