Warlick's CoLearners

Planning document from Chris

I just got off of a conference call with Sylvia (who will be our room facilitator) and Brian Kenny (SLJ Editor) and Rocco Staino who are putting the summit together.

Some slight modifications to the proposed agenda:

Friday:

2:30 - 2:40 Breakout begins: Sylvia gets the room settled and introduces Chris
2:40 - 2:45 Chris: Welcome/etc. and BRIEF panel intros (bios in binder)
3:00 - 4:00 Panel Discussions (the guiding questions may come up or not)
3:00 - 3:15 Michael Stephens about history/development of Web 2.0/Library 2.0
3:15 - 3:30 David Warlick - David, could you talk about challenges to libraries from a technology perspective? Michagen laying off librarians and buying laptops type of thing. I know you get it that we need technology, but also librarians to talk about how to use the stuff.
3:30 - 3:45 Diane Chen - Diane, can you please talk about some of the potentials for putting this into practice? Maybe just a couple of quick ideas that you have had success with in an elementary setting?
3:45 - 4:00 Doug Achterman - Again, Doug, can you talk from your perspective in a secondary library?
4:00 - 4:15 Chris does wrap-up of panel and talks about "critical opportunities" (defined as halfway between a nebulous vision statement and a directive action item). One suggestion of a critical opportunity that we can work towards as a group is defining School Library 2.0 so the group (and the profession as a whole) can have ownership of it.
4:15 - 4:45

We could include here brainstorming of other issues brought up by the guiding questions. Possibe critical opportunities might include marketing and branding school libraries, looking at the idea of trust, how does this impact learning, etc. Sylvia, what do you think of the notecards idea?

Saturday:

10:00 - 12:00 Small group discussions with occassional whole group talkbacks working towards the critical opportunities.

Descriptive e-mail from Rocco Staino

The School Library Journal will be holding a its second annual leadership summit in Chicago on November 3 & 4th in Chicago. The title of the event is "Learning in the 21 st Century: The Role of the Library Media Program". This summit will explore the rapid changes occurring in education and the impact of these changes on learners and educators in the 21st century, and the changing role of the school media specialist in this new landscape. There will be two keynote speakers. They are David Cavallo of M.I.T. Media Lab (http://www.media.mit.edu/people/bio_cavallo.html ) and library futurist, Joan Frye Williams, (http://www.jfwilliams.com/ ).

The over two hundred attendees will react to speaker and panel presentations, synthesize information, and collaborate to create vision statements that respond to these cultural shifts. I have asked Chris Harris to facilitate The School Library 2.0 panel, one of the three panel discussions that will drive discussion during the conference

I would like to invite you to also participate in The School Library 2.0 panel. Our goal is to provoke thought and inspire discussion among those who attend this particular strand and to bring our findings back to the larger group of conference attendees. Your work with the field will make your involvement on this panel an important asset.

Below you will find some questions we might explore around this theme. We welcome your suggestions in refining the theme, as well as any other relevant questions.

Bringing together librarians, technology coordinators, classroom teachers, and futurists, this group will look at how emerging technologies that are a part of learners' lives can be integrated into education.

What is School Library 2.0 ?

In order for a school library media program to achieve a level of School Library 2.0 a level of trust and safety must be reached. What steps must be taken to achieve an acceptable level of trust and safety?

What elements of learning that aren't currently supported or don't exist will become possible with School Library 2.0 ? How will these effect student achievement?

Is there a relation between our school library collection and School Library 2.0 ?

The perception of a school library and the activities which occur there is greatly distorted by the media, fellow educators and the public in general. Many programs exist to change this perception. What marketing or promotional steps must be taken to create a School Library 2.0 ?

Please let us know if you are interested in participating on our panel and its follow-up discussion sessions with conference attendees.

Brian Kenney, Editor-in-Chief

School Library Journal