Early Literacy Task Force

1. Early Literacy Task Force June 15, 2016 OhioNET

2. Vision Each Ohio PreK-12 student has equal access to high quality digital resources for a successful education and future.

3. Mission Transforms student learning by providing equitable access to quality resources and cost-effective instructional and technical support for each student, educator, and parent in Ohio.

4. Shifts and Initiatives 2016-2017 • Policy Changes • ESSA • Standards • Quality • Content • Evaluate core collection to verify it aligns to standards and supports student needs. • Operations • Investigate new funding models to secure and expand instructional and technical foundation. • Digital Shifts • 1:1, BYOD • Print and Digital Balance • Instruction • Develop and evaluate standards-aligned tools and effective strategies that improve early literacy, digital literacy, and CCR. • Access & Management • Implement and evaluate next generation • discovery, delivery, and management tools. • Next Gen Teaching • PLNs, Teacher Education • Leveraging Data and Tech • Operations • Student Learning • Personalized, Collaborative, PBL • Digital Competency • Students as Creators

5. Our Guiding Mission Getting the right reading material and learning content into the hands of our youngest users

6. Goal In 12-18 months, the Early Literacy Task Force will design/develop in consultation with INFOhio Tech a kid-tested interface with INFOhio resources and school catalog items available from one site.

7. June 2015 Meeting • Mission - Getting the right reading material and learning content into the hands of our youngest users • Next steps • become a fully integrated digital library • easy, elegant, engaging interface • physical presence • quality content • mobile Transformation + disruption = innovation Digital Shifts • hybrid/mobile/blended learning • personalized learning • students as creators • BYOD, 1:1 • In 12-18 months, the Early Literacy Task Force will design/develop in consultation with INFOhio Tech a kid-tested interface with INFOhio resources and school catalog items available from one site.

8. “Teams for Tomorrow” • Investigation Committee • collect research from Connie and read it • look at current interfaces for other products • Renee: create form to share and collaborate on while evaluating interfaces and products • review ISearchand all its features • interview kids and find out what they like/don’t like about various sites • list of wants/wishes for our INFOhio interface uplift • Kalin with create a Google hangout for a virtual meeting on Aug. 10 at 10:00 a.m. • Diigo list of research articles • https://www.diigo.com/outliner/5fx0v5/Children's-Interfaces?key=hrfm71sgsz • Community Connections Committee • Angela and Sandra: Compile academic standards (AASL, ISTE, Ohio) that will align with the use of such a tool, help frame what students should be able to do at Pre-K, K, 1, 2, 3 • Janet: Compile Ohio Ready to Read aligned resources/standards. • Developmental Milestones • Google Hangout in August • Once school year begins, move on to stakeholder needs, user design issues with input from INFOhio staff.

11. Digital Content for Digital Personalized Learning

12. Background 1990 World Wide Web is Born 1998 Databases: Access to Digital Content 2009 Instructional Services: Help with Technology Integration 1995 Automation: Access to Library Books 2014:ISearch

13. Expanding Access • Growth in automation • Growth in digital content • Creation of Open Educational Resources • Seamless searching through ISearch

14. Schools Depend on INFOhio 90% $$$$ 10% $$$$

15. 2014-2016

16. Every Student Succeeds Act(ESSA)

17. Knowledge Works http://knowledgeworks.org/worldoflearning/2016/03/essa-opportunities/

19. What is INFOhio's role regarding leadership in digital content? • Core collection for all students • Consortium purchase for additional content beyond the core collection • Access to Open Education Resources • including materials developed by teachers and students? • Curating and distributing content

20. What are the top concerns of school administrators, school teachers? • How can INFOhio’s digital content help solve the problem? • How can we communicate and bring the customer to the INFOhio solution? • Who would be good partners to work to solve the problem?

21. How did we get here?

22. No matter where you go… Most college libraries are using a Discovery Service

27. Enterprise (INFOhio Discovery Layer Pilot)

33. Usabilityas defined by Steve Krug • Useful – Does it do something people need to done? • Learnable – Can people figure out how to use it? • Memorable – Do they have to relearn it every time they use it? • Effective – Does it get the job done? • Efficient – Does it do it with a reasonable amount of time and effort? • Do people want it?

34. Why study usability? • Build the better mousetrap • Address the elephant in the room (or the site) • It’s the whole team’s job • It’s not rocket science • There is no “right answer”

36. How? • Choose 3 study participants from grades K-3. • Identify three dates for three tasks • Complete study between March 1 and March 31 • Use directions, parent release form, and script on Basecamp • Share findings in Google Form

37. Usability Script Modify as needed Includes space to record answers and notes Includes procedures and process

38. Group Work Task 1 – INFOhioCATJr. And Lima Public Library Task 2 – BookFlix Task 3 – INFOhio Website • Read findings for your task • Categorize and label findings – example: What is the first thing you notice? Most answers are the dog – visuals seem to be important • Use results to create some recommendations for use of websites by early/beginning readers • Share information on Google Doc http://bit.ly/1tuLZ0M

39. The more reading moved online, the less students seemed to understand.. We become tired. When we scroll, we tend to read more quickly (and less deeply). We don’t read the same way online as we do on paper. http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/being-a-better-online-reader

40. http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/04/ebooks/ebooks-trump-print-except-when-it-comes-to-reading-to-kids/http://www.thedigitalshift.com/2012/04/ebooks/ebooks-trump-print-except-when-it-comes-to-reading-to-kids/

41. Parental Involvement

42. success.infohio.org

43. Goals By January 30, 2017, each instructional area (DL, EL, CCR) will produce a print or online document which furthers the goals of each instructional area and promotes INFOhio's tools and resources while demonstrating their alignment to Ohio's Learning Standards.

44. Next Steps