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+ Technology Services for Incarcerated

Teens

Angela Craigangelakaycraig@gmail.com

Kelly Czarneckitechedlibrarian@gmail.com

+Why are technology skills important

for incarcerated teens?

How can a library best serve this population?

Best practices.

What value does the library gain from serving this population?

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Why are technology skills important for

incarcerated teens?

+ Teenagers who are at-risk:

•High risk of failing school

•Living in impoverished settings

•Have parents who are not high school graduates

•Come from poor families with ethnic and linguistic minority backgrounds

•Have a negative self-perception

Druian, G., & Butler, J. A. (1987). Effective schooling practices and at-risk youth: What the research shows. Retrieved May 10, 2010, from www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs.1.topsyn1.html

+Incarcerated Teens:

•Are behind their peers

•Limited access to technology

•Limited guidance when using technology

•Limited skills and options when they are released

+ Benefits of technology use for incarcerated teens:

• Teach real world applications

• Support research, design, analysis, and communication skills

•Motivate teens to learn in a constructive manner

•Develop personal skills, such as collaboration and team work

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By using technology with at-risk teens, students felt more motivated to learn, received better grades, and accepted

more responsibility for their work. Additionally, research found that computer-based instruction can

increase the self-esteem of at-risk youth.

Page, M. S. (2002). Technology-enriched classrooms: Effects on students of low-socioeconomic status. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 34(4), 389–409.

+ Five practices that have been shown in field studies to improve the education of at-risk

students:

Cognitively-guided instructionCulturally responsive teaching

Technology-enriched instructionCooperative learning

Instructional conversation

Waxman, H. C., Padron, Y. N., & Arnold, K. A. (2001). Effective instructional practice for students placed at risk of failure. In G.D. Borman, S.C. Stringfield, and R.E. Slavin (Eds.), Title I: Compensatory education at the crossroads. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

+ How can a library best serve this

population?

Partnerships Resources

Advocacy

+Partnerships

+ Resources

Successful Charlotte Mecklenburg Library programs for teens

Successful evaluation of programs

Books, computers, digital cameras, computers, flip cameras, etc

Trained staff to facilitated the programs

+ AdvocacyShow policy makers the importance of providing a place within library services for incarcerated

teens.

Use examples of digital products and pre/post evaluations to show what youth have

accomplished.

Always connect the product to real life applications.

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Best Practices

+ Teen Tech Week 2009: Press Play @ Your Library

• Purpose of YALSA’s Teen Tech Week

• Why we celebrate TTW at the Jail

• Activities we do at the Jail to participate in TTW

+Dream It Do It @ Your Library

D.I.D.I. provides seed funding (up to $1000 US) and the support youth need to launch their own social entrepreneurial projects.

The D.I.D.I. Initiative supports young people to launch their own sustainable ventures either within or outside ofTeen Second Life that create lasting benefit to their communities.

+ uCreate – the Edge Project

+ Bitstrips comics

+ Bitstrips comics

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•Podcasting •Wii Gaming•Resume writing•Library commercial•Flip cameras

+Other Technology Activities at Jail North:

• Watch current events on television (Obama’s inaugural address)

• View the web site of authors that visiting or currently reading

• Create stop-motion animation movies

• Have phone conferences with YA authors (Paul Volponi, Terry Trueman, etc.)

•Teen fathers made puppet shows for their kids and then filmed them • Use Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu) foranimation

Self-portrait using Scratch

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What value does the library gain from

serving this population?

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By its nature, libraries as an institution are committed to serving patrons, no matter what

their circumstances.

Libraries help create the ultimate social network for Youth Offenders.

If facilitated well, there is little to no additional monetary cost to libraries.

By serving incarcerated teens libraries generate community good will, and model

leadership behavior for other organizations.

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Angela Craigangelakaycraig@gmail.com

Kelly Czarneckitechedlibrarian@gmail.com