How can librarians help students with Digital Citizenship? (5 posts)

  • Profile picture of Jay Collier Jay Collier said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    MARCH 8, 2012 BY PAM GOUCHER

    Does the Maine Laptop program provide any opportunities for librarians to work with students to address issues involving Internet safety, evaluating sources on the Web, etc.?
    If so, how are they doing it?

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  • Profile picture of Jay Collier Jay Collier said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Lisa Hogan says:

    Just this week Fred Weinberg, Mt. Ararat High School librarian, and I did a two hour session with the faculty about intellectual property rights in the 21st Century. With the advent of one to one laptops in the high school we felt the faculty needed to understand basic copyright law, fair use guidelines, public domain, and creative common licenses as it is so easy to copy and replicate images, documents, music, and more. It is our hope empowering the faculty with knowledge about intellectual property rights and sources their students can use to get materials licensed for reuse and remix will make an impact in the teachers’ daily instructional practice as they design lessons, materials, webpages, and assignments that incorporate and exhibit respect for intellectual property.

    March 28, 2012 at 12:00 am

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  • Profile picture of Jay Collier Jay Collier said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    Teri Couette says:

    It is wonderful to hear that you worked with your librarian. It would be great if every librarian could do workshops and training with their staff. With so much digital learning there are bound to be questions. There are many people who think that almost everything is allowed under fair use. I think with work being published on school web pages teacher need to be aware of what they should and should not publish and how to give credit. So many photos are available with creative commons licenses now which makes it a great learning opportunity to teach both staff and students how to use them.

    Some of the best practices I have seen in schools to avoid plagiarism is having students begin their writing or projects in class and the teacher guides them on each draft.

    March 28, 2012 at 10:08 am

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  • Profile picture of Kate Greeley Kate Greeley said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    At the elementary level, I thought I would involve our librarian and the library ed techs in teaching some of the curriculum in Common Sense Media. In particular, I was targeting the Research and Informational Literacy Strand. (The other strands are taught in the classroom.) I learned quickly that at the elementary level, school culture still views the library as the place to go get a book or listen to a story. The thought of using technology seemed rather foreign and uncomfortable. We met together to preview the searching lessons and made a plan to give it a try. Our discovery is that we need to back up a few steps, though. If the school culture is not in a place where they see the value of using the library as a 21st century research center, then how can we expect our students to think that?
    So…. now we’re discussing what should a 21st century library look like and what skills does a librarian need. I used a clip on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MuGDMlbSso to start the discussion…
    I would love more resources to help grow this group. Any suggestions?

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  • Profile picture of Eileen Broderick Eileen Broderick said 1 year, 1 month ago:

    The You Tube video is great !
    The Libraries United Conference scheduled for this May in Orono is full of programs that are examples of 21st century libraries. For example, there is a session on hosting an appy hour for educators, another on using iPads for research, productivity, and literacy in an elementary school library, and another on tools for transforming school library programs. See http://maslibraries.org/about/conferences/index.html for all the program listings.

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