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Bring ’ Em Back!. Collaborating with the Media Center to Increase Student Understanding and Achievement. Created by: Ren ée Crumley Partial Requirement for MEDT 7485 Summer 2009. Goals for SY 2009 - 2010. Increase lesson collaboration with Language Arts teachers
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Bring ’Em Back! Collaborating with the Media Center to Increase Student Understanding and Achievement Created by: Renée Crumley Partial Requirement for MEDT 7485 Summer 2009
Goals for SY 2009 - 2010 • Increase lesson collaboration with Language Arts teachers • Increase delivery of student lessons in media center • Increase student understanding and application of learned skills • Support for School Improvement Plan
Reasons to Collaborate • Better student understanding of Georgia ELA standards • Imbedding media/information technology skills in ELA lessons • Better skills transfer for students across various units • More student needs met
Better Understanding of Georgia ELA Standards • Cross curricula applications • Building meaning in content areas • Online texts and web sites • Multiple genre exposure • Multiple writing style
Imbedding Media/Information Technology Skills in ELA lessons • Teaching digital access skills • Teaching evaluation or screening of web site skills • Teaching how to do Boolean searches • Teaching the difference between an internet search and a database search • Teaching the use of various formats available including web sites, video, pictures, and databases
Better Skills Transfer for Students Across Various Units • Bloom hierarchy for digital literacy: Beginning from the skill level of remembering to the highest skill level of creating from unit to unit and subject to subject ***Andrew Churches, Tech&Learning.com, 22 August 2008 • Application of digital literacy: website creation EX: http://stu.westga.edu/~rcrumle1/7467_finalwebsite_rmc/default.html
Digital Bloom: Remembering • Bullet pointing: listing in the digital age • Social bookmarking: using the teacher’s blog • Searching: Online research “Googling”
Digital Bloom: Understanding • Advanced searches • Boolean searches • Blogging
Digital Bloom: Applying • Loading applications • Operating programs • Sharing • Editing
Digital Bloom: Analyzing • Linking • Integrating • Tagging
Digital Bloom: Evaluating • Posting • Collaborating • Blog Commenting • Networking
Digital Bloom: Creating • Programming • Filming • Podcasting • Wiki-ing • Publishing • Mixing
Benefits of Collaboration • More effective use of resources: The media center has more resources than the individual classroom • More effective use of teaching time: The teacher: student ratio is lowered • Integration of educational technologies: More exposure to new technology and creation of teaching websites that students access from home for follow up instruction • Shared efforts of promoting literacy: Teacher and Media Specialist share reading interests
More Benefits of Collaboration • Fewer discipline problems: Students more engaged and there are two teachers • Easier to meet individual needs: Two teachers work to strengths of each other. Students’ individual learning styles can be met. • Shared work load: Planning, teaching, and assessing together • Developing life-long learning: Fostering the habit of using the library for work and pleasure
Support For School Improvement Plan • Provide extended learning opportunities for students to master content • Collaborate to select strategies to help students who do not meet standards • Provide enrichment opportunities for students who master content quickly
Conclusions • Lets get started with collaboration • Bring your students to the media center for better student understanding
Citations and Readings American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communication and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1998. Churches, Andrew. "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally." Tech & Learning. 22 Aug. 2008. 22 June 2009 <techlearning.com/article/8670>. Knobel, Michele, and Dana Wilber. "Let's Talk 2.o." Educational Leadership Mar. 2009: 20-24. McNabb, Mary L. Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms: Using the Internet with Middle-Level Students. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2006. Ryan, Jenny, and Steph Capra. Information Literacy Toolkit: Grade 7 and Up. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2001. Taylor, Joie. Information Literacy and the School Library Media Center. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.