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NEW ARTICLE - Look at what is included in the framework.
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/21084from: Coalition Updates 21st Century Learning Frameworkby Dave Nagel A coalition of business and education groups called the Partnership for 21st Century Skills has updated its Framework for 21st Century Learning, a roadmap for education centered around technology and skills-focused learning. The updated Framework adopts an expanded scope to include two new areas: student mastery of the skills and knowledge needed to become successful "21st century citizens" and support systems needed to help schools in the delivery of 21st century learning. What does that mean? In slightly less abstract terms, the framework advocates:
The complete expanded framework can be found at the link below. The
Partnership for 21st Century Skills includes organizations ranging from
technology companies like Adobe, Apple, Intel, and Microsoft to
education organizations like the American Association of School
Librarians and the National Education Association. And once again, Maine leads the pack.. thank you Maine! http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=359&Itemid=64 ARE STATE FUNDED DATABASES (PAID FOR WITH OUR TAXES) THE VERY CORE OF DEMOCRACY OR ARE THEY JUST EXTRA AND NOT RELEVANT TO K12 EDUCATION? WILL THEY SUPPLY THE "VOICE" THAT WE WANT OUR STUDENTS TO READ AND ADD IN BLOG POSTS OR ARE THEY IRRELEVANT AND HARD TO USE?
Well, they certainly aren't the core of democracy but they can be helpful at times. HAVE YOU SEEN FINDARTICLES.COM???
Here is the "About" about Find Articles: What do you know about this? Is this "just as good as using a database?" FindArticles is a vast archive of research-quality published articles. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 900 magazines and journals. You will find articles on a range of topics, including business, health, society, entertainment, sports and more. Unlike other online collections, many of the millions of articles in FindArticles can be read in their entirety and printed at no cost. Other articles may be previewed on FindArticles and accessed in their entirety for a fee through our partners. WHAT WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO DO HERE:
Please add your experiences with databases in your state's box or add a box for your state and include your experiences, questions and stories! As always, we try to keep it real, so please tell real stories about when you and your students found what you needed or didn't and what the challenges were - where did you look? - who helped you? - what did you need? Last spring classes used EBSCO to research Greek gods and the characters of The Odyssey. They did their work in the library using laptop pcs. The librarian introduced us to the database and a few others that are available through our district via the Libray links link on our website: http://www.trenton.k12.nj.us/ Joyce Valenza's thoughts after our first week's conversation
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/1340000334.html MORE ABOUT THE FUTURE SHAPE OF INFORMATION
" One must remember that the cultural changes brought about by the Gutenberg press were extraordinary, and fueled not only by a sudden surplus of content, but also by a new way of interacting with that content. What seems unique about our age, however, is that social interaction is a form of content itself, and it’s up to librarians to take an active role in the creation and collaboration within this ethereal “user generated content.” It's more than just guiding patrons, but making this guidance contribute to the new substance of interaction. " This quote was taken from this very interesting article: http://www.degreetutor.com/library/librarians-online/future-librarians The Future of Librarians by Will Sherman --For me the interesting issue is not the future of librarians, but the very nature of how we take in, relate to and use information. Paul Allison modeled the power of teaching students to integrate voice (information?) into their posts (their very thinking?). Some things just don't change. When I was in high school, we learned not to just quote facts but integrate them into our topics in interesting ways. What an interesting idea Marshall McLuhan had when he said the future of the book is the blurb. Sherman also quotes Hart, “Before The Gutenberg Press the average person could own zero books. Before Project Gutenberg the average person could own zero libraries.” Notes from TEXSHARE (Texas)
Texas is creating youtube videos to promote their databases.. but how are the databases? Has anyone tried to use them?? http://www.texshare.edu/ http://youtube.com/watch?v=eicVA_3FrtA http://youtube.com/watch?v=clAMHY9PlAg http://youtube.com/watch?v=ga0l7xG_Uuw Good morning everyone, ARTICLE FROM THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER LEARNING
A List Without Libraries http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2288 From The Chronicle of Higher Learning The Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ list of Top 100 Tools for Learning — culled from top-10 charts created by e-learning experts — names a wide array of tech tools that professors have come to love. Among the items that made the cut are Web browsers, e-mail clients, RSS feeders, blogging programs, and, of course, Microsoft’s evergreen PowerPoint presentation software. But online library resources, which would seem like a good fit for e-learners, are notably absent from the master list. What gives? “It’s not as if the responding experts ignored information-retrieval tools,” writes Steven Bell at ACRLog. “Both Google and Google Scholar are on the top-100 list. And it’s not as if these experts wouldn’t know something about library databases.” Mr. Bell, the associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University, argues that librarians just haven’t done a good job of advertising their online databases and e-journal collections as instructional tools. But Stephen Downes, the author of OLDaily, says the lack of library services on the list could be evidence of bad tools, not a lack of publicity. Mr. Downes, a senior researcher for Canada’s National Research Council, says he has access to a major online library portal, but that he has used the services only twice in six years. “The reason,” he writes, “is that it is not convenient, not even remotely, especially with the layers of security involved in protecting publisher’s intellectual property.” If digital library
resources should, in fact, be thought of as instructional technologies,
are they actually meeting the needs of e-learners and other scholars? —Brock Read WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING LATELY:
Right now, at Teachers Teaching Teachers, (http://www.teachersteachingteachers.org) we've been talking about using RSS feeds and Google Reader with our students (K-12). This (http://elggplans.wikispaces.com/Using+Google+Reader) is a wiki page that Paul Allison has started to gather information about how we are using research, Google Reader and RSS with blogging projects. For three weeks in August, we would like to highlight NOVEL (New York), GALILEO (Georgia) and other such projects in different states that bring the rich resources of database collections to our students. Join us to learn, question and stretch our ability to find what we want, when we want it online! Join us to learn how to help your students learn how to use these rich resources! Come with questions and share experiences as the librarians behind these rich resources give us a behind the scenes guided tour and answer your questions! Teachers Teaching Teachers http://www.edtechtalk.com Wednesdays in August 9pm Eastern Time USA WHAT WE'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT FOR OUR NEXT CONVERSATION:
Blog postings become richer and our very thinking becomes richer when we can identify our own topics of interest and include other voices. Sometimes we call these snippets, sometimes research. Students tell us that learning how to include snippets in their blog posts makes them question their own stands on issues, supports and validates a stand on an issue, makes them realize that other people have the same interest or concern and adds interesting other perspectives that they had never considered to their thinking. Sometimes we blog to find our voice and the responses don't matter. Sometimes when we blog, we are looking for feedback and response. Many students find that including snippets can build a more provocative post which will then get more responses. If it gets too long and wandering, responses dwindle. How do you include snippets in a provocative interesting way that connects to what you are trying to say to get maximum notice and response. We have been discussing RSS feeds as a way of following all these different kinds of information and keeping up with it. We are discussing the differences between the information found on websites, Google News, Wikipedia, blogs and podcasts. Why do we want more? What are these state funded databases? Why were they created? Who pays for them? Why? Who decides what's in them? When can you use them? How do you find them? Why do we need them? Why are they so different looking than most websites? How do you know what's good and what's not? What's true (reliable?) and what's not? Why is it so hard to find good results and why is worth the struggle when it seems so much easier to find information about a topic by just searching Google? How do you find what you want using these databases? Our blogs have public RSS feeds attached to them so we have to be very careful about the legality of using text and images and audio. What are the rules for citing snippets from these databases? How do you do it? ALSO WATCH THIS!
Watch and listen to Paul Allison thinking about this: http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/07/building-community-for-youth-voices.html Notes from GALILEO (Georgia)
http://www.georgialibraries.org/lib/galileo.html
Notes from FEL (Florida)
http://www.flelibrary.org/ The first thing students will need to do is get a library card in order to use this site. I truly wish there was a way to log onto these sites without having to possess a card. But it is what it is. So, After locating my library card... finally, I logged onto the eLibrary site and began to play! Did I mention that I KNOW my kids will lose their cards. Anyway, here goes: This past year we started using the The Department of Libraries from Arlington,Virginia which is an open-to-the-public database with an extremely nice variety of resources. The Arlington Public Library is the portal for this database and they offer their own array of helpful resources "putting the world within reach". Diane Kresh explains their vision in her Message from the Director. We may have had more fun looking around at everything they had to offer than getting any research done but my students were intrigued with being in a "room" such as a library without ever leaving their computers at school. Getting comfortable was important and their visit to the library brought up many questions such as how databases are created, what is legal to use and how much citing needed done when using their resources. I am looking forward to this year and our plans to include these types of databases in our lesson plans. ~Lee The "Find it Virginia" website is another database resource we occasionally use for Virginia students. You need to enter your library card number to access items but you can search for articles and e-mail or
print articles you find.
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