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Table 11

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Challenge Brainstorm Area:

 

Instructions:  Assign a table recorder. The editor should click on edit tab above befor any editing can happen. If the editor needs to establish an account, please do that. Record the ideas you hear around the table. Save the page between presenters.

 

 

Cathy Nelson's challenge:

SO WHAT? The big challenge here is HOW to get them on board--

1) Teachers using the tools--harnessing them for educational purposes

2) Getting students to use them ethically & responsibly, and

3) Getting the filter guards to crak the portals! 

 

Teacher and parent seminars on the most current technology in the school.  Introduce google alert and pipl.com  to parents & students. Ex. of primary teachers using blogs to teach students safe practices during their reading and writing time.  Use the comments section as their reading and writing exercise. Sue Waters, edublogger, 5 common mistakes of bloggers.  Teaching global citizenship.  Start young and build strategies. 

 

 

Chrisopher Harris' challenge: Cloudy, with a chance of learning: How will school libraries interact with the cloud? As applications and services move online into an always connected space for working and interacting, how do our libraries respond? What applications and platforms can we best use?  Teaching intellectual property.

 

We need to live in the cloud.  We need access to the open source ware to do it, not blocked by IT. We need virtual role models that we can point to as examples. 

 

 

MaryFriend Shepherd's challenge: What is the single most useful online tool for helping students collaborate on school projects?  How can this tool be used to help students do things differently AND how can this tool be used to help students do different things?

 

Expands the audience and the conversation. Seeing the generation of knowledge as a process not just a product.  Facilitate learning during rather than just at the end.  It's collaborative for both students and teachers. Diigo for social bookmarking and group work is a great tool. Can set it up as a private group, add sticky notes & comments. Diigo has become a key tool.  It's exciting to do it all, but how do you fit it in w/o overload.  

 

 

David Loertscher's challge. Instructions: pick one or several challenges below and put table ideas right under the particular element you are talking about.

 

Using 21st C tools such as Skype, blogs, wikis, twitter, Ning, web pages, collaborative toolsetc.  You have to get the teachers on board.  GEtting students interested in wanting to post and become interested.  Assignments?  LMC links you to the best resources.  Student input.  Change school culture.  Cultivate.  Need to continue to build good relationships.  

 

Elements of the Virtual Learning Commons to Develop:

 

  • Turning assignments from classroom teacher dictates into conversations that include the teacher, students, specialists in the school, parents
  • Building a reading community through virtual book/movie/other media discussion clubs including wrting and utlizing social networking such as Facebook and Twitter, wikis, blogs, nings.
  • Encouraging the production of learner-created content whether for assignments or for fun and storing that content in a virtual school yearbook and museum. The center of fun and creativity.
  • The center for school improvement or experimental learningcenter where trials, experiments, action research, professional learning communities are centered.
  • A center for metacognitive reflection by both individuals and groups
  • The use of various types of tools to create a learning commons nested in the cloud. For example: signing up for Google APS as a school; Netbives, Pageflakes, etc.
  • Design as a method of capturing attention and collaboration; for example, perhaps there are multiple "main" pages as direct entry points for learners, classroom teachers, teacher librarians, etc. rather than trying to direct traffic all through one central page.
  • Invitations to collaborate at every appropriate place
  • Creating Knowledge Building Centers (idea from Deb Wallac) that are major collaborative pathfinders for learning units that are repeated in the school over and over. These knowledge centers might have links created by everyone, tools, data sets, sample units and their success over time, projects across the class/school/world, places to collaborate with experts; links to special collections at various libraries/museums/govt. agencies; student created tutorials/projects/interviews/data sets.
    • Global awareness Centers
    • Financial literacy centers
    • Health and wellness/obesity collaborative centers
    • Any other school wide effort to integrate themes into regular curricular efforts.
  • Demonstration of what clients can expect from teacherlibrarians, teachertechnologiests and other specialists (idea from Deb Wallace, Harvard business School)
  • Lots of collaborative tools for kids and teachers along with tutorials for their use. CollabTools
  • The integration of ICT literacy along with information literacy into learning activities designed to boot achievement.

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