4.+Social+Media

= = Social Networking – Tool for Learning or Library Battleground? CLOSING REMARKS: From Ruth = Thanks to the Panel for providing the content of the forum questions.Next time: we could move the room into a circle to allow more discussion. Quote from Joyce Valenza //Things that keep us up at night:// “The libraries as we once knew them may no longer be relevant. School Librarians as we once knew them, may no longer be relevant. And yet, this is undoubtedly the most exciting time to be a Teacher-Librarian.”
 * Facebook can be problematic (one school had a major incident, with Police intervention)
 * Yet another school uses Facebook for a library site and for students to create collaborative "pages" online: RCI Library
 * Twitter is very easy, not blocked, quick messages, good for connections that are very new to search
 * NetBooks: can be as low as $230/each. Inexpensive way to get another lab, with WIFI
 * Myth about students and their technology expertise, from Ken Haycock in his session earlier in the day: just because you are self-confident doesn’t mean you are competent
 * Gaming: Beth Galloway talks about gaming and library
 * PopTropica – Pearson Education bought site; created Greg Kinney - //__Diary of a Wimpy Kid__//
 * IM didn’t work Wiki became a Laval Life vehicle (Diana can you help explain ???)
 * Library Facebook Page another avenue to get information in a format that students already use. When FB started students thought it was a secret student place where teachers don’t go. We're all beyond that now.
 * Some teachers fear it, won’t learn how to use it
 * From Will Richardson's blog: he is looking for teachers to be role models not necessarily content experts: we can be Master Learners and our students are then Apprentice Learners, especially with the global social nature of learning now.
 * Want kids to be safe, but need to teach them best process of using Social tools
 * Behavioural issues have been around forever. The issue is student engagement - need to be taught to stay on track, whether with paper airplanes or IM.
 * Social Networking is precisely that – Social
 * We can’t stop the child’s ideas to be expressed, verbal, written, online
 * Teacher-librarians have a responsibility to direct student use with ethics, language
 * Blogs and Wikis prominent in one school's culture
 * Principal, teachers are on Facebook, agreed not to allow current students as "friends": as role-models, we teach students that we are connected to our families on Facebook and need to have our Personal life and Privacy respected
 * Issues are taught through role-models
 * Resistence from very conservative staff members who are not using social media
 * Accountability issue for teachers to parents
 * How do you mark a Blog, Wiki, Facebook site?
 * Is it a literacy or even a literature learning tool
 * Ministry guides with Language Rubrics
 * Multiple levels of skills difficult to evaluate especially Kinder – Grade 8
 * YouTube & Facebook issues - IT decision-makers block it because there is too much objectional content available to students; we have to be involved in that decision as educators (and not let technicians dictate good teaching practices).
 * Teachers panic – need to learn how to deal with tools
 * Need to teach students how to navigate the contention
 * On-going battles with different perspectives, all are reading the comments
 * Need to discuss all the issues