Jennifer LaGarde is a lifelong teacher and learner with more than 20 years in public education. She is passionate about leveraging technology to help students build authentic reading lives, meeting the unique needs of students living in poverty, and helping learners of all ages discern fact from fiction in the information they consume. Jennifer is the coauthor, with Darren Hudgins, of Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking in the Age of Fake News (ISTE, 2018) and Developing Digital Detectives (ISTE, 2021). She is also a part-time lecturer in the MLIS program at Rutgers University, where she has taught courses including Emerging Literacies, Young Adult Literature, and Children's Literature. In addition, Jennifer serves as the Library-Literacy Mentor with Bookelicious and hosts the podcast “The Reader's Heart.” She currently lives, works, reads, and drinks lots of coffee in Olympia, Washington. You can follow her adventures at
www.librarygirl.net
