21st Century Learners:

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21st Century Learners Digital Natives, Tourists
and Immigrants by Dr. Darlene Bates, San Diego
City Schools Lisa Lee Spicko, Thomson Gale
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Objective

• Heighten awareness of the essential commitment of
  the school board, district administration and
  teaching community to the 21st century learner
• Extends beyond tech infrastructure or online
  access
• Requires professional development
• Seamless integration of online resources in the
  instructional program
• Resources time, people and money

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Session Outline

• Introductory Remarks
• 21st Century Learning
• Case Study San Diego City Schools

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Pop Quiz!

• Collaborate get to know your neighbor!
• 5 words
• Pick one or more words define
• Utilize the resources available to you

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Pop Quiz!

• Blog
• iMovie
• My Access
• Podcasting
• Wiki

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Word 1

• Blog
• short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or
  newsletter) that is frequently updated and
  intended for general public consumption. Blogs
  generally represent the personality of the author
  or the Web site.

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Word 2

• iMovie
• a video editing software that allows users to
  edit their own home movies.

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Word 3

• My Access
• Automated essay-scoring software which analyzes
  more than 300 semantic, syntactic and discourse
  characteristics within five major domains.

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Word 4

• Podcasting
• "iPod" and "broadcasting,"
• a method of publishing files to the Internet,
  allowing users to subscribe to feed and receive
  new files automatically by subscription, usually
  at no cost.

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Word 5

• Wiki
• A Web site or similar online resource which
  allows users to add and edit content
  collectively.

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Reflection

• Were many terms/applications new?
• Describe how you are using any of the
  applications in instruction.
• Insights into 21st century learners?

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New Learners, New Language

• Significant changes in the delivery of
  instruction, process of learning and construction
  of knowledge.
• The evolution of a new literacy

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Focus Students

• Students have changed radically
• 10,000 20,000 hours using digital technology in
  the first 20 years of life
• todays neuroscience tells us that this degree
  of input is almost certain to have caused
  measurable physical change to their brains.
• Marc Prensky
• Overcoming Educators Digital Immigrant Accents
  A Rebuttal
• The Technology Source, May/June 2003

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Focus Students
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Focus Students

• The New Literacy Expose, Employ, Express and
  Ethics on the Internet
• What does it mean to be able to read in an
  information-driven, technology rich world?
• What does it mean to be able to process
  information logically?
• How will we express our ideas?
• What are the changing ethics of the information
  age?
• David Warlick
• Redefining Literacy for the 21st Century
• 2005, Linworth Publishing

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Focus Students
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Generation Tech Teachers

• Digitally native teachers have a good background
  in educational pedagogy to complement their tech
  skills. However, many are clueless about
  effectively integrating or infusing technology
  into the curriculum, despite having technology
  skills sets that exceed those of many experienced
  teachers.
• Mary Alice Anderson
• Start the Year Right with Digitally Native
  Teachers
• Multimedia Internet_at_Schools
• September/October 2005

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Generation Tech Teachers
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Focus Students Teachers

• Should students learn the old ways or teachers
  learn new methods?
• The very fact that the Digital Natives are
  forming such communities suggests that we
  should conceive of the cultural assimilation
  between Digital Natives and Immigrants as a
  mutual process of adaptation rather than a
  one-way street.
• Timothy VanSlyke
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• Some Thoughts from the Generation Gap
• The Technology Source, May/June 2003

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Impact

• 21st century learners bring different
  expectations and perspectives into the classroom
• Teachers are struggling to integrate technology
  in instruction
• The new literacy commands successful management
  of information and evaluation of resources.

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STAR Results California Standardized Testing and
Reporting (STAR)

• Percentage of Students in Grades 2-11 Meeting
  State Standards in English Language Arts and
  Mathematics

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Background

• National and State Initiatives
• 1998-2004
• Information Power Building Partnerships for
  Learning
• American Library Association
• Reinvent Your Schools Library in the Age of
  Technology
• David V. Loertscher
• California Library Act Funding
• How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve
  Standards The Second Colorado Study
• Keith Curry Lance
• Standards and Guidelines for Strong Libraries
• California School Library Association

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Background

• District Initiatives
• 2003-2005 21st Century Skills Program
• Began Research into K-12 Database Resources
• Database Evaluations and Purchase for K-12
  Libraries
• Professional Development K-12
• Collaboration with Library and Teaching Staff
• Proficient Critical Readers
• Instructional Focus on Essential Learning
• Units of Study Expository and Narrative

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Structure and Implementation

• Initial focus on library media center staff
• 2-hour workshops held 10x in Fall 2004
• Minimal outreach to other instructional staff
• Collaboration with classroom teachers
• Day-long PD on resources

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Phase 1 Phase 2
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September 2004 May 2005
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Summary

• Library Staff Only
• Limited awareness
• Low usage in Phase 1
• Collaboration with Classroom Teachers
• Deeper integration in instruction
• Increased usage in Phase 2

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K-5 Instruction on Kids InfoBits
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Fall 2005

• Ongoing commitment to 21st century learners
• Ongoing instruction for Library Media Teachers
• School campus presentations
• Beginning Teacher Support Assessment
• Professional development and training
  opportunities offered for district credit
• Focus on program improvement middle schools

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Wrap-up

• Thank you for your time and attention!
• Eager for your feedback and questions
• Visit us in Thomson Gale booth 902
• Thank you!