Challenge Brainstorm Area:
Instructions: Assign a table recorder. The editor should click on edit tab above before 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: how do we get out teachers, administrators and parent on board?
link them up with their own kids and family by using 2.0 strategies
play - encourage them to play and it will spill over into personal life
weekly reader sent out by principal - start using web 2.0 to share
show them how, teach them the tools, tell them why it is important
show them the value of 2.0, don't just do it to do it
it is the way education is going and that in order for us to be relevant we need to be on board
have standards for teachers - tech standards
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?
google apps - if everyone is working on same document you can verify that students are holding up their own end of project and see they are working on it and collaborating
wikis - add comments and collaboration amongst teachers and librarians
add real time feedback to students projects - amazing ability to transform their work
David Loertscher's challenge. Instructions: pick one or several challenges below and put table ideas right under the particular element you are talking about.
can use wiki to establish a conversation
can use social bookmarking, voicethread for assignments, edmodo etc
make it personal so that students have something to add and can't copy from each other. Use Ning within school so you can post all kinds of things and keep it private. Private wikis are important and students can be uploaded as users.
fro younger kids they can contribute using voice instead of things like Ning
adopt google apps as a school and have all your teachers use this
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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