Day One - 17 April 2012
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Really annoying difficulty getting logged in. I didn't have any problems in previous years but this time around was a pain.
One of the things that's a challenge is connecting the fields of Academia with the realities of public education and all of the competition for teacher-time.
In previous years, for example, technologies like Second Life and this year, various flavors of Augmented Reality seem to be big buzz items but as they presently exist, they don't really translate well to the K12 classroom. There are a lot of reasons for this but I think the big one is the investment of time required to master one of these. There has to be a really large Utility-Efficacy/Time to Master ratio for teachers to buy in.
Electronic Information Literacy
A lot of very interesting activity going on. I particularly enjoyed hearing Laureen K's presentation on "Information Literacy for Electronic Resources". It raised some interesting questions and I think the study needs to be extended back to the 9-12 population. I know in my school, students have access to a number of sources including EBSCO and JSTORE but only receive a cursory introduction. I'm in the process of introducing Zotero to some teachers and emphasizing the collaborative aspects of the shared libraries. We'll have to see how that goes. Looking forward to tomorrow's sessions...
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