AASL Presentation by David V. Loertscher and Company

 

AASL ConferenceReno, NV Oct. 2007

 

 

Password: aaslreno

 

Notes from Treasure Mountain

Wikipedia entry on school libraries

Syracuse

 

The balance of this page includes the contents of the AASL presentation:

 

AASLHandout.pdf

 

 

The audience at David Loertscher's AASL session were invited to add ideas to those who presented. Because there was wifi in the room (a first), we were able to create a wiki and have various table groups add or "blog" ideas as we went along. What follows are the various table sessions as they ended up. Loertscher then summarized and commented on the table ideas. It is amazing what comes together when everyone in a presentaton is actively involved.

 

Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5
Table 6	Table 7	Table 8	Table 9	Table 10
Table 11	Table 12	Table 13	Table 14	Table 15
Table 16	Table 17	Table 18	Table 19	Table 20

 

 

Summary of table ideas:

 

Reading

Technology

Teaching and Learning

Continuing Education

 

Note from the editor: For this session, we were using the Advice to Action model from Beyond Those Bird Units so the object was to gather as much advice as we could from everyone involved. So what? We are all challenged to move our library media programs into the 21st century. What advice will you take to move forward? Consider the advice given by the presenters and the final radical ideas and chart your course.

 

Instructional idea: Wikis are very useful for collecting ideas. Use the technique above to have stuents collect information about their president, state, place, or idea. Then form new groups of students who look for patterns across what has been collected. What was similar and different about the boyhood of the presidents we studied? What did they do in their teen years that helped prepare them for what was ahead? For the final so what, ask students to make a list of characteristics of any successful person using the presidennts as a model. They might realize that some characteristics contributed, others did not.

 

 

Major ideas presented by David Loertscher:

• Sharpen your vision
• Learning and Collaboration
  • Every time you collaborate, end the unit with a Big Think—a So What (see Carol Koeschlin and Sandi Zwaan bellow)
  • Ban every "bird unit" from the library. You do not want to be an accomplice to mediocrity.
  • Document increased learning when you collaobrate by participating in the action research project: Are Two Heads Better Than One? at http://davidvl.org">http://davidvl.org under the action research tab

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Reading

• Mesh with the language arts—be at the table
• Insert your agenda of wide reading, the love of reading, and a life-long reading habit
• Make access to books happen—be a Barnes and Nobel Bookstore
• Get mountains of books into the hands of the poor and the English Language Learners. You are their only hope of success.
• Participate inhttp://knowville.org">http://knowville.org

 

• Technology
  • Insist that technology helps students learn more in less time (see Doug Achterman below)
  • Compte with Googlelibrarians can get back in the competitive information world! (See Robint T. William's below)

 

• Evidence
  • Go beyond your feelings and observations; get data and share it (see Nancy Miller below)

 

 

• Radical Ideas from Dave Loertscher:

 

The Environment

 

The People Who Work there:

 

[So+What?|So What?]

 

 

 

 

 

Major idea for Learning:

Replace linear oral presentations by a Big Think—a So What Activity

presented by Carol Koechlin and Sandi Zwaan**

Zwaan and Koechlin

 

 

 

 

 

Major idea for Technbology:

Technology Must help learners learn more in less time

Use a well-designed wiki to achieve incredible learning in less time

Presented by Doug Achterman:

 

Group Collaboration, Big Ideas, and Individual Accountability

 

 

 

 

Major idea for Technology:

Librarians need not be bypassed by Googlers any more!

Use iGoogle to help Kids and teens build and manage their own information spaces; and,

teach them how to manage themselves in that space;

Put them In Command!

presented by Robin T. Williams

Williams

 

 

 

Major Idea:

Don't trust your feelings or observation about the success of your program.

Get some reliable streams of evidence to support your success and fine tune your results.

Presented by Nancy A.S. Miller

Miller