This weekend, I had the pleasure of participating in the
North Carolina School Library Media Association (NCSLMA)'s annual conference.
Even though I was only there for a short time, I was able to have great
conversations with dedicated professionals who recognize the brilliant
instructional opportunities the new millennium brings to librarians. I want to
give a special shout-out to opening keynote speaker David Lankes, whose August
2012 post - It's Time To Stop Trying to Save Libraries! inspired me to
"run on my record". To some extent this has quieted my social media
activity. Last week, my own daughter pointed out that I hadn't posted to Bibliotech.me
since June. Then she added that I'd been pushed way down in Google search
results because of Bibliotech - the new all-digital library in Texas (I'd link
to it, but searching for it would only push me farther down!) Uhhh... thanks,
Em! :-(. So back to NCSLMA... I so was
gratified to read through the audience takeaways (#ncslma13 on Twitter) that I
compiled a word cloud of salient keywords. A special thanks to @actinginthelib,
@madamewells, @CCNTH, @candidlibrarian, @deannaharris, @SiggaMitchell,
@rdpalgi, @NClibrariandiva, @TheSlamGuy, @jlynch482 (Please forgive me if I
missed anyone!) for sharing their learning!
There was a bullet list I left out A) because of time, and
B) because I couldn't figure out how to depict it visually, and I didn't want
another bullet list (always trying to keep those to a minimum). It follows:
- Cultivate imagination
- Rethink workflow
- Question assumptions
- Measure impact
- Apply reflection
On a related note, I received an email from my friend (and
New Canaan High School class of 2003 alum) Matt D. this morning noting that
he'd read an article about my last edWeb.net webinar in a popular education
blog out of San Francisco, Mind/Shift.org. I have to say that Katrina Schwartz nailed it. It encapsulates not only the main ideas from my blog, but also my
mini-rant from my NCSLMA breakout session where I said, "What they are
telling you about CIPA as an excuse to enforce absurd filtering practices is a
lie!" I referenced another Mind/Shift post in the session from a few years
back where then United States Department of Education Director of Education
Technology Karen Cator dispelled the myths about CIPA. I still love that one, and
when I asked her a year ago to update it, she politely declined saying,
"Nothing's changed. There is nothing to update." Touché. Interesting
work is being done about the educational impact of CIPA right now, and I look
forward to learning more. In the meantime, I finally saw the impact of the new
COPPA legislation that went into effect on July 1st.
I am still convinced that this will impact the use of mobile
technology - or at least policies around the use of mobile technology for K-12
schools. This was addressed by Library Journal/School Library Journal's online publication,
The Digital Shift last summer. All you 1:1 schools with IOS devices, this is
legislation that merits attention!
My slides from NCSLMA follow:
Here is my closing keynote presentation. The link is http://bit.ly/ncslma13
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