Conversations, Connections and Community Council of Great City Schools Library Media Supervisors’ Network Conference February 16 -18, 2007 University of Maryland College Park MD
Mar 31, 2015
Conversations, Connections and Community
Council of Great City SchoolsLibrary Media Supervisors’ NetworkConference
February 16 -18, 2007University of MarylandCollege Park MD
The World Café
World Café
World Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a living network of conversation around questions that matter
A Café Conversation is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes
Café History
Sewing circles and "committees of correspondence" helped birth the American Republic
Conversations in cafes and salons spawned the French Revolution
Scandinavian "study circles" created learning societies and stimulated an economic and social renaissance in Northern Europe
World Café Structure Four rounds of discussion starting with the
table you are currently sitting (home table) In 15 minutes you move to another table and
then in another 15 minutes you move to a third table
As you travel to the next table, bring the ideas, themes and questions
Each time one person stays behind and acts as the Table Host
World Café Instructions
Listen with an openness to be influenced by the speaker
Listen for deeper questions, patterns, insights and emerging perspectives
Use the crayons to play, doodle and draw with text, phases, arrows, graphics, etc.
Have fun!
Dialogue: Listen Together and Notice Patterns
Table Host: Your Job
Remind people at your table to jot down key connections, ideas and discoveries and deeper connections as they emerge.
Remain at the table when others leave and welcome travelers from other tables.
Briefly share key insights from prior conversations so others can link and build using key ideas from other table.
What are the characteristics of a 21st century learner?
Begin the dialogue!
Travel to your second table
Travel to your third table
Travel back to your home table
Kids are wired -- 24/7 83% of teens say that the loss of Internet access would have a
negative effect on their schoolwork, and 79% say that no Internet access would affect their personal lives.
43%of students say e-mailing friends or family is their favorite activity, followed by 31% who cite playing games, and 17% who say they enjoy listening to or downloading music.
71% of students say they used the Net for their last big project.
39% of students use e-mail or IM daily to communicate with friends who live outside their local area.
Today’s Student
• collaborative• independent learner• online and face-to-face• multitaskers•visual learners
Tools
instant messagesblogsRSS FeedsPodcastsnews alertswikisemailssearch enginesonline catalogonline image archivesdigitized journalsprimary sourcescollaborative word processing chat
Your Task
Collaboratively create a symbol/graphic representing a 21st century learner
30 minutes Be ready to share with the group;
choose one person in your group to present your symbol/graphic
Lunch
MindMapping
MindMapping Tony Buzan, author and creativity consultant
invented Mind Mapping a powerful graphic technique Mind Mapping is used to
Generate ideas (brain storming, etc.) Design a complex structure (long texts,
hypermedia, large web sites, etc.) Communicate complex ideas Aid learning by explicitly integrating new
and old knowledge
MindMapping
Mind Mapping7
Process
In the center of a large piece of white paper, draw the symbol you created to represent the 21st century student.
Draw 3 branches from the central symbol, like branches on a tree. These are the “challenges.”
Begin branching off into smaller but related topics to explore the “challenges.”
Think fast . . . your mind may work best in 5-7 minute intense periods of thinking.
Keywords are very powerful.
What are the challenges?
Begin the dialogue!Using your MindMaps
Travel to your second table
Travel to your third table
Travel back to your home table
In your groups…
Based on your Café Conversations, agree on three major challenges
Redraw your MindMap if necessary
Break
Add to your Mind Map
What are the strategies?
Begin the dialogue!
Travel to your second table
Travel to your third table
Travel back to your home table
Evening Event
Dinner at 5:00pm Leave for Capital Steps at 6:15
Good Morning!
CGCS Librarians’ Network Wiki
What is a wiki?
“…a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration.” -Wikipedia, 10/15/06
Described as…
Composition system A discussion medium A repository Tool for collaboration
Wikis Allows every user to edit Encourages democratic use of the Web Promotes content composition by non-
technical users Interface is familiar; barriers are minimal Users’ actions on content are instantly
visible Makes creating content and sharing very
easy
Uses of a Wiki
Collaborative knowledge base Personal portfolios Student journaling
How does a Wiki support student learning?
WIKI
Study
reference
Revise/EditComment
Contribute
Educator
EditDelete
Assess
Students
Colleagues/Department/Grad Level Teachers
Review
http://planetmath.org
http://www.budtheteacher.com/wiki/
Free Wiki Hosting
Wikispaces http://www.wikispaces.com
PBWiki http://www.pbwiki.com
Your Task
Choose one or two action steps that you are going to accomplish by August 31, 2007
Write them on a piece of paper Put the paper into the white envelope
in your red folder, address the envelope to yourself
Thank you!