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# 2 - Advocacy for the library These are tools that will help us document our work, reach out to our communities, share the stories of our students successes and advocate for the retention and expansion of our library programs. Read more: Everyday Advocacy: Making a case for libraries is easy with web tools. Here’s how to get started. - Carolyn Foote, School Library Journal (Aug. 2010)
In some schools, students aren't getting much exposure to the "new" web in educational settings, yet they are immersed in it outside of school. And frankly, it's not new to them! It's just as much a part of their world as the air they breathe. And though the technology may be second nature to many students, they're not necessarily learning how to use it most effectively, nor are they getting the opportunity to use these tools to help them learn.
At the same time, these read/write tools and ways of connecting online are still very new and foreign to many of us. And we haven't had a chance to really dive in and understand how online collaborating and sharing really does change how we communicate and learn. When we do, that's when we'll be able to move beyond using web tools to just replicate what we used to do on paper and exploit it's full potential for learning. The real learning takes place when we engage in conversations with others who can add to our knowledge and challenge us to think more deeply and critically. What an exciting and challenging time we're in for!
"It wasn't until I fully understood how these technologies could facilitate global connections around my own passions, and how they could help me create powerful learning networks and communities, that I was able to see what needed to change in terms of my curriculum and my teaching." (source: Will Richardson, "Blogs, wikis, podcasts & other powerful Web tools for classrooms" pg. 8. 2010)
The need for media literacy has never been greater. Of course "traditional" filters for information still exist: newspapers, books, authors, teachers and so on. But we all have access to far more unfiltered information than we've ever had before and with that comes the need to understand how to decipher what's valuable and what isn't. We all need to become our own filters. And this is a skill our students must have to succeed.
"Access to information has changed. People’s capacity to search for information has changed. Their mechanisms for sorting and making sense of information has changed. The methods of curating information has changed. The ways in which information is granted legitimacy and credibility are changing. The mechanisms that people have for reacting to and contributing to information have changed. In short, it’s a new information ecology requiring vastly different survival traits for information users – and the librarians who help them."
The new literacies almost all involve social skills developed through collaboration and networking. These skills build on the foundation of traditional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. The new skills include:
Play— the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
Performance— the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
Simulation— the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
Appropriation— the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
Multitasking— the ability to scan one’s environment and shift focus as needed to salient details.
Distributed Cognition— the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand mental capacities
Collective Intelligence— the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
Judgment— the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
Transmedia Navigation— the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
Networking— the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
Negotiation— the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms.
Jane Hart's Reading List - ongoing list of interesting articles about social media and learning technologies in education.
Positive Uses of Social Networking (pdf) During October 2006, YALSA bloggers posted 30 short examples of positive uses of social networking tools in schools and libraries.
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