The 21st Century School Library; Evidence-Based Practice and You
A few resources and ideas for you.
David V. Loertscher
Password = oasl
You too can edit this page and add ideas and correct my blind typing errors.
First check out: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=librarian
From the Friday workshops:
The first URL below is a Google Spreadsheet. As you remember, you can have numerous kids working on the spreadsheet at one time. If one of the students is editing a cell, that cell appears as gray on other student's screens.
The second URL is for Google Groups. Here, Dave and Richie have created their own pages. Each of your students in a class can have thier own page in the group. then each student can write on their own page and every other student can look at that page and edit that page. It is like having a public diary. This would be good for quickwrites about books or ideas or keeping notes about what I am doing or my log of what I am doing on a project with my group.
Both of these programs are free. They can have various levels of security from open to lockdown.
From the Saturday morning keynote:
The ice cream presentation is from a recent article in Teacher Libarian
Standards:
- AASL Standards will be published at the AASL conference in Reno Oct 25-27
- ISTE hans new NETS standards for studentws
- 21st Century Learning Skills has a revised model
- ASCD has a new Whole Child initiative
The point is: compare the new standards with the goals of NCLB as reauthorized (soon) and make the the point of personal and group study)
What is Evidence based practice? It is collecting evidence of what you are doing so that you can make progress toward excellence.
Know not only your own standards but also the best of the best ideas from education:
Remember that people work on their agendas, not yours and you have to speak their language.
Collaboration
- Still our best hope of making a difference
- Ban every bird unit you can - transform into high think and exemplary learning experiences
- When you collaobrate ask the question: Are Two Heads Better Than One? - report the answer at http:davidvl.org
- At davidvl.org you will find Action Research reports, professional literature reviews and a link to Knowville
- Three new studies at the Tres. Mt. Research Retreat are critical of this role, however practitioners keep reporting major success.
- Break the cycle of babysitting but not teacher planning periods.
- Suggestion: Set up a blog at Google.com (blogger) and report your successes. brag about teachers, principals, p0arents and students who do high-level learning activities and projects.
Information Literacy
- Restrict teaching the whole Big 6 model to fully developed research papers, reports
- Do just in time critical info skills during collaboration - the teacher will learn them and teach them when you are not available.
- Stress quality information, quality information, analysis, synthesis, think
- Cance linear oral reports in favor of big think activities - see the new book: Beyond Bird Units by Loertscher/Koeschlin, Zwaan at http:/./lmcsource.com
- Should we have a test? I say it is already embedded in many state standards and many tests. Look for it there
Reading
- Mesh with the language arts - be at the table
- Insert your agenda of wide reding, the love of reading, and a life-long reading habit
- Make access to books happen - be a Barnes and Nobel Bookstory
- Participate inhttp://knowville.org
The Digital School Library
- We have been Eclipsed by Google
- Examine the new In Command book by Williams and Loertscher (lmcsource.com) for a new idea
- Chidren and teens should learn to be in command of their own information spaces
- iGoogle pages linked through RSS feeds to the school library blogs
- Students create their own personal space, group space, and Outer space
- Introduce Web 2.0 applications into learning - they do things no other technology has been able to do to boos learning.
Summary:
Do good things and report good things.
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