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Table 23

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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! 

How do we get our administrators and teachers on board with these tools?

  • Have kids use Pipl.com to see their digital footprint
  • iSafe programs for students
  • students using YouTube to upload video-taped fights
  • have a summer workshop for administrators for them to set up their own Facebook pages and Twitter accounts so they can see what it is like for themselves and begin to undertand educational uses.
  • problem when the district blocks web sites like You Tube, then it is blocked for everyone. 
  • need to have good cooperation between library and technology staffs, perhaps even combine departments so discussions about filtering can happen
  • AUPs are important and need to address Web 2.0 issues
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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?

 

 

 

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?

  • Wikispaces are so user friendly - for library, have students do Podcast book reviews, post those on a wiki, have a page for students to add what titles they are reading now, titles they wish the library would buy, movie tie-ins, etc. 
  • Skype works well for colaboration expecially when it is difficult for students to get to each other's houses to work on projects
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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
  • 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.
    • have kids type in a few sentences about books they are reading now
    • have a place for students to make book recommendations to add to the library
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  • 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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