Friday, July 19, module 14, day 14

Online evaluations

How much did you write? 350 words x 14 posts = 4900 words + 10 minutes of fame and final project URL – an average book chapter is approximately 5,000 words – we just wrote the equivalent of 29 book chapters in 3 weeks including research – not to mention discussion forum postings and collaborative work

How much did I write in comments? 14 x 29 (406 comments) x 200 words (81,200 ((00)) words!!!!).

Folks – we have the makings of a full book manuscript in these blog posts – all about teaching, school libraries, technology and educational policy

Synthesizing the journey

1. Individual summaries
Post thoughts, ideas, and responses on the discussion forum for today

2. Where we go from here
Publishing – influencing public perceptions, building public knowledge and support
Presenting – influencing policy conditions (school, district, province, and beyond)
Knowledge generative networks – broadening perspectives; deepening understanding
Efficacious Ict communities of practice: inquiry-based pro d – question, research, discern, design, implement, deliberate, repeat

Thursday, July 18, module 13, day 13

Preparing for difficulties

Crazy-making? Consider implicit association bias

http://www.amazon.ca/Blindspot-Hidden-Biases-Good-People/dp/0553804642

Banaji, M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2013). Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People: Hidden Biases of Good People. Delacorte Press.

Blind spots – what we are capable of perceiving consciously
Blindsight – what we are capable of perceiving collectively

Self-efficacy
Bandura, A. (1982). Self-efficacy in human agency. American Psychologist, 37(2).

Personal learning network – planning for support

Wednesday, July 17, module 12, day 12
Thinking about using ict to enable, enrich, and enhance learning

Read and record impressions on discussion forum: iPads vs Teachers first impressions – thoughts and feelings arising from reading the article

Discuss and record comments on discussion forum critical inquiry – alternate lines of discourse about this phenomena
– identify false dichotomies, binary oppositions, propaganda speech

Re-cap final project vision (without referring to ict)

Re-cap final project participants and learner qualities and characteristics (include ict history, skills, confidence)

Identify ict devices, software applications, and network infrastructure ideally suited to support the project (enrich, enable, enhance learning and connectivity)

Identify pertinent policy conditions – provincial, district, school

Identify pertinent ict access conditions – devices, software, network
Design ict component – ict used singularly, ict used as composite unity (ie. email, website and blog; or digital cameras, Flickr, iPad drawing app, blog).

Design ict component of future vision project – who is doing what, when, with whom, and why

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Tuesday, July 16, Module 11, Day 11

Thinking about Participants’ Learning – Qualities and Characteristics

Designing for Participants’ Learning and Connectivity

Monday, July 15, module 10, day 10

Shape of the week – course overview / putting ourselves on the timeline

Whole group check in – project development plans

Design based learning

Interest based groups – research design based learning
Discuss the relationship between design based learning and inquiry design
Explain how you are incorporating design based learning and/or inquiry based learning into your project
What are you hoping to accomplish with this design approach?

What role does visual literacy and visual language play in your design considerations? How are you accounting for that element in your design?

Visual literacy / visual language

12:10 4 x 10 minutes of fame

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Friday, July 12, module 9, day 9

10 minute debrief – developing world libraries : school level and inquiry-based

Ted talk – sugata mitra hole in the wall project – kids teaching each other technology

Thinking about Developing World Libraries and kids teaching each other – is access to information a human right?

EBSCO, open educational resources, personal learning networks, network publishing

Creative Commons, content pay walls, educational access to educational content

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10 minute summative presentations

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10 minutes of fame

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Peer review review

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Thursday, July 11, Module 8, Day 8
Developing world libraries in the context of your topic inquiry:

What are the latest developments pertaining to world libraries? How do these developments impact our school libraries? What is our school library response to developing world libraries? How might developing world libraries relate to your topic inquiry this week?