digital age libraries and youth: learning labs, literacy leaders, radical resources
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Digital Age Libraries and Youth: Learning Labs, Literacy Leaders, Radical Resources. Oregon Library Association Children's Services Division Fall WORKSHOP October 27, 2012. Dr. Eliza T. Dresang, Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digital Age Libraries and Youth: Learning Labs, Literacy Leaders,
Radical Resources
Dr. Eliza T. Dresang, Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services
J. Elizabeth Mills, MLIS Candidate and Cleary Graduate Assistant
Introduction
Young Readers’ Library & Reading Habits
Young Readers’ Library & Reading Habits
Digital Age Assumptions about Youth
Youth are capable and seeking connections.
The digital environment nurtures youth’s capabilities.
Handheld books offer digital-age connections.
Adults and youth are partners in the digital world.
21st Century Change #1: Libraries as Labs for Learning
• Labs for Learning • Labs for Learning about
Learning
Digital teens
• Past: good was good
• Now: Libraries as partners and laboratories for research
Hanging out, messing around, geeking out (Ito 2010)
YouMedia: First MacArthurIMLS library learning lab
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21st century libraries as learning labs
Most important finding of first year of You Media
• Importance of library staff
• Youth as teachers and staff as partners
Other library as learning lab projects
YA Spaces (Bernier)
Other library as learning lab projects
Independent versus group information seeking (Meyers 2011)
Other library as learning lab projects
Scratch in Libraries
21st Century Change #2:Libraries Are Literacy Leaders
21st Century Change #2:Libraries Are Literacy Leaders
Libraries as literacy promoters
Changing role of librarian
Libraries & achievement
ECRR & ECRR2
• Outcomes and impact
• ELSA• VIEWS2• Schools & Early
Literacy
• OUTCOMES & IMPACT:
• ELSA (Early Literacy Skills Assessment)
• VIEWS2 (valuable Initiatives in early literacy that work successfully)
• Schools & Early Literacy (State Literacy Council)
21st Century Change #3:Radicalizing Resources
21st Century Change #3:Radicalizing Resources
Do libraries need books?
How ‘radical’ are handheld books?
What is a book?
A digital library for the world’s children
What is a book?
New frontiers to defend access for youth
Conclusion