MEETING FIVE

What can we do better/differently with the resources we have?

Articles to Read

Students Becoming Curators of Information

Articles you may find interesting

21st Century Learning and Learners

Stop Stealing the Dream

Our Notes:

We cannot effect real change if we are invisible and inaudible.

Gwyneth Anne Jones

Please add to, revise, edit our notes:

Loud Libraries

Still Pondering

Draft Criteria for Curating Resources (revised)

Digital Tools:  How might we organize tools for our schools?  See examples below:

Introduction to Digital Tools:  http://fwlibrary.cushing.org/digital-tools/overview

Classroom Toolbox:  http://iclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/12663773/Class%20Toolbox

Cool Tools for Schools: http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/

Technology Tools: http://edtechteacher.org/index.php/teaching-technology/tech-tools  (Note these are organized based on learning goals). 

Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools: http://edudemic.com/2010/07/the-35-best-web-2-0-classroom-tools-chosen-by-you/  Note that this list was “crowd-sourced” through Twitter. 

UDLtechtoolkit: http://udltechtoolkit.wikispaces.com  Note that these tools are organized through the concept of universal design for learning. 

Super Book of Web 2.0 Tools for Educators:  http://bit.ly/zHo5Xp*

77 Web Resources for Teachers:http://issuu.com/richardbyrne/docs/77thingsforteacherstotrythissummer/1*

*Note that these last two are “books” - we could create our own.  

Inquiry:  How might we incorporate inquiry-based learning?

Inquiry-based Learning: http://www.inquiry-based.com/index.html  This is inquiry as developed in a grade 5/6 classroom

Shift Your Classroom: http://plpnetwork.com/2012/01/10/shift-your-classroom-small-strategic-steps/  This is a lovely article about the small steps we can take in the direction of inquiry-driven, project-based, tech-embedded learning environments.

Galileo Educational Network: http://www.galileo.org/  This sites is focused on helping us design “rich learning experiences for stuents that engage their minds and hearts in intellectually robust ways.

This comprehensive  inquiry rubric might help us think further:http://www.galileo.org/research/publications/rubric.pdf

Calgary Science School:  This school is built on an inquiry-based model: http://calgaryscienceschool.blogspot.com/.  Director of professional development at Calgary Science School, Neil Stephenson, is now a principal in Coquitlam.  Check out their new initiative – the Inqauiry Hub: http://www.inquiryhub.org/

Open School Learning Commons:  Teacher-librarian colleagues in BC bring “the best in the world to teachers and learners”  http://www.bestlibrary.org/open/