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! 

Who will lead them?

MD – tech literacy inventory, 7^th gr.  Need for data to show where teachers and students are.

Must use good examples for role modeling – this is how it can be done if we can use the tools – dialogue with admin to break down barriers

Some parents aren’t ready to allow kids to move forward, but used good examples to convince parents.

Used ustreaming to show parents what students are doing—encouraged other teachers to use tools.

Using web 2.0 apps embedded into curriculum—recommend tools to get teachers started, do pd to implement

Connect with parents after school, use communication tools to get parents, teachers, students informed

Project-based units, successful projects get hardware and rewards for moving forward—more training

Focusing Leadership and building leadership capacity– budgetary challenges, need integration and collaboration, professional development must change:  job-embedded, systemic, participatory

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?

Bureaucracies are more resistant to allowing schools to “be in the cloud.”

IT departments that include tech educators help to encourage use. 

Someone else always has the power to say yes or no to going forward.

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?

GoogleGroups, wikis or any online document sharing that allows students to have a voice.

PBwiki better at showing who is editing, don’t over-write on top of another author’s work.  Quick listing of student accounts-creates student usernames/passwords.

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

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
  • Table 13  Ustreaming, blogs, etc to facilitate communication with all stakeholders; Expand communication to other schools through blogs, wikis-national, international;  Use school email/web-based email for kids to communicate – policy/filterning barriers;Integrated library systems needed to encourage discovery and communication—tie into conversations

     

• 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.