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Slides Conference Theme is //**Refresh, Revitalize, Rethink**// //**Keynote Description:**// //**Donna DesRoches and Carlene Walter, collectively known as the Disruptive Innovators, will discuss how social media has redefined the role of the teacher-librarian. The keynote will focus on the global connections, conversations, and sharing that these new technologies enable thus refreshing, revitalizing, rethinking, and retooling teacher-librarians in order to guide students more meaningfully in their inquiry and reading to build deep knowledge and understanding.**// > - School Libraries of the past versus school libraries today - Our purpose new internet - social media - changed our working and learning environment providing an incredible opportunity to **Reimagine**-**Refresh-Revitalize-Rethink** > - Refer to Horizon Report > - Ubiquitous - Mobile computing - e.g. one-to-one programs > - New curricula - Saskatchewan > - Teaching practices - e.g. UbD; DI; Inquiry; NETS > - In our roles as teachers, collaborators, information managers and instructional leaders? - In our role as learner? - > - Cognitive apprenticeship - we are all trying to make sense of our world - we are all learners - (check this out further) > - importance of PLNs > - can’t afford to remain isolated... locally, provincially, nationally > - Teaching is no longer a private venture > - Global projects e.g. Julie and Vicki -information literacy - Kim Cofino > - Take what they offer.... add to our own knowledge > - Stats about information overload media type="custom" key="7218737"
 * 1) Introduce Ourselves
 * 2) Donna: Photo Slide (?) - 2 major turning points - refresh points in my career 1)Pearson ’83 2)Introduction to Social Media 2005
 * 3) Carlene: Disruptive turning points 1) first year teaching - sent to workshop entitled "The Information Highway" 2) Educational Technology Masters 2003
 * 4) Describe Our Vision For Today
 * 1) 20th c brought world to our community - 21st c takes the community to the worls
 * 2) **-** We are looking at this through our roles as teacher - manager - instructional leader
 * 3) Immediate and constant access
 * 1) New educational research and practices
 * 1) Production - everyone can create, upload, share
 * 2) Choice (product, content)
 * 3) Difference in how we deliver PD - (Doug Johnson and ASLA and NETS) - it has to have roots - tech is like the flower but you need the roots
 * 4) capabilities of the new iPod
 * 5) smart phones
 * 6) What does this mean for TLs?
 * 1) As learner...no longer isolated part of a larger community
 * 1) Larger community... beyond TLs
 * 1) Three questions from David Warlick
 * 2) What does learning look like when networking enables us to facilitate multiple channels of conversation that transcend classroom walls, school campuses, and bell schedules?
 * 3) What does learning look like when digital information has less to do with something to be taught, and more to do with providing learners with information raw materials that they can shape, mix, and remix to construct their own learning?
 * 4) And what does learning look like — for that matter, what does it mean to be educated — when we have increasingly ubiquitous access to increasingly abundant amounts information?
 * 5) Our Role as Teacher - Provide some stats about key areas that impact TLs
 * 1) Reading - in an era of social media
 * 2) - reading (e-books, reading online... bookstores closing e.g. Book and Briar)
 * 3) e-books - personalization - recommendations (Amazon) - we need to START!
 * 4) struggling keeping up with fan fiction - now can immediately download -students reading on laptops
 * 5) potential for currency
 * 6) immediacy - frustration if cannot get the 'book' they want right away
 * 7) expository text (non-fiction)
 * 8) amazon sells more ebook than print now...
 * 9) audio books -
 * 10) procedures
 * 11) downloading
 * 12) paying/accounting
 * 13) circulating
 * 14) cataloging
 * 15) Sharing - eg. Shelfari... GoodReads....LibraryThing
 * 16) active reading - leave tracks - all the social media that allow us to do so - while reading.... (teaching kids how to be active readers with the tools)
 * 17) what do our kids need to know to read online - navigate online text - hyper links, voice overs - share out thoughts with a global audience
 * 18) allows for individual connections - allows for other people thoughts to become a part of the reading at the appropriate time - just in time information
 * 19) Book Trailers.... taking ownership for own learning - sharing with others - not just to the teacher..
 * 20) Information Literacy - training information (1980 information explosion comparison)
 * 21) Exponential growth of information - find chart from 1990’s
 * 22) Digital Citizenship, Information integrity, Creativity - comes to the forefront
 * 23) Recognizing and planning for information needs
 * 24) social media
 * 25) use many tools - can make sense of it -- but others find it difficult and confusing...
 * 26) these tools can help us stream information to us when we need it
 * 27) Discovery learning.... choice -
 * 28) managing resources and facility
 * 29) -virtual online libraries - important because - 24/7 access (not carrying the backpack full of books)
 * 30) managing space - production center concept - learning commons idea
 * 31) Our role as instructional leaders
 * 32) Teachers as designers of instruction (Sharon Friesen)
 * 33) Teachers connecting with curriculum
 * 34) 21st C skill involves improved curricular connections for students' self learning
 * 35) intervention at times important to the teachers
 * 36) the tool is not important but the big ideas behind information consuming and production
 * 37) what happens when your 'container' goes away - how do you easily move to another....
 * 38) Our role as a learner - we are all learners - we have to have the 'inquiry stance'.
 * 39) we have to open our mind before we open the library (Carlene Walter)