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What is Teen Tech Week?
• TTW FAQ:
– Teen Tech Week is a national initiative
sponsored by YALSA and is aimed at
teens, their parents, educators and other
concerned adults. The purpose of Teen
Tech Week is to ensure that teens are
competent and ethical users of digital
media, especially the nonprint resources
offered through libraries, such as e-
books, e-
readers, databases, audiobooks, and
social media.
•
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So, this is a library thing, is it?
• Libraries key destination for teens to gain 21st
century skills
– Multiple studies show that, while young people are
adept at downloading music, or texting with their
friends, the majority lack the digital literacy skills
needed to evaluate the quality and accuracy of
information they find online.
– Technology plays an important role in teen life and
our global economy,” said Young Adult Library
Services Association President Jack Martin. “That
is why libraries across the country are helping
teens build critical digital literacy skills, which
they can use to obtain scholarships; master online
research tools such as databases; manage their
online profiles; and have the analytical tools
needed to compete in a 21st century marketplace.”
• American Library Association Press Release
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What, no books?
• Yes—there are books that feature
technology, as in this video:
http://guides.ccclib.org/teentech
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Sound familiar?
• BYOD or BYOT
– “By allowing kids to bring in their own devices, you
free up school resources for the kids who don‟t
have access,” says Doug Johnson, director of
media and technology for the Mankato Public
School System. (Johnson wrote the book —
literally — on the subject; The Classroom
Teacher‟s Technology Survival Guide is published
[February 2012].) For example, in classrooms that
have a group of four computers, finding time for
all 30 students to use them can be challenging. In
Mankato, 90% of the students have some sort of
wireless-capable device, which leaves only eight
students in a typical class who will need to use the
class computers.
• In Some Cash-Strapped Schools, Kids Bring Their Own
Tech Devices February 3, 2012 | 10:07 AM | By Tina
Barseghian
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Not unknown in Western KY!
• Bring Your Own Device to Graves County
High School
• “. . . we decided to go with Bring Your Own Device
because a lot of our students already bring in
cellphones… smartphones… different types of tablets
into the classroom,” Henderson says. “So we‟re just
thinking, „Why not utilize those?‟”
• So while some schools still discourage students from
bringing personal electronics to class, Henderson says
this fall [2012], students at GCHS will not just bring
their computers and tablets to school, they‟ll connect
to the school‟s network and use them in class.”
– Amanda Henderson, Graves County‟s District Technology
Integration Specialist, as reported by Shelly Baskin for WKMS
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Partnerships in schools?
• Families and Community groups
– Educators sometimes are content to let parents and
families take the initiative in becoming involved in
their children's education. But for a real partnership
to occur, educators must look at ways in which the
school can initiate this involvement. In such a
partnership, the school and the home share
responsibility for children's learning; the relationship
is based on mutual respect and acknowledgment of
the assets and expertise of each member. As an
extension of this partnership, schools can emphasize
a broad base of community involvement. When
schools develop and implement strategies for
promoting effective school-family-community
partnerships, the result is improved learning for all
students and strengthened schools, families, and
communities.
• NCREL Critical Issue: Constructing School Partnerships
with Families and Community Groups
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School and Public Library Partnerships
• Essential Ingredients in Implementing Educational
Reforms and Improving Student Learning?
– View from 2000:
• The development of information technologies has
accelerated the information age through digital
libraries, informational and recreational computer
products, including the many CD-ROM products
and, increasingly, the Internet.
• Only through a shared vision and joint planning process
will the current and future needs of our youth be met.
Cooperative arrangements are in the best interests of
serving youth in the current “Information Age,” helping
prepare them for current and future learning and a high
quality of life. As always, the key that will unlock these
efforts is effective and continuous communication
between all the partners: school and public
librarians, teachers, administrators, and members of
the two boards.
– Shirley Fitzgibbons, School and Public Library Relationships
