Challenge Brainstorm Area:

 

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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! 

 

Techno Tuesday Blog http://www.technotuesday.com/

cathyjonelson@gmail.com http://bit.ly/lxKRO

Write about what the students will gain and grants usually get funded.

 

All these tools with syndication and aggregation (RSS, videos, photos, wikis, social bookamarks, podcasts, blogs , etc.).

Think of it as the BRAIN to allow for communication. There are a lot of people holding back a lot!

"Oh No, here comes the blogger!"

How are the students developing and using their tools.

We need to expose students to the tools and the ethics of using these tools.

 

Harness the tools to make them useful in the teaching context.

Teach students to use Google Alerts on a topic they are researching.

Quoted Will Richardson -- "before any real systemic change can occur...teachers and educators must understand it for themselves first..." (Youtube - ReadWriteWeb with Will Richardson.)

 

Who will lead them?

 

HOW DO WE GET OUR ADMINISTRATORS and TEACHERS ON BOARD?

There has to be a value to them.

My faculty doesn't have enough time. They are so busy. How can I get time?

Look at pockets of teachers who are high level users and set up best practices as models.

Difficult where there is "excellence" and no apparent need to change -- why change if you have high scores?

As a district more people are talking about 21st century skills.

Media Specialists need to be more vocal and supportive.

David Loertscher's idea of 360 degree change might provide the environment where everyone is in it together.

Make it an exploration and adventure.

If the learning commons it has to have value for everyone...

Students need to have a strong voice in it....

 

 

 

 

 

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?

School library system for BOCEES

 

Technology writer for SLJ..

use open source.

Has a book coming out  http://digitalreshift.org

infomancy@gmail.com

Sign up for FAcebook to join Facebook Apps for libraries.

Our vendors need to create apps.

We need to live in the cloud, not commute to the cloud.

Told us about a couple of solutions:

Start looking at applications... such as ZohoWriter, etc.

Application Programming Interface --- needs an API.

We need not just the website, but the web application.

 

Grow your own GEEKS... since they are expensive.

Drupal.org (open source content management framework)

fish4info -- our implementation of a library learning commons. The catalog is the website... Taking over bookrooms.. and school improvement... catalog all learning connections..

Power is this is a learning environment...

Use moderated trust not radical trust...

PLATFORMS: the ipod or iphone is the best example..

netbooks are cool and may work, but the iphone is maybe the solution..

Learning Commons needs to be mobile...

 

WHAT DO OUR LIBRARY SERVICES LOOK LIKE IF WE PUT THEM IN THE CLOUD. WHAT DO WE DO TO MEET THEIR NEEDS? WHO ARE THE PARTNERS WE CAN TAP?

 

 

 

 

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?

Rewriting the entire ed tech program at Walden. I believe that even at the PhD level students need to show how they learn and describe the process to get to their new understanding..

Using Online Tools for collaboration --

PowerBoost Your Lessons with wikis http://powerboostnecc09.wikispaces.com/  yodio - another free podcasting tool

authorSTREAM.com (Powerpoint host site.. keeps your effects)

 

WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT THINGS WE CAN DO NOW, THAT WE HAVE NOT DONE BEFORE..

Now you can follow the process more carefully than before..

Deeper collaboration.

Bringing experts in  is now possible with distance learning tools..

Taking things to a higher ground is more possible with multimedia and ongoing reflection.

We have to be careful that when all these tools are infused we don't lose the content.

 

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

The Virtual Learning Comons: A Challenge  http://schoolelearningcommons.pbworks.com 

Looked at evolution of issues in the field.

However, it's time to face reality! (tech, Google, Convenience)

Several studies have renamed the "new" generation --- however, we start behaving like the kids do.

NOW, rethinking everything for model building -- radical change is in order.  Is it GM time or do we plow and plug along.

TIME to reinvent the school library media center...

Learning Commons..

A 180 degree thinking change to transfer ownership.. if THEY build it they will use it. Vision with a client-cetnered approach (physically and virtually)

The physical space should not be a warehouse but a learning space...

The library web page vs. the virtual learning commons - a giant conversation

In a virtual learning commons - there are collaborative web 2.0 learning projects, resource center bulit by everyone, virtual book clubs, assignment conversations: teacher/LMS/teacher librarian/learners and other specialists, communication central 24/7/365, virtual year book/museum.

Mentioned student Kamilah Jackson in Watts, CA who is working on developing one piece of a Middle School Virtual Learning Commons..

There will be free illuminate sessions for everyone to get engaged in -- please join.

Sample Virtual Open Commons and the virtual experimental learning center... all PD come through the learning commons (ex - establish learning communities, and PD 360)

A Knowledge Construction Center (EX: Mr. Ortega Animal -biome-unit...

 -- has resources, examples of previous students' work, teacher blog, feeds on student pages, collaboration center with these program aspects: the specialists, including the LMS can enrich, transform, develop, or provide links to our work

The "magical" piece is the track record of all the specialists who have made a link into the curriculum in the school (Year-long record of interventions)

 

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.

 

How can we bring this to fruition:

Survey the community for strengths, skills, interests that can be shared in the school. If it is a Google Doc that parents can fill in.

Could include cultures as well.

We thought that if we could identify what these things do we could put in what you can do with these.

You need a large group of stakeholders (students, teachers, parents, administrators) to create the vision and the design of the learning commons.

Need a clean tool for tracking who is working with various aspects of the learning commons. Needs to be the responsibility of all stakeholders....

You want the kids becoming experts and getting involved.

A framework or systematic approach needs to be created.