Difference between revisions of "AASL Fall Forum Backchannel Transcript"

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Do read that blog post. &nbsp;I hope that I didn't insult any classroom teachers. &nbsp;It just seems that librarians do not have the same constraints to comply that most classroom teachers do.</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I've been looking forward to this as well. &nbsp;I've always loved working with librarians, because more than any other component member of education, media folks "Get It!"</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I don't mean this as a criticism, it's an observation. &nbsp;But ''why are we flying to an Anytime Anywhere Learning Conference''. &nbsp;Personally, I love going there.</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Again, librarians "GET IT!"</span></div><div><br/></div><div><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I'm deleting out a lot of the "anticipation" posts...</span></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">It's why we get out and meet others of like interest. &nbsp;When librarians get together, genius is not far away...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Twitter use to make this much easier than it is now. &nbsp;Initially, you could easily convert a Twitter search as an RSS feed, so that you could actually embed dynamic related Tweets on a blog or other web page. &nbsp;Sadly, the removed that feature.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Odd that you're sitting in Greensboro to watch me (a Raleigh resident) presenting from St. Louis. &nbsp;''<span style="font-size:large;">What a world!</span>''</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Ta Daaaaah!</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes, 20th century education was defined by it limits (four walls of the classroom, two covers of the textbook, etc.). &nbsp;21st century education must be defined by it lack of limits.</span></span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">And here you are!</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Tell us more!</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes, what are the pedagogies of information abundant information environments. &nbsp;</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">That's where they get their traction. &nbsp;There are lots of ways to harness that for formal learning.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This, I think, is huge. &nbsp;It's real. &nbsp;It's how we learn in the real adult world. &nbsp;Did it work? &nbsp;Did it not work? &nbsp;We and they are compelled to ask, "Why?"</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

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<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Cool!</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">It's because being a "Master Learner" is what you do. &nbsp;I didn't want to insult you...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">But haven't we always behaved as if learning ended as the bell rang. &nbsp;Education and Learning need to become one thing, and not contained seperately. &nbsp;I've often suggested that we stop talking about "literacy" and add the word "learning," that it's "Learning Literacy."</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes! &nbsp;The student said to his english teacher, &nbsp;"Help me improve my grammar, because my grammar is not good enough for my ideas."</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes! &nbsp;Don't give them all the information. Don't "question-proof" the assignment. &nbsp;Leave stuff out, so that they have to question themselves into the activity.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes! &nbsp;There's a reason why they don't include instructions with those video games. &nbsp;It's part of the adventure, questioning and figuring out the goals, the rules, and how to use the rules to accomplish the goals.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">If you have students playing a part in establishing the rubric for an assignment, then you're doing this...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I might even say, "where mistakes are encouraged..."</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Yes, in so many ways, we are still preparing them for the 1950s...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">How can the learning experience talk back, not just the teacher talking back.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Had to throw that in. &nbsp;NCLB and Race to the Top have caused us to go so far backward. &nbsp;It's an industrial age solution to an information age problem.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">..and give ourselves permission to get it wrong. &nbsp;Teachers should be willing to say, "I made this mistake yesterday, and here's what I learned from it."</font></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">This is me taking a bow!&nbsp;;-)</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Can we even encourage (dare) mistakes, that can drive the learning dialog!</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Again, librarians "GET IT!"</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<br/><div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">In this digital, networked and information abundant world, that you can access from your pocket, library becomes something that you do, not a place where you go...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Cool! &nbsp;I wasn't aware of that one...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I try not to, but just can't help it&nbsp;;-)</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">Literacy today is the skills involved in using information to responsibly learn what you need to know, to do what you need to do.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">It was a great picture...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">√ &nbsp;This was perhaps the most retweeted post. &nbsp;I've deleted most of them out to save space...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">?</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">We desperately need to find (or invent) new ways to measure learning. &nbsp;We need to start trusting teachers to do it again.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">In this digital, networked and information abundant world, that you can access from your pocket, library becomes something that you do, not a place where you go...</span></div></div><div><br/></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">It's a good question that I will likely address this afternoon. &nbsp;But basically, if there are constraints, then we have to ask, "How does this constraint promote relevant learning?"</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I'm not surprised...</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">..where mistakes are encouraged...</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">:-)</span></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<span style="color: rgb(178, 34, 34);">I love the quote from Ann and Kathleen's session, "Challenge gives us a valuable opportunity to become more relevant</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">"</span></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">I have thoroughly enjoyed sitting with them during the conference.</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">This tool is great for my own self reflection. &nbsp;I get to see what resonates and what doesn't in my talks.</font></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Thanks! &nbsp;I wasn't aware of that...</font></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Yes, and it's ancient. &nbsp;I believe that LM_NET predates the Web. &nbsp;Is that true?</font></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">What I'm afraid of is anything I've not done before. &nbsp;It's interesting how much shorter that wall looks, once you've gotten on the other side.</font></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Yes! &nbsp;Brilliant. &nbsp;There were so many amazing ideas that came out at the beginning of blogs...</font></div><div><br/></div><div><font color="#b22222">And what makes blogging so powerful, is that it's such a simple concept. &nbsp;Same with Twitter.</font><br/></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">One of my best quotes&nbsp;:-)</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Yes! &nbsp;I wasn't aware of that one. &nbsp;It's one of the best things about this tool, that I've never used it and not learned something that I didn't know before.</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">I'm a data guy. &nbsp;But, respectfully, I remain unconvinced of its supremecy in education... &nbsp;Sorry!</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">..and that's a skill. &nbsp;It use to be just writing. &nbsp;Now we have a full range of media to choose from and need to be skilled in expression within each.</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">A great presentation. &nbsp;I wrote a lot down for today's closing...</font></div>

<div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Nice to have that one! &nbsp;It will soon be in my Flipboard...</font></div>

<br/><div>[[File:Dfw.jpg|right|Dfw.jpg]]<font color="#b22222">Fantastic infographic.</font></div>