TMC Program

June 2,2012 Start time 1:30 pm

Faculty of Education, U of Ottawa, Lamoureux Hall LMX-477, 145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier, U of O.

Keynote: Dr. Valerie Steves - Young Canadians in a Wired World

Background Reading http://mediasmarts.ca/research-policy

Young Canadians in a Wired World – Phase III Teachers' Perspectives
Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Talking to Youth and Parents about Life Online

Challenge #1 How should the School Library Learning Commons respond to teacher, parent and student concerns about working and learning with technology?

Wired World Spreadsheet

Challenge #2 How can the School Library Learning Commons engage active support with educational leaders (local, provincial, national)?

Group1     Group2     Group3     Group4     Group5     Group6     Group7     Group8     Group9     Group10      Group11     Group12

Social 6:30

Dinner 7:15

Dessert Speaker Ray Doiron Confronting the ‘Crisis of Significance” in 21st Century School Libraries

June 3 Starts 8:00am - Concludes 12:00 noon

We are aiming to build our professional networks. Please find a new group to work with this morning.

BIG IDEAS in TMC Papers

Please work with a partner to read and connect with the papers. We will start with those not covered in presentation. Consider the key concepts presented in the paper and record your findings in the comment space below the paper. You will have about 10 minutes for your first paper and then move on and read and respond to other papers.

Investigating other Standards

Please work with a partner or small group to investigate provincail and national standards .Look for key concepts and consider what connections the school library learning commons should be making to their agenda. Please post links to the sites you reviewed and the significance for school libraries.

Collaborative working document

Challenge #3 Rewrite the table of contents for the new standards (main topics and sub-topics)

Post your vizualizations on this page - Table of Contents for New Standards

BIG THINK

What do we know now?