technologyskills2010
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2010 ALA Conference presentation. YALSA program.TRANSCRIPT
+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.
