Embracing Technology and the Internet in School

Mark E. Moran, Founder, Dulcinea Media

Fall 2010

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“School librarians, as we once knew them, may no longer be relevant.” – Joyce Valenza & Doug Johnson, SLJ .

“This is the most exciting time in history to be a librarian.”

- Johnson & Valenza

“Future largely dependent on us and how quickly we respond to change.” change.””

We need to teach studentshow to ask questions.

- Angela Maiers

Young kids ask a lot of great questions

But something happens along the way.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggctzm6EhGs

What sound does a goat make?

Ask a five-year-old ...

Let’s it!

The Internet defines the way that young people learn, communicate, and create.

Students feel in charge of information.

Life has become an open-book test.

- Peter Pappas

Found our own study materials online.

“It is very likely that our students’ brains have physically changed– and are different from ours – as a result of how they grew up.”

- Marc Prensky

Kids have

“Answers”

in the palm

of their hand

WEB

SURVEY

Question: How do you begin your search?

Answer: I type a question.

Almost 50 percent of middle school students are still using natural language in their search queries instead of key terms.

Question: How do you know if a source is a good source to use for a school paper?

Answer: If it “looks good” or “sounds good.” If it has the “correct” information.

Actual response:I don’t know. I just go with it.

Students do not know how to find or evaluate the information they need on the Internet.

Don’t check author: “It doesn’t matter”

Don’t check date: “I can’t find it.”

WE’RE LOST

Improving Web literacy starts with your own skills.

“Students see educators modeling an effective research process and learn from it.”

- Colette Cassinelli

Recognizing reliable sources+

consider infinite options+

Understanding intellectual property rights+

Engaging modern audiences with conclusions

= EFFECTIVE USE OF THE WEB

Students with access to librarians "take the prize of better grades.”

The rest “beyond hope.”

--UC London Research Review

Kids without adult guidance online end up as “feral children of the Internet…raised by the wolves of Web 2.0”

--Henry Jenkins

What about teachers?

Many teachers need guidance, too.

There are no excuses:

“too old”

“too new”

“too frightened of technology”

“too shy”

“As a quiet person … I’ve been able to find my voice online.”-Lauren Pressley

“Kids haven’t changed, I have.”

-Marlene ThorntonDrama teacher since 1982, self-described technophobe

Laura Cohen: Librarian 2.0 Manifesto

“educate myself”

“let go….not defensive”

“enjoy the excitement and fun of positive change”

“validate…librarians' vital and relevant professional role in any type of information culture that evolves”

I’m In. Where’s Card Catalog 2.0?

“There is no textbook for what effective practice looks like in continually morphing information and communication landscapes.””- Joyce Valenza

Commit to being a daily, life-long learner.

Librarians cannot adequately retool if they do not develop personal learning networks.

Those who don’t drag us all down.

Valenza/Johnson

Most educators in the same boat as you.

More ways to collaborate & commiserate than ever.

Thousands of free sources online.

A PLN that helps you sort them out.

You are no longer the “sage on the stage.”

Collaborate with students and build knowledge.

Let students take over for you.

-Shannon Miller

Model of the isolated librarian is broken.

Embed yourself!

-Buffy Hamilton

But don’t water the rocks!

Do you believe in me? Do you believe in yourself?

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/daltonshermandallasisd.htm

“Here’s the deal. I can do anything, be anything, create anything, dream anything, become anything -- because you believe in me, and it rubs off on me.”

- Dalton Sherman

“Do you believe that what you’re doing is shaping, not just my generation, but that of my children and my children’s children?”

“Believe in yourself.”

- Dalton Sherman

Further Resources:• http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6699357.html• http://www.forbes.com/2010/03/22/moran-librarian-skills-intelligent-investing-google_2.

html• http://www.slideshare.net/angelamaiers/learning-now• http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/2006/11/a_librarians_20_manifesto.html• http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/its-broken-lets-fix-it-the-traditional-m

odel-of-school-librarianship/• http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/daltonshermandallasisd.htm• http://www.SweetSearch.com/schoollibrarians