Libraries for future learners: one day conference to inspire, connect and inform teacher librarians and school leaders thinking about future learning needs. This presentation was a keynote conversation starter to open up a wide range of topics for other presentations and workshop activities sharing examplars, tools and strategies related to future learning. Held at Rydges World Square, Sydney.
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
Game-based learning and academic integrityJudy O'Connell
Through a new subject added to anacademic program which commenced in 2014 at Charles Sturt University, further strategies have been explored to support subject engagement and assessment design. The contribution of global connectedness for embedding academic integrity through social scholarship was an essential feature of the curriculum and learning experience.
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
Digital Scholarship powered by reflection and reflective practice through the...Judy O'Connell
Current online information environments and the associated social and pedagogical transactions within them create an important information ecosystem that can and should influence and shape the professional engagement and digital scholarship within our learning communities in the higher education sector. Thanks to advances in technology, the powerful tools at our disposal to help students understand and learn in unique ways are enabling new ways of producing, searching and sharing information and knowledge. By leveraging technology, we have the opportunity to open new doors to scholarly inquiry for ourselves and our students. While practical recommendations for a wide variety of ways of working with current online technologies are easily marketed and readily adopted, there is insufficient connection to digital scholarship practices in the creation of meaning and knowledge through more traditional approaches to the ‘portfolio’. In this context, a review of the portfolio integration into degree programs under review in the School of Information Studies led to an update of the portfolio approach in the professional experience subject to an extended and embedded e-portfolio integrated throughout the subject and program experience. This was done to support a strong connection between digital scholarship, community engagement, personal reflection and professional reflexive practices. In 2013 the School of Information Studies established CSU Thinkspace, a branded Wordpress solution from Campus Press, to better serve the multiple needs and learning strategies identified for the Master of Education programs. The aim was to use a product that replicates the authentic industry standard tools used in schools today, and to model the actual ways in which these same teachers can also work in digital environments with their own students or in their own professional interactions. This paper will review how the ePortfolio now provides reflective knowledge construction, self-directed learning, and facilitate habits of lifelong learning within their professional capabilities.
Referred published as part of the EPortolios Forum, Sydney, 2016.
Digital Learning Environments: A multidisciplinary focus on 21st century lear...Judy O'Connell
As a result of an extensive curriculum review a new multi-disciplinary degree programme in education and information studies was developed to uniquely facilitate educators’ capacity to be responsive to the demands
of a digitally connected world. Charles Sturt University’s Master of Education (Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation) aims to develop agile leaders in new cultures of digital formal and informal learning. By examining key features and influences of global connectedness,
information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, students are provided with the opportunity to reflect on their professional practice in a networked learning community, and to improve learning and teaching in digital environments.
School libraries are at the heart of a new digital learning nexus. Our world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. The challenges we face are equally creative as they are complex. What is your focus for tomorrow?
Building a Vibrant Future for School Librarians through Online Conversations ...Judy O'Connell
Technology and social media platforms are driving an unprecedented reorganization of the learning environment in and beyond schools around the world. Technology provides us leadership challenges and at the same time offers opportunities for communication and learning through technology channels to support professional development. School librarians and teacher librarians are often working as the sole information practitioner in their school, and need to stay in touch with others beyond their own school to develop their personal professional capacity to lead within their school. The Australian Teacher Librarian Network aims to make a difference, and supports school library staff in Australia and around the world to build professional networks and personal learning connections, offering an open and free exchange of ideas, strategies and resources to build collegiality. This ongoing professional conversation through online and social media channels is an important way to connect, communicate and collaborate in building a vibrant future for school librarians.
Library 2.014 Leadership in a Connected AgeJudy O'Connell
Teacher librarians and school libraries play a vital role in their school communities by meeting the change, challenge and productive chaos of the Web front on!
Literature in digital environments: Changes and emerging trends in Australian...Judy O'Connell
Igniting a passion for reading and research is core business for school libraries, inevitably placing the library at the centre of the 21st century reading and learning experience. It is in this context that digital literature creates some challenging questions for teachers and librarians in schools, while the emergence of digital technology and/or device options also offers a great many opportunities. Collection development in school libraries encompasses an understanding of the need to contextualise these e-literature needs within the learning and teaching experiences in the school. The Australian Library and Information Association’s 2013 statement Future of collections 50:50 predicted that library print and ebook collections in libraries would establish a 50:50 equilibrium by 2020 and that this balance would be maintained for the foreseeable future. This statement from the Australian professional body raised the need to know more about e-collections in school libraries. For teacher librarians in Australian schools, the nature of online collections, and the integration of ebooks into the evolving reading culture is influenced by the range and diversity of texts, interfaces, devices, and experiences available to complement existing print and media collections or services. Management and budget constraints also influence e-collections. By undertaking a review of the literature, a discussion of the education context, and a critical analysis of the trends evidenced by national survey data, this paper presents an overview of the changes and emerging trends in digital literature and ebook collections in school library services in Australia today.
Game-based learning and academic integrityJudy O'Connell
Through a new subject added to anacademic program which commenced in 2014 at Charles Sturt University, further strategies have been explored to support subject engagement and assessment design. The contribution of global connectedness for embedding academic integrity through social scholarship was an essential feature of the curriculum and learning experience.
Rethinking Learning in the Age of Digital FluencyJudy O'Connell
Digital connectivity is a transformative phenomenon of the 21st century. While many have debated its impact on society, educators have been quick to mandate technology in school development - often without analysing the digital fluency of those involved, and the actual impact on learning. Is being digitally tethered creating a new learning nexus for those involved?
Digital Scholarship powered by reflection and reflective practice through the...Judy O'Connell
Current online information environments and the associated social and pedagogical transactions within them create an important information ecosystem that can and should influence and shape the professional engagement and digital scholarship within our learning communities in the higher education sector. Thanks to advances in technology, the powerful tools at our disposal to help students understand and learn in unique ways are enabling new ways of producing, searching and sharing information and knowledge. By leveraging technology, we have the opportunity to open new doors to scholarly inquiry for ourselves and our students. While practical recommendations for a wide variety of ways of working with current online technologies are easily marketed and readily adopted, there is insufficient connection to digital scholarship practices in the creation of meaning and knowledge through more traditional approaches to the ‘portfolio’. In this context, a review of the portfolio integration into degree programs under review in the School of Information Studies led to an update of the portfolio approach in the professional experience subject to an extended and embedded e-portfolio integrated throughout the subject and program experience. This was done to support a strong connection between digital scholarship, community engagement, personal reflection and professional reflexive practices. In 2013 the School of Information Studies established CSU Thinkspace, a branded Wordpress solution from Campus Press, to better serve the multiple needs and learning strategies identified for the Master of Education programs. The aim was to use a product that replicates the authentic industry standard tools used in schools today, and to model the actual ways in which these same teachers can also work in digital environments with their own students or in their own professional interactions. This paper will review how the ePortfolio now provides reflective knowledge construction, self-directed learning, and facilitate habits of lifelong learning within their professional capabilities.
Referred published as part of the EPortolios Forum, Sydney, 2016.
Digital Learning Environments: A multidisciplinary focus on 21st century lear...Judy O'Connell
As a result of an extensive curriculum review a new multi-disciplinary degree programme in education and information studies was developed to uniquely facilitate educators’ capacity to be responsive to the demands
of a digitally connected world. Charles Sturt University’s Master of Education (Knowledge Networks and Digital Innovation) aims to develop agile leaders in new cultures of digital formal and informal learning. By examining key features and influences of global connectedness,
information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, students are provided with the opportunity to reflect on their professional practice in a networked learning community, and to improve learning and teaching in digital environments.
School libraries are at the heart of a new digital learning nexus. Our world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. The challenges we face are equally creative as they are complex. What is your focus for tomorrow?
Building a Vibrant Future for School Librarians through Online Conversations ...Judy O'Connell
Technology and social media platforms are driving an unprecedented reorganization of the learning environment in and beyond schools around the world. Technology provides us leadership challenges and at the same time offers opportunities for communication and learning through technology channels to support professional development. School librarians and teacher librarians are often working as the sole information practitioner in their school, and need to stay in touch with others beyond their own school to develop their personal professional capacity to lead within their school. The Australian Teacher Librarian Network aims to make a difference, and supports school library staff in Australia and around the world to build professional networks and personal learning connections, offering an open and free exchange of ideas, strategies and resources to build collegiality. This ongoing professional conversation through online and social media channels is an important way to connect, communicate and collaborate in building a vibrant future for school librarians.
Library 2.014 Leadership in a Connected AgeJudy O'Connell
Teacher librarians and school libraries play a vital role in their school communities by meeting the change, challenge and productive chaos of the Web front on!
The digital revolution has given us a world of global connectedness, information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, giving teachers the opportunity to hone their professional practice through their networked learning community. What do you do to make it so?
How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015?
Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?
Leadership in a connected age: Change, challenge and productive chaos!Judy O'Connell
We cannot hold back the forces of change. The 21st century leader recognises that without keeping an eye on the future we may be doomed to remaining a prisoner of the past. With this eye on the future, the agile leader welcomes innovation, embraces change and thrives on chaos. What skills are necessary to survive in the future? What do you need to do today? Trends in knowledge construction, participatory cultures and social networks can give us the blueprint to successful leadership in our connected age. SchoolsTechOZ Conference, 5 September 2014. http://www.iwb.net.au/
The Modern Digital Learning Landscape: 5 Tips To Engage Gen Z and Millennial ...Aggregage
If 2020 hasn’t radically changed your approach to your learning program, it’s time to get in the digital learning game or risk being left behind. But if you’re searching for current, new ways to engage people online and keep your business thriving, look to your youngest learners. In the next 5 years, Millennials will comprise 75% of the workforce, and Gen Z is right behind them. To future-proof your learning program, make sure your content is designed with these young professional learners in mind.
Web 2.0 allows students and educators to create and interact both synchronously and asynchronously, formally or informally, at school, at home, in distance education programs, in the workplace, on all manner of devices. This shift has required an open mind about future possibilities, while also documenting innovative or exemplar practices and their relationship to curriculum. Now Web 3.0 heralds a further development in online information behaviours and knowledge discovery techniques. Are we keeping up-to-date with the relevant network and social media changes that are affecting the online learning environment that we wish to embrace? Can you spot the wolf in sheep’s clothing? This was a short presentation and discussion starter. Dowload the supporting document via the QRcode on the title screen.
Social Media, Social Networking and School Libraries.Judy O'Connell
Social networking is a participatory medium that is changing the very nature of our professional connections, our community practices and the nature of learning interactions in these environments. It has become essential for teacher librarians to become professionally competent social media use to be able learn, teach, and communicate in 21st century environments
Educators are increasingly using new media and digital technologies to teach and engage their 21st century students. Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, augmented reality, and Web 3.0 are all part of the new digital frontiers. Whether it’s science or science fiction, Alice in Wonderland or Angry Birds, the dynamics of this new information ecology are transforming learning experiences in our schools. We can lead this learning revolution by ensuring that our library and the learning ecology we create can harness these new environments. How we do this, will determine our success and the future relevance and importance of our school libraries.
learning in a networked world: the role of social media and augmented learning.
Keynote presentation to the New Educator Program Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning 23-25 August 2011
Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC): Determining Identity and Ju...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2020. “Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC): Determining Identity and Judging Credibility in Digital Spaces.” Presented at VALA, February 11, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
The digital revolution has given us a world of global connectedness, information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, giving teachers the opportunity to hone their professional practice through their networked learning community. What do you do to make it so?
How will education libraries best serve their communities in 2015?
Why do we need to organise information more effectively? How do we incorporate the evolving semantic web environments? In a world of API and big data, libraries (and in particular school libraries) are faced with a significant ‘conceptual’ challenge. The new RDA cataloguing standard will substantively influence and then change information organization, focusing on users, access and interoperability. Search interfaces will be the key. We’re not dealing with records anymore. We are working with interrelated nodes of data. Are you prepared?
Leadership in a connected age: Change, challenge and productive chaos!Judy O'Connell
We cannot hold back the forces of change. The 21st century leader recognises that without keeping an eye on the future we may be doomed to remaining a prisoner of the past. With this eye on the future, the agile leader welcomes innovation, embraces change and thrives on chaos. What skills are necessary to survive in the future? What do you need to do today? Trends in knowledge construction, participatory cultures and social networks can give us the blueprint to successful leadership in our connected age. SchoolsTechOZ Conference, 5 September 2014. http://www.iwb.net.au/
The Modern Digital Learning Landscape: 5 Tips To Engage Gen Z and Millennial ...Aggregage
If 2020 hasn’t radically changed your approach to your learning program, it’s time to get in the digital learning game or risk being left behind. But if you’re searching for current, new ways to engage people online and keep your business thriving, look to your youngest learners. In the next 5 years, Millennials will comprise 75% of the workforce, and Gen Z is right behind them. To future-proof your learning program, make sure your content is designed with these young professional learners in mind.
Web 2.0 allows students and educators to create and interact both synchronously and asynchronously, formally or informally, at school, at home, in distance education programs, in the workplace, on all manner of devices. This shift has required an open mind about future possibilities, while also documenting innovative or exemplar practices and their relationship to curriculum. Now Web 3.0 heralds a further development in online information behaviours and knowledge discovery techniques. Are we keeping up-to-date with the relevant network and social media changes that are affecting the online learning environment that we wish to embrace? Can you spot the wolf in sheep’s clothing? This was a short presentation and discussion starter. Dowload the supporting document via the QRcode on the title screen.
Social Media, Social Networking and School Libraries.Judy O'Connell
Social networking is a participatory medium that is changing the very nature of our professional connections, our community practices and the nature of learning interactions in these environments. It has become essential for teacher librarians to become professionally competent social media use to be able learn, teach, and communicate in 21st century environments
Educators are increasingly using new media and digital technologies to teach and engage their 21st century students. Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, augmented reality, and Web 3.0 are all part of the new digital frontiers. Whether it’s science or science fiction, Alice in Wonderland or Angry Birds, the dynamics of this new information ecology are transforming learning experiences in our schools. We can lead this learning revolution by ensuring that our library and the learning ecology we create can harness these new environments. How we do this, will determine our success and the future relevance and importance of our school libraries.
learning in a networked world: the role of social media and augmented learning.
Keynote presentation to the New Educator Program Hedley Beare Centre for Teaching and Learning 23-25 August 2011
Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC): Determining Identity and Ju...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni. 2020. “Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC): Determining Identity and Judging Credibility in Digital Spaces.” Presented at VALA, February 11, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
Presented at LOEX 2017 with Trudi Jacobson
Librarians and faculty members from three institutions collaborated to adapt a metaliteracy Digital Citizen badge for use with graduate literacy education students. The multi-faceted goal is not only for these students to affirm their roles as digital citizens, but also to actively teach and model such citizenship to their prospective students. This grant-funded project, which adapts content from an existing metaliteracy badging system, incorporates mechanisms to encourage a community of users, and serves as a model for collaborations with faculty across various disciplines.
In this session, project collaborators will briefly introduce metaliteracy (metaliteracy.org), provide an overview of the badging system (metaliteracybadges.org), and discuss the components added for this project, and mechanisms that worked well for collaborating. We are not only concerned with collaboration within the grant team; we also built components that will encourage educators to create open access learning objects for an Educators Corner and an Educators Conference.
Drawing from expertise as co-creators and researchers in initiatives such as the new ACRL Information Literacy Framework and the Connecting Credentials (connectingcredentials.org) and Global Learning Qualifications Frameworks (funded by the Lumina Foundation), we have worked together to create a robust resource that will be available to every SUNY institution, and, ultimately, to interested institutions beyond SUNY. We encourage participants to actively engage in the presentation by contributing ideas for badging opportunities based on your own professional development and curricular goals to an open forum in the Educators Corner.
Building Dialogical Collections and ScholarshipSharon Leon
A talk for AHA 2016 about bringing the public history methods of dialogue and collaboration to digital history scholarship in the academic research realm
Engaging students through social learningLisa Harris
Keynote for British Council / Microsoft Deep Learning Event, Kuala Lumpur, May 2015
http://www.britishcouncil.my/events/asean-deep-learning-policy-series
This presentation was provided by Joan Lippincott of The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), during Session Eight of the NISO training series "Assessment Practices and Metrics in a 21st Century Pandemic," held on November 6, 2020.
Promoting Metaliteracy and Metacognition in Collaborative Teaching and LearningTom Mackey
Trudi Jacobson and Tom Mackey present on metaliteracy as part of a panel at the NOLA Information Literacy Collective on Friday, August 11, 2017. This virtual presentation defines metaliteracy, discusses the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education, and examines the metaliteracy learning goals and objectives. Specific metaliteracy related projects such as the competency based digital badging system and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are examined as well.
Presentation to the NZ School Trustees Association annual conference, Dunedin, 12 July 2019. Exploring the drivers of change and the responses required of educators and the schooling system to ensure our learners are 'future ready' as they leave school.
A lot of talk about the future of the internet sounds almost hippie-spiritual or faux-philosophical. The Internet is not the same as the world-wide-web. But the Internet-of-Things and the Semantic Web - all parts of Web 3.0, are beginning to be very important to our learning environments. Here is a summary of key features, ranging from access, creativity, and information architecture.
Eduwebinar: Our Everyday Tools for SuccessJudy O'Connell
The digital revolution has given us a world of global connectedness, information organisation, communication and participatory cultures of learning, giving teachers the opportunity to hone their professional practice through their networked learning community. What do you do to make it so?
This degree is designed to develop agile leaders in new cultures of digital formal and informal learning, with flexible program options in knowledge networking, global information flow, advanced search techniques, learning analytics, social media, game-based learning, digital literature, learning spaces design and more. Ideal for educators, school leaders, ICT integrators, teacher librarians, instructional designers, learning support specialists and teacher educators, who are seeking to develop expertise in global and community networked knowledge environments.
Learning in a Changing World: Racing against TimeJudy O'Connell
Are you racing against time to update your capacity to engage with established and emerging technology? This presentation is a discussion starter for the ALIA schools seminar Learning in a Changing World.
Are you ready to consider gaming in your curriculum? This presentation is a discussion starter for the ALIA schools seminar Learning in a Changing World.
Resistance is Futile: The dynamics of the Science CollectiveJudy O'Connell
Educators are increasingly using new media and digital technologies to teach and engage their 21st century students. Reading, writing, gaming, trans-media, immersive worlds, augmented reality, and Web 3.0 are all part of the new digital frontiers. Whether it’s science or science fiction, Alice in Wonderland or Angry Birds, the dynamics of this new information ecology can transform science classroom experiences. Assimilate these ideas, tools and techniques into your ‘collective’ ~ Resistance is futile.
Remix Culture as a Professional and Creative HabitJudy O'Connell
Let's talk for 10 minutes about creativity, creative commons, and working with images in online spaces. Whether it's blogging, creating presentations teachers need to be able to work quickly, with excitement, and be able to model design and management principles.
Revolutionising Libraries with Social MediaJudy O'Connell
With the emergence of tools such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, wikis, LinkedIn, virtual worlds and more, it has become important to offer a more customer-driven, socially rich and collaborative model of service and content delivery from our libraries.
Social media has few barriers. It's not about budget or acquiring the necessary tools.
What we need are experienced social media staff who can lead our libraries into participatory environments for the benefit of all.
Here you will find many key links and resources to support the workshop Revolutionising Libraries.
Learning without Frontiers: School libraries and meta-literacy in actionJudy O'Connell
Since their establishment school libraries have been instrumental in language and writing, showcasing and empowering the best in good reading and research immersion for their students. Now the best minds on our planet are suggesting that the Internet and the technology tools it has spawned will continue to be arguably the most influential invention of our time. With the maturation of the web we now use and interpret multiple kinds of literacy which are embedded in multimodal texts. Because of it we have found ourselves in the midst of highly dynamic and dramatically changing literacy learning landscapes – new frontiers populated by a plethora of mind matters as diverse as Alice in Wonderland, Angry Birds, Audioboo and Augmented Reality.
So you think you can curate resources, nurture literacy and teach in this new information ecology? Don your dark glasses and be prepared for the ride of your (professional) life in Learning without frontiers. This presentation will explore how teacher librarians can bind together teaching, emerging technologies, and the growing number of literacies to promote information-rich meta-literacy media environments suitable for 21st century school libraries.
The Next Big Thing is Web 3.0. Catch It If You Can Judy O'Connell
The best minds on our planet are suggesting that the Internet will continue to be arguably the most influential invention of our time. We are in the midst of a highly dynamic and dramatically changing landscape. Where Web 1.0 made us consumers of information, Web 2.0 allowed us to be participators and creators. Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web technologies are beginning to play a larger and more significant role in the search and filtering of the content fire hose that teachers and students encounter each day. How will the semantic web influence our learning and teaching encounters on the web? What is the connection between meaning and data? Will search or discovery be the main driving force in the 3.0 information revolution? How will information and knowledge creation in a semantic-powered online world develop? This session will draw on Semantic Web research and developments and show how connecting, collaborating and networking in a Web 3.0 world is changing the ground-rules once again.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
Ethnobotany and Ethnopharmacology:
Ethnobotany in herbal drug evaluation,
Impact of Ethnobotany in traditional medicine,
New development in herbals,
Bio-prospecting tools for drug discovery,
Role of Ethnopharmacology in drug evaluation,
Reverse Pharmacology.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Students, digital devices and success - Andreas Schleicher - 27 May 2024..pptxEduSkills OECD
Andreas Schleicher presents at the OECD webinar ‘Digital devices in schools: detrimental distraction or secret to success?’ on 27 May 2024. The presentation was based on findings from PISA 2022 results and the webinar helped launch the PISA in Focus ‘Managing screen time: How to protect and equip students against distraction’ https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/managing-screen-time_7c225af4-en and the OECD Education Policy Perspective ‘Students, digital devices and success’ can be found here - https://oe.cd/il/5yV
The Art Pastor's Guide to Sabbath | Steve ThomasonSteve Thomason
What is the purpose of the Sabbath Law in the Torah. It is interesting to compare how the context of the law shifts from Exodus to Deuteronomy. Who gets to rest, and why?
The Roman Empire A Historical Colossus.pdfkaushalkr1407
The Roman Empire, a vast and enduring power, stands as one of history's most remarkable civilizations, leaving an indelible imprint on the world. It emerged from the Roman Republic, transitioning into an imperial powerhouse under the leadership of Augustus Caesar in 27 BCE. This transformation marked the beginning of an era defined by unprecedented territorial expansion, architectural marvels, and profound cultural influence.
The empire's roots lie in the city of Rome, founded, according to legend, by Romulus in 753 BCE. Over centuries, Rome evolved from a small settlement to a formidable republic, characterized by a complex political system with elected officials and checks on power. However, internal strife, class conflicts, and military ambitions paved the way for the end of the Republic. Julius Caesar’s dictatorship and subsequent assassination in 44 BCE created a power vacuum, leading to a civil war. Octavian, later Augustus, emerged victorious, heralding the Roman Empire’s birth.
Under Augustus, the empire experienced the Pax Romana, a 200-year period of relative peace and stability. Augustus reformed the military, established efficient administrative systems, and initiated grand construction projects. The empire's borders expanded, encompassing territories from Britain to Egypt and from Spain to the Euphrates. Roman legions, renowned for their discipline and engineering prowess, secured and maintained these vast territories, building roads, fortifications, and cities that facilitated control and integration.
The Roman Empire’s society was hierarchical, with a rigid class system. At the top were the patricians, wealthy elites who held significant political power. Below them were the plebeians, free citizens with limited political influence, and the vast numbers of slaves who formed the backbone of the economy. The family unit was central, governed by the paterfamilias, the male head who held absolute authority.
Culturally, the Romans were eclectic, absorbing and adapting elements from the civilizations they encountered, particularly the Greeks. Roman art, literature, and philosophy reflected this synthesis, creating a rich cultural tapestry. Latin, the Roman language, became the lingua franca of the Western world, influencing numerous modern languages.
Roman architecture and engineering achievements were monumental. They perfected the arch, vault, and dome, constructing enduring structures like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and aqueducts. These engineering marvels not only showcased Roman ingenuity but also served practical purposes, from public entertainment to water supply.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Welcome to TechSoup New Member Orientation and Q&A (May 2024).pdfTechSoup
In this webinar you will learn how your organization can access TechSoup's wide variety of product discount and donation programs. From hardware to software, we'll give you a tour of the tools available to help your nonprofit with productivity, collaboration, financial management, donor tracking, security, and more.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
This is a presentation by Dada Robert in a Your Skill Boost masterclass organised by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan (EFSS) on Saturday, the 25th and Sunday, the 26th of May 2024.
He discussed the concept of quality improvement, emphasizing its applicability to various aspects of life, including personal, project, and program improvements. He defined quality as doing the right thing at the right time in the right way to achieve the best possible results and discussed the concept of the "gap" between what we know and what we do, and how this gap represents the areas we need to improve. He explained the scientific approach to quality improvement, which involves systematic performance analysis, testing and learning, and implementing change ideas. He also highlighted the importance of client focus and a team approach to quality improvement.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
TESDA TM1 REVIEWER FOR NATIONAL ASSESSMENT WRITTEN AND ORAL QUESTIONS WITH A...
Pedagogy and School Libraries: Developing agile approaches in a digital age
1. FACULTY OF EDUCATION CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY
Pedagogy and School Libraries
Judy O’Connell
9 October, 2015
Developing Agile Approaches in a Digital Age
flickr photo by clappstar http://flickr.com/photos/clappstar/5759395358 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
8. Eisenstadt (a Gutenberg scholar): the book did not take
on its own form until 50 years after it was invented by
Gutenberg. Printing was originally called "automatic
handwriting." [horseless carriage]
9. The Web at 25+
Overall verdict:
The internet has been a plus for society and an
especially good thing for individual users
http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/02/27/the-web-at-25-in-the-u-s/
14. 21 C teacher librarian
flickr photo by giulia.forsythe http://flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/10310176123 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license
15. not just a
discussion
about selfies
Robert Cornelius in 1839, believed to be the world's first selfie. Photograph: Library of Congress
digital footprint
16. chirp! a plant watering alarm
drone pilot locates missing 82-year-old man after three day search
not just a
about our
technology
man accused of murder asked Siri where to hide the body
living replica of Vincent Van Goh’s ear
18. Thomas, D., & Brown, J. S. (2011). A new culture of learning: Cultivating the
imagination for a world of constant change (Vol. 219). Lexington, KY: CreateSpace.
“Information absorption is a
cultural and social process of
engaging with the constantly
changing world around us”. p47
19. When you stand at the door of your library
and look inside, do you see your school
library dream?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/planolibrary/3382581338/
20. What does your library look like, sound like,
and feel like - to your school community?
cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo by heyjudegallery: http://flickr.com/photos/heyjude/480675657/
21. 7 Things You Should Know About Makerspaces. (2013, April 1). Retrieved June 8, 2015, from https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7095.pdf
Awesome effect!
24. In talking about school libraries and the
essential paradigm shift that is taking place,
Stanley (2011) highlights three areas of
influence:
Information fluency — using search engines
effectively; evaluating online information;
collaborating in virtual environments, and
delivering material resources online.
Digital citizenship — understanding
responsible and ethical use of information, and
maintaining safe online practices.
Digital storytelling — reading, writing and
listening to books in many formats; creating,
collaborating and sharing in a range of
mediums.
Digital influences
Stanley. D.B. (2011). Change has arrived for school libraries, School Library Monthly, 27 (4)4, 45–47.
25. Media literacy
nature and role of subliminal media effects
“The entire process is fundamentally rhetorical:
it concerns the transformation of an audience”
McLuhan, E., & McLuhan, M. (2011). Theories of communication. Peter Lang.
flickr photo by Striking Photography by Bo Insogna http://flickr.com/photos/thelightningman/4888770222 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license
26. Digital literacy
“reading and writing in a digital environment, in order
to position where the literacy action is taking place
and that it can be authentic, multimodal, far
reaching, multi-tool, and code interdependent”
Chase, Z., & Laufenberg, D. (2011). Digital literacies: Embracing the squishiness of digital
literacy. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 54(7), 535–537
27. transliteracy is not about learning
text literacy and visual literacy
and digital literacy in isolation
from one another but about the
interaction of these literacies
Transliteracy
28. Information literacy
“the evolution of Web 2.0 and the revolution of social
media and social networking requires a fundamental
shift in how we think about information literacy”
Mackey, T. P., & Jacobson, T. E. (2014). Metaliteracy: reinventing information
literacy to empower learners. American Library Association.
29. comprehensive examination
approach to metacognition,
multiple intelligence theory, multi-
literacies, multiple literacies,
transliteracy, convergence and
multimodal literacy.
Metaliteracy
30. …..or any other bunch
of new literacies -
they really matter!
31. Heuristics for
instructional design!
Each of these has a common purpose to break overall
cognitive development process into parts that can more easily
structure educational processes and goals, and scaffold
learning and individual knowledge development.
32. Davies, A., Fidler, D., & Gorbis, M. (2011). Future work skills 2020.
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
33. Evolving Learning Landscape
Current thinking about 21st century skills, and the learning
experiences that support their development, are essential
starting points for capacity building. A list of the workforce
skills presented by Davies, et al (2011, pp. 8-12) include:
• Sense-making
• Social intelligence
• Novel and adaptive thinking
• Cross-cultural competency
• Computational thinking
• New-media literacy
• Transdisciplinarity
• Design mindset
• Cognitive load management
• Virtual collaboration
http://www.iftf.org/our-work/global-landscape/work/future-work-skills-2020/
34. Sustainable learning involves
a pedagogic fusion between
environments, tools, formats
and meta-literacy capabilities.
(Mackey & Jacobson 2011)
Mackey, T P and Jacobson, T E 2011, ‘Reframing information literacy as a metaliteracy’,
College & Research Libraries, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 62–78.
36. Trends, challenges and
development in technologies
that will influence the future of
schools and libraries
NMC Horizon Reports
Using a modified Delphi process, a panel of 50+ education and technology
experts identify topics very likely to impact technology planning and decision-
making: six key trends, six significant challenges and six important
developments in technology.
37.
38. Long-Term Impact Trends: next five or more years
• Rethinking how schools work
• Shift to deeper learning approaches
Mid-Term Impact Trends: next three to five years
• Increasing use of collaborative learning approaches
• Shift from students as consumers to students as creators
Short-Term Impact Trends: next one to two years
• Increasing use of hybrid/blended learning designs
• Rise of STEAM learning (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics)
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-k-12-edition/
Key Trends Accelerating
K-12 Ed Tech Adoption
unique opportunities for vision and leadership
Implications for Policy, Leadership, or Practice
39. Solvable Challenges: Those which we both understand and know how to solve
• Creating authentic learning opportunities
• Integrating technology in Teacher Education
Difficult Challenges: Those we understand but for which solutions are elusive
• Personalizing learning
• Rethinking the roles of teachers
Wicked Challenges: Those that are complex to even define, much less address
• Scaling teaching innovations
• Teaching complex thinking
Significant Challenges Impeding
K-12 Ed Tech Adoption
Increasing use of collaborative learning approaches
40. Time to Adoption: One Year or Less
• Bring your own device (BYOD)
• Makerspaces
Time to Adoption: Two to Three Years
• 3D printing
• Adaptive learning technologies
Time to Adoption: Four to Five Years
• Digital badges
• Wearable technology
Important developments
Shift of students as consumers to creators
41.
42. Long-Term Impact Trends: next five or more years
• Increasing accessibility of research content
• Rethinking library spaces
Mid-Term Impact Trends: next three to five years
• Evolving nature of scholarly record
• Increasing focus on research data management
Short-Term Impact Trends: next one to two years
• Increasing value of the user experience
• Prioritisation of mobile content delivery
http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-library-edition/
Key Trends Accelerating
Library Ed Tech Adoption
Implications for Policy, Leadership, or Practice
43. Solvable Challenges: Those which we both understand and know how to solve
• Embedding academic and research libraries in the curriculum
• Improving digital literacy
Difficult Challenges: Those we understand but for which solutions are elusive
• Competition from alternative avenues of discovery
• Rethinking the roles and skills of librarians
Wicked Challenges: Those that are complex to even define, much less address
• Embracing the need for radical change
• Managing knowledge obsolescence
Significant Challenges Impeding
Library Ed Tech Adoption
Evaluating digital services through user experience
44. Time-to-Adoption: One Year or Less
• Makerspaces
• Online learning
Time-to-adoption: Two to Three Years
• Information vizualisation
• Semantic web and linked data
Time-to-adoption: Four to Five Years
• Location intelligence
• Machine learning
Important developments
Growth of mobile technology and embedded curriculum
46. flickr photo by chrisfurniss http://flickr.com/photos/chrisfurniss/5554098017 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
47.
48.
49. Learning today requires that education
is built on all kinds of reading and
connected information seeking
50. creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by kassemmounhem: http://flickr.com/photos/122638947@N08/13889171653
Learning today requires apps, devices,
information access, data repositories
sharing, networks and communication.
51. The digital age student who
can think critically, learn
through connections, create
knowledge and understand
concepts should be able to
actively participate in a
digitally enhanced society.
creative commons licensed (BY-NC-SA) flickr photo by kassemmounhem: http://flickr.com/photos/122638947@N08/13889171653
54. How should you, your library
AND technology connect?
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo by fatboyke (Luc): http://flickr.com/photos/fatboyke/2984569992/
55. More content, streams of data,
topic structures, (theoretically)
better quality - all of these in
online environments
require an equivalent shift in our
online capabilities.
56. 56
“the first search result is clicked on twice as
much as the second, and the second twice
as much as the third”. Dan Russell, Google’s usability chief
cc
licensed
(
BY
NC
SD
)
flickr
photo
by
ecsta=cist:
h?p://flickr.com/photos/ecsta=cist/3722475127/
57. 57
cc
licensed
(
BY
NC
)
flickr
photo
by
Cayusa:
h?p://flickr.com/photos/cayusa/1444806159/
58. ..... because your knowledge and
my knowledge, based on what
search results we are served,
may be very different from each
other. Siva
Vaidhyanathan
in
The
Googlization
of
Everything,
Filter bubble!
59. Rather than simply identifying a useful page, these
systems try to pull the information from those pages
that might be what a user is looking for, and to make
this immediately apparent.
More informative results?
60. What’s the
story with the
yellow blotch?
SearchReSearch blog
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/
A blog about search, search skills, teaching search, learning how to search, learning how to
use Google effectively, learning how to do research. It also covers a good deal of sensemaking
and information foraging.
61. For several years people have
been fascinated by small, robot-
like figures popping up in city
streets and other innocuous
places. These figures, now
documented in flickr pools and
blog posts from cities arose the
world, can be attributed to
Stikman (sometimes searched for
and referred to as "stickman"), an
anonymous graffiti artist,
sometimes perhaps going by the
alias "Bob," who has been putting
these images up since at least
2006.
http://searchresearch1.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/wednesday-search-challenge-11613-whats.html
Search for 'painted
yellow man robot'
yielded 'stickman' for a
better explanation.
About 3 minutes
Reply
62. Agile approaches to your library
environments
Let’s talk about my favourites!
h?p://www.flickr.com/photos/tjt195/501975860/
63. When your formative years are spent working your fingers
through apps and iPads, smartphones and YouTube, the
digital world and its habits can bend and shape not just
how you access information, but how you
conceptualiseinformation discovery!
h?p://www.flickr.com/photos/tjt195/501975860/
64. Google Knowledge Graph
When you search, you’re not just
looking for a webpage.
You’re looking to get answers,
understand or explore.
Google alerts too!
65. Learn about the latest
additions to search so as to
get the most out of Google.
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/howsearchworks/
thestory/index.html
73. Personal learning environment –
relying on the people we connect
with through social networks and
collaborative tools e.g. Twitter,
Yammer.
Personal learning network –
knowing where or to whom to
connect and find professional
content
[learning] self
74. Personal web tools – used
for tracking our life and
powering our information
organisation e.g. photos to
Facebook, pictures to Flickr,
photos to Twitter
[learning] self
75. Microblogging
Social bookmarking and tagging
Collaborative writing
Information management – e.g. Endnote, Easybib, Zotero
Information capture on multiple devices – e.g. Evernote
Library resources or databases all used for information
collection, RSS topic and journal alerts, and compatible
with research organisation tools
Online storage for access across multiple platforms
[information] self
76. flickr photo by chrisfurniss http://flickr.com/photos/chrisfurniss/5554098017 shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
How do you get
where you want to
go?
78. The Scout Report is the flagship publication
of the Internet Scout Research Group.
Published every Friday both on the Web and
by email subscription, it provides a fast,
convenient way to stay informed.
https://scout.wisc.edu/
79. http://oztlnet.com/
The OZTL_NET Discussion List is an email-based forum
for information professionals working in Australian schools.
It is supported by the teacher librarianship academic staff at
the School of Information Studies , Charles Sturt University.
Discussion is open to all members of the Australian TL
community and any people with a genuine interest in
teacher librarianship and/or school libraries.
81. I need to search, scan, and
select the best resources I can
find for my own personal
interests, and by making my
choices available to others, I
create a resource for many
besides myself.It’s about knowing, learning,
sharing, and teaching, all in one.
Turn personal interest into a
community of interest
The Solution: Infotention Training
http://www.rheingold.com/university/mini-courses/
82. cc licensed flickr photo by assbach: http://flickr.com/photos/assbach/253218488/
Gather
Seek Follow
Explore
Cultivating inquisitive mindsets
90. The natural limitations of search has
resulted in expansion of choice in
information curation.
The traditional social bookmarking sites like
diigo, pearltrees, Scoopit, and others
enable users to save information.
Products like pinterest allow for collection
of visual artifacts, allowing users to
organize them into infinite categories.
http://www.teachthought.com/featured/how-google-impacts-the-way-students-think/
But recent software has taken this even further, with
apps like Learnist, mentormob, and even InstaGrok
providing more structure to how information is not only
discovered, but sequenced and applied.
91. Diigo is a social bookmarking site that allows users to collect bookmarks, annotate
them and share to groups or lists.
Pinterest is a pinboard-styled social photo sharing website. The service allows
users to create and manage theme-based image collections linked out to sites of
origin.
Learnist is a social curation and sharing site that integrates with other curation
opportunities such as Pinterest, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter
Livebinders is a great way to creat your own information resources, evidence,
documentation, and more. It’s easy and it’s visual and a great opportunity for
collaborating, organising and sharing resources.
Scoop.it allows users to create and share their own themed magazines designed
around a given topic.
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98. Europeana enables people to explore the
digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries,
archives and audio-visual collections.
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/index.html
Linked Open Data on the Web. The site currently contains
metadata on 3.5 million texts, images, videos and sounds.
99. Global Images
The key goal of The Commons is to share hidden treasures
from the world's public photography archives.
https://www.flickr.com/commons
100. Create resource guides
Feedly is a great RSS feed reader to help you monitor lots of resources quickly.
Smore or Tackk works well to create newsletter types of pages where you can add new
resources and news.
Flipboard Magazines allow you to create collections of articles, links to resources,
images, news and more. Users can subscribe and get updates in a variety of ways,
depending on the source.
Tumblr blog – it’s easy to add notes, photos, links to articles to a tumblr. Your audience
can subscribe to update through their own tumblr account, visit it via it’s URL or via an
RSS feed
Diigo Groups – Bookmark items in Diigo and add items to a diigo group that your
audience can subscribe to updates via email or RSS.
RSS magic – Anything with an RSS feed gives you lots more options. Readers can
subscribe via their own feed reader or email. And you can display updates in a widget on
your web/wiki pages.
https://cooltoolsforschool.wordpress.com/thing-22-create-a-resource-guide/
106. Find free images online http://judyoconnell.com/find-free-images-online/
PhotoPin – My first stop for photo searching. Very easy to use
and searches a number of sources for CC licensed photos.
CC search – search for images, video and music from one
search page. Handy!
Flickr advanced search – Scroll to the botton of the screen
and select the Creative Commons setting & “Find content to
modify, adapt, or build upon”
Image search tools
107. • Post photos of school & community events.
• Create a school group on Flickr for students & staff to share photos
of events.
• Hold a “Day in the Life” event where the community shares photos
representing one day in the life of the school.
• Photos to chronicle library/school renovations and keep community
up to date.
• Share photos of art work and crafts created by students.
• Book spine poetry photos. :)
• Scan & post historic photos and ask community to share memories
through the comments feature.
• Join other groups or share your own class groups!
• Share ideas for library displays, program ideas and more.
• Create slide shows that can be embedded on your web page
• Create your own favourites collection
• Public photo sharing sites like flickr are great resources for Creative
Commons licensed images to use in presentations.
109. Creative Commons
Creative Commons licensing allows for reuse of a image
(and other intellectual content) under certain conditions.
The licensing is easy to understand and having students
select how they want to license their own work is a great
way to get students thinking about copyright, reuse and
attribution.
110. Creative commons
licenses work as “some
rights reserved rule
instead of “all rights
reserved” rule.
Diverse set of license
conditions with a range
of freedoms and
limitations.
http://creativecommons.org/
111. Digital content curation and communication
The benefits of
content curation
is that you don’t
re-invent the
wheel - you
share!
Model the future!
112.
113.
114. Curriculum projects
The focus of the project was to facilitate deeper learning in our students by creating an
‘authentic learning’ experience to strengthen writing and literacy skills across the
curriculum. In English, students learned about the literary conventions of forensic fiction in
their crime novel, Framed, and how to use them to solve a crime. In Science, students
learned about how use a variety of scientific methods including analysing dental records,
fragments and fibres, fingerprinting, shoe-printing and DNA samples in order to solve a
crime.
Body in the library
115. Curriculum projects
Each boy received a forensic workbook –
containing a range of materials for
examination such as crime reports,
witness statements and a coroners
report. In addition the ‘crime scene’ was
taped off, with key evidence on display
e.g. fingerprints, the location of the body,
and places where DNA was found.
Photographic evidence included the
injury reports (fake bruising and blood on
the victim), video footage of the scene of
the crime (staged by students and
teachers) and also hard hitting
interviews.
116. Curriculum projects
O’Connell, J. (2011). Body in the Library': A cross-curriculum transliteracy project, in
L.Marquardt & D. Oberg (Ed.) Global Perspectives on School Libraries: Projects and Practices,
Berlin, New York : De Gruyter Saur.
English curriculum
• Study of forensic fiction and different sub -genres of mystery fiction
(this also provided an opportunity for supporting literature displays in the
library)
• Study of famous fiction forensic films/novels/characters
• Character and plot analysis, including the relationships of clues,
events, and people in solving a crime.
Science curriculum
• Study of forensic science and the scientific method required (this provided
an opportunity for non-fiction book displays in the library)
• Crime scene basics, protocol, techniques, scientific evidence.
• Police techniques for investigating a murder. i.e., interviews, ID parade,
CTV security images.
118. • Communication
–sharing thoughts, questions, ideas and solutions
• Curation
–collecting and reflecting on what we encounter
• Collaboration
–working together to reach a goal
–putting talent, expertise and ‘smarts’ to work
• Critical thinking
–looking at problems in a new way
–linking learning across subjects and disciplines
• Creativity
–trying new approaches to get things done
–innovation and invention
119. 119
Developing agile approaches .....
http://libraryschool.libguidescms.com/hiddentreasures
Hidden treasures in
the global commons