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2.0 Freedom: Assessing the issues
Please check off the 2.0 applications that ARE allowed in your school or district. (Check all that apply)
( surveys)
Please check off the 2.0 applications NOT allowed in your school or district. (Check all that apply)
( polls)
When I travel to conferences I often share our school’s successes using 2.0 applications as learning tools to support information fluency (and the rest of our curriculum).
When I travel to conferences, I often discover how many schools are restricted from using any of those tools we now use regularly for reflection, improving writing, collaboration, communication, storytelling, creativity, sharing new knowledge. So I thought I’d use my new polling abilities to begin to help us understand the level of restriction in the field.
What should we do with this informal data? I am open to your ideas.
What I think we need to do is to share our models of effective practice with these new tools so that reluctant administrators begin to see the benefits–the potential these tools hold for new engagement, for richer learning, as well as the new energy they bring to many of us as teachers.
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This is an equity issue. This is an issue librarians must fight if access to the tools for information and communication are to be truly democratically shared across our culture. We cannot stop at no.
I also though it might help to share the letter our District’s Tech Director, Michael Wagman, wrote for parents that explains why we are excited about the potential for these new tools.
(Sorry for the size and resolution of the image below. I posted a copy of the document of on the Web to address the problem.)
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About Joyce Valenza
Joyce is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Rutgers University School of Information and Communication, a technology writer, speaker, blogger and learner. Follow her on Twitter: @joycevalenza
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