Teen Tech Week is a national initiative sponsored by YALSA that aims to ensure teens are competent and ethical users of digital media through libraries. It focuses on resources like e-books, databases, and social media. The related Teen Read Week also encourages teen reading and library use. Studies show teens lack skills to evaluate online information. Libraries help teens build skills like research and online profile management. Some schools implement "Bring Your Own Device" policies to utilize students' technology. Partnerships for Teen Tech Week can include families, community groups, and schools working with public libraries. Makerspaces in libraries allow creation using tools like 3D printers and electronics, helping develop skills needed in today's economy.

1. LIB 600
Education & Libraries
Spring 2015
A public library
thing or a
potential for
collaboration—or
even DIY?

2. 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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http://teentechweek.ning.com/

3. Fall Companion to Teen Tech Week
• Teen Read Week™ is a national adolescent
literacy initiative created by the Young Adult
Library Services Association (YALSA). It
began in 1998 and is held annually during the
third week of October. Its purpose is to
encourage teens to be regular readers and
library users.
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http://teenreadweek.ning.com/

4. So, this is a public 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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The Young
Adult Library
Services
Association
(YALSA) is a
national
association of
librarians,
library workers
and advocates
whose mission
is to expand
and strengthen
library
services for
teens, aged
12-18.

5. What, no books?
• Well—there are books that feature
technology, as in this video from 2013:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ1fkA1MuL8
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6. But it’s also about real technology
• Mobile technology
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http://murrayedu626.org/TTW2013.pdf

7. Sound familiar?
• BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
– “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 [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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8. 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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9. Partnerships in TTW?
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http://murrayedu626.org/TTWPartnerships.pdf

10. 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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11. A Community Partnership in
Practice
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https://www.facebook.com/ClarkCountySchoolPartnership

12. 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
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13. School/Public Library Cooperation
• The AASL/ALSC/YALSA Interdivisional
Committee on School/Public Library
Cooperation
– aims to identify, develop, promote,
and disseminate information on
effective cooperative or collaborative
projects that link schools and public
libraries. Our focus is cooperative,
collaborative or partnership programs
between elementary, middle or high
schools and local public libraries.
– Growing Learners Together program at ALA
Annual 2010
– School/public library cooperative programs
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14. A TTW-Inspired Partnership
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http://libraries.idaho.gov/files/2011TTWEvents
writeup.pdf

15. A Free Webinar from YALSA
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http://yalsa.ala.org/yals/yalsarchive/volume8/8n2_winter2010.pdf

17. Previous years’ themes for TTW
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18. A Movement central to the 2015
TTW Theme of Making
http://murrayedu626.org/Maker
MovementKappan.pdf
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19. Makerspaces?
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• What’s a Makerspace?
– To describe them simply, makerspaces
are community centers with tools.
Makerspaces combine manufacturing
equipment, community, and education for
the purposes of enabling community
members to design, prototype and create
manufactured works that wouldn’t be
possible to create with the resources
available to individuals working alone.
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20. A Guide to Makerspaces
• 16 Resources
– Makerspaces, sometimes also referred to
as hackerspaces, hackspaces, and fablabs
are creative, DIY spaces where people
can gather to create, invent, and learn.
In libraries they often have 3D printers,
software, electronics, craft and hardware
supplies and tools, and more.
– Libraries, Hackspaces and E-waste: how libraries
can be the hub of a young maker revolution
– Makerspaces, Participatory Learning, and Libraries
• A Librarian’s Guide to Makerspaces: 16 Resources
• Ellyssa Kroski — March 12, 2013
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21. Transforming a School Library Into a
Makerspace
The GCAA Makerspace is a
drop-in space for students to
maximize their creative genius.
Students have access before
school, during study hall, at
lunch, and after school to invent
using a variety of electronics and
workshop tools including Arduino,
Raspberry Pi, Makey Makey, a
MakerBot Replicator 2, and
plenty of craft supplies.
Parker Thomas
Posted 09/17/2013 @ 10:00 am
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22. An elementary application
• Making a Makerspace: Peek Inside My Plans
– Vision
– All sites will have access to a Makerspace
where students can work together in
developing STEM familiarity and competency
through after-school 2-week Introductory
(Level 1) courses and 2-4 week Advanced
(Level 2+) courses, along with lunchtime clubs
meeting once or twice a week. These courses
and clubs will include coding, robotics, and
making/design thinking.
• Posted on October 29, 2013

23. TTW Partnerships and
Makerspaces:
Are They Feasible or Desirable
Where You
Are?
But what do they have to do
with education?