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 * Student Awards**

A3: The Art of Integration
Here are two lessons using the database ArtStor. Open PowerPoint first before clicking on file.

A4 Resources for Students With Special Needs


** A8: Transforming a 20th Century Curriculum with 21st Century Standards **

B8 Hidden Gems: Google Behind the Scenes

 * Resources:
 * [|MyPaperBag: Googling] Page with PowerPoint Presentation (without screencasts) -- Includes links to tool resources and examples
 * Homepage Example Using Google Documents ([|Centerville Middle School Portal])
 * Sample [|American Revolution Research Planner] (Pathfinder) incorporating Google created tools

B13 A Picture's Worth a Thousand Words
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General Session Notes - Ross Todd presentation


Dr Ross J. Todd Rutgers University rtodd@scils.rutgers.edu cissl.scils.rutgers.edu
 * From Evidence Found to Action Taken: Building the Future of School Libraries**



Mary Gaver 1958 - //The school library at the heart of the school program. Because of school libraries, students have the best chance to become capable, enthusiastic readers, informed about the world.//

Do we really need a library? • availability of technology (Google) • costly - print resources • students using libraries less • www.schoolsucks.com and the like

Steamroller or Part of the Road? Moving slowly forward or squashed into the road?

ACTION! Thinking and believing without action is pointless Someone else’s solution may not be the one in the best interest of the school library from Victim to Victor - no one is going to rescue us, we have to rescue ourselves.

1) From Information to Inquiry - Without inquiry, no reason for library 2) Evidence-based practice - without evidence = opinion 3) Building teams and partnerships - w/o teams, limited change(?) 4) Engaging Web 2.0 tools to develop deep inquiry - using the intellectual possibilities, the inquiry - not just about creating a wiki, but how do we use them to create intellectual possibilities 5) Re-imagining school libraries
 * 5 Key Actions: Best Practices**


 * Challenge 1 - School Libraries as Knowledge Centers, not information places**
 * • celebrate the understood, not the found
 * • foster inquiry and building knowledge, not finding info
 * • research on Information Literacy tends to show that librarians teach more about finding than about understanding
 * • How do we engage kids with the info they found?
 * • Google Generation
 * o bounces, skims many pages and spends little time on ebook or ejournal sites...aka...”Power Browsing”
 * o Uses simple search strategies
 * o Squirrels/stockpiles info and downloaded material...for later
 * o Superficial effort in knowledge construction
 * o Transports, rather than transforms information
 * • How to get to deeper understanding?
 * • Reference to www.wordle.net, shows 21st-C documents emphasize: knowledge, skills, & understanding, while library policies tend to show: Library, resources, books.
 * • Ohio Study showed the role of the school library is TRANSFORMATION
 * • Knowledge creation
 * • What is a school lib? Physical & Virtual info-to-knowledge commons; literacy, inquiry, thinking, imagination, discovery, creativity are central to students learning in all curriculum areas.
 * • Inquiry Learning – information from conflicting sources, wrestle with those and thinking through to gain personal perspectives & knowledge outcomes
 * • Stop TRANSPORTING INFO
 * • Instructional Interventions – blogs, creative writing, wiki, synthesize responses, math personal dreams with famous person. Example: list vs. Ella Fitzgerald poem.


 * Challenge 2 - Evidence based, how does your school library impact student learning?**
 * Ask how your library accomplishes: Learning, Literacy, Living
 * School Libraries Work! Are you familiar with the research in our field?
 * Use research to inform our day-to-day practices
 * Share that info with school administrators/teachers
 * Evidence IN practice: gather data from our practices, assessments
 * Evidence OF practice: impacts linked to learning outcomes
 * Evidence FOR practice: how are we sharing this evidence? Are we celebrating student success?
 * Need Knowledge Evidence!


 * Challenge 3 – Building Partnerships and Teams**
 * Key to survival
 * Become instructional centers
 * Librarians need to be on the same plane as teachers

To develop deep inquiry
 * Challenge 4 - Engage Web 2.0 Tools**


 * Challenge 5 - Re-Imagining School Libraries**
 * Data/Info Commons
 * Knowledge Commons
 * Leisure Commons
 * Networking Commons
 * Tech Commons
 * Collective Commons
 * Café Commons

Think | Ask | Create

Rita Dove “The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul...” Edna St. Vincent Millay A Time of Bold Action JFK “We set sail on this sea because there in knowledge to be gained.”

Article mentioned in presentation [|Prensky, Marc. Turning on the Lights.]


 * Community | Communication | Collaboration | Creativity**