Judi Repman

Lucy Bush

Diane Griffin

Georgia Conference on Information Literacy

October, 2008

Getting the Conversation Started:

Can We Teach 21st Century Skills Without Using 21st Century Tools?

Our Playlist:

• A Vision of K12 Students Today
• Learning to Change Changing to Learn 
• The School Library is a Mashup (created using Animoto by Doyle and Trousedell)

Defining Literacy in the 21st Century 

• The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future
• The NCTE Definition of 21st Century Literacies  
  • Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
  • Build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and

    cross-culturally

  • Design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of

    purposes

  • Manage, analyze and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneous

    information

  • Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts
  • Attend to the ethical responsibilities required by these complex environments
  • the Wordle view
• New Literacies, New Libraries, New Learners (a wealth of resources, beautifully organized!)
• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

The AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

Learners Use Skills, Resources and Tools to

• Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge
  • Using blogs and wikis to organize the research process (Joyce Valenza blog post)
  • Using YouTube in the Classroom (use of TeacherTube as a "work around" is described here)
  • YA Lit 2.0: How Technology is Enhancing the Pleasure Reading Experience for Teens (Knowledge Quest article by Anita Beaman)
  • The Weiss Reader's Book blog
  • Internet Search Challenge
• Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge
  • Truth: Can You Handle It? (Washington Post article)
  • The Way of the Wiki (from Edutopia)
  • Digital Law Wiki (a student team project from Westwood School; other examples of outstanding student work with Web 2.0 tools can be found here)
  • Wikijunior (a project where students can collaborate to create wikibooks)
  • C-Span's 2008 Student Cam Award Winners
• Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society
  • Shifts of Control (article from Tech & Learning about ethical use of blogs)
  • What Makes you a Good Digizen? (extensive resources here about many aspects of digital citizenship)
  • Taming the Beast: Social Bookmarking (School Library Journal article by Will Richardson)
  • Class Blogging Rules (as established by the class)
  • LREC/LMS (a collaborative between students in the United States and Liberia)
  • Alejandro's Cave of Mystery (one blogger from The Write Weblog)
• Pursue personal and aesthetic growth
  • Isinglass Teen Read Award podcasts (Hopkinton Middle and High School Libraries)
  • http://bookleads.wikispaces.com/

General Resources and Examples

• Web Tools 4U2Use (clearly the best resource of its kind!)
• Web 2.0 Tools for the Classroom Teacher
• Kathy Schrock's Web 2.0 Tools
• Library Media Specialist 2.0 (a virtual workshop to explore these tools)
• 21st Century Literacies (created by Debbie Abilock; a wealth of instructional ideas)
• A New Literacies Sampler (free e-book by Knobel and Lankshear)
• 7 Things You Should Know About series (these resources are developed by EDUCAUSE, a very respected source in higher education)
• 100 Free Library 2.0 Webinars and Tutorials
• Free Social Media Tools for Educators
• A Wiki of Library Blogs
• The Unquiet Library Blog (many outstanding examples of integrating Web 2.0 tools into a high school library program; the Springfield Township High School site is another excellent site for this purpose)
• Remixing for School Library 2.5
• Teaching for Information Literacy
• http://langwitches.org/blog/2007/12/22/best-web-20-applications-for-elementary-school/
• Classroom 2.0
• Master List of Web 2.0 Tools
• The Web 2.0 Classroom/Six Pillars of an Effective Web 2.0 Classroom
• 21st Century Information Fluency Project

Course Projects and Program Examples

• Virtual School Library Prototype
• Virtual School Library Prototype2
• Word Wall Window
• ITEC How Tos Wiki