Transcript Older Student - Longwood University

U.S. National Center for
Education Statistics
• “School Library Media Centers: Selected
Results from the Education Longitudinal
Study of 2002 (ELS:2002)”
• Sample of 15,525 10th graders in 752 schools
• “Found a significant correlation between student test
scores and their use of the school library—students
with higher test scores reported higher use of library
resources for assignments, in-school projects and
research papers, than those students whose
composite test scores were in the lower range”
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Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring Baldo!
Retrieved February 25, 2005, from
http://www.ucomics.com/baldo/2005/02/24/
Linking
Libraries and
Academic
Achievement:
MAXImize Your
Resources
It’s Virtually
Possible!
“Looking Ahead”
Dawn Vaughn, President’s Column,
November/December 2004 Knowledge Quest
• Moore’s Law: Technology will double in speed
and drop in price by half every twelve months.
• Law of the Photon: Computer speed doubles
every six months.
• Internet Revolution: …in the last ten years~
• Fifty percent of what we learned two years ago
is inaccurate today…(ten months for doctors).
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Search Engine Users
Pew Internet & American Life Project,
January 2005
• 84% of Internet users have used search engines.
• 68% of users say that search engines are a fair
and unbiased source of information.
• 38% of searchers are aware of a distinction
between paid and unpaid results; 62% are not.
• 92% of those who use search engines say they
are confident about their searching abilities.
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• Born to be Wired:The Role of New Media for a
Digital Generation, Yahoo study, June 2003
• Key Finding: The Internet has become THE
youth medium of choice…time spent with the
Internet now exceeds the time spent with the
television for the “Millennial” generation, youths
aged 13 to 24”
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• The Digital Disconnect:The Widening Gap Between
Internet Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew
Internet & American Life Project, August 2002
– Virtually all middle and high school students use the
Internet heavily to do research to help them write
papers or complete class work or homework
assignments…as virtual textbook and reference
library…For the most part, students’ educational use of
the Internet occurs outside of the school day, outside of
the school building, outside the direction of their
teachers…
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• Fitzgerald and Galloway study, 2001, online
behavior of high school senior and undergraduate
college students
– Students in both groups
• Had few resource-based inquiry projects in past
• Had difficulty distinguishing Internet resources from
subscription databases
• Had difficulty selecting the “best” database for the project
• Had difficulty searching (did not use Boolean logic or
Advanced Search; did not use Help screens available)
• Had difficulty evaluating information found
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• Williams, Grimble, and Irwin study, 2004,
teacher’s link to electronic resources in library
– Teachers encourage students to use the Internet in
the school library media center, but most do not
direct students to use databases.
– Teachers consider information from electronic
databases to be more reliable and focused, but they
say the Internet is faster, easier to use, and has a
greater scope of information.
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• The Digital Disconnect:The Widening Gap Between Internet
Savvy Students and Their Schools, Pew Internet &
American Life Project, August 2002
• What did the students say?
– “Schools should place priority on developing programs to
teach keyboarding, computer, and Internet literacy skills.”
– “There should be continued effort to ensure that highquality online information to complete school assignments
be freely available, easily accessible, and age-appropriate.”
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Linking
Libraries and
Academic
Achievement:
MAXImize Your
Resources
It’s Virtually
Possible!
What?
Why?
Where?
How?
When?
WHAT?
• A virtual presence
• A school library media center Web
page
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WHAT to include?
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Links to FindItVa
Links to databases
Curriculum pathfinders
Link to online catalog
Links to professional resources
Basic information literacy instruction (search
tips, citation information, etc.)
• Accelerated Reader title list
• Information about the library and library events
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What NOT to include!
• Login and password information for
databases
• Outdated or soon-to-be outdated
information
• Pictures that are extremely slow to load
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WHY?
• Search Engine Users
– 68% say search engines “fair and unbiased source”!
• Born To Be Wired
– Youth spend a lot of time on the Internet!
• The Digital Disconnect
– They are researching outside of school!
• NCES--ELS: 2002
– Significant correlation between test scores and library use!
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WHERE?
• Linked from the school’s home page!
• For example,
– Gloucester High School
– Agnor Hurt Elementary School
– Springfield Township High School
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HOW?
• Write in html? Use FrontPage, Dreamweaver,
Netscape Composer, Microsoft Publisher?
• Load it (have it loaded) to the school/division
server
• Follow division policies and procedures
– Page content
– Page layout
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WHEN?
• As soon as possible 
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WHY?
• Library Web page is library’s presence outside
of school…
• Page provides opportunity for teachers and
parents to see you as information specialist
• Page is public relations/advocacy tool with
administrators, teachers, students, and parents
• Page connects you to curriculum and
instruction of school, at point of need!
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Exemplars…
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Gloucester High School Library
Glade Spring Middle School Library
Agnor Hurt Library
Murray High School
Walter Reed Middle School Library
Springfield Township High School Library
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Components:
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Research Tools—Agnor Hurt Elementary
How to Search Effectively—Murray High
Curricular Links—Walter Reed Middle
Research Process—Walter Reed Middle
Curricular Pathfinders—Springfield Township
Research Guide—Springfield Township
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School Library
Web Page Links
• Virginia Department of Education
Library Media section
• School Libraries on the Web: A
Directory
• School-Libraries.Net
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IBM
Commercial
…
“We’re
virtual…
there’s always
room…”
Resources
• Born to be wired: The role of new media for a
digital generation. (2003). Retrieved February
17, 2005, from
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/promo/btbw
_2003/btbw_execsum.pdf
• Blowers, H., & Bryan, R. (2004). Weaving a
library web: A guide to developing children’s
websites. Chicago: ALA.
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• Davidsen, S., & Yankee, E. (2004). Web site design with
the patron in mind: A step-by-step guide for libraries.
Chicago: ALA.
• The digital disconnect: The widening gap between
Internet-savvy students and their schools. (2002).
Retrieved February 25, 2005, from
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/67/report_display.as
p
• Fitzgerald, M.A., & Galloway, C. (2001). Helping
students use virtual libraries effectively, Teacher
Librarian, 29(1), 8-14.
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• School library media centers: Selected results from the
Education Longitudinal Study of 2002. (2002). Retrieved
March 3, 2005, from
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2005302
• Search engine users: Internet searchers are confident,
satisfied and trusting—but they are also unaware and
naïve. (2005). Retrieved March 1, 2005, from
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/146/report_display.asp
• Tapscott, D. (1998). Growing up digital: The rise of the
net generation. New York: McGraw-Hill.
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• Vaughn, D. P. (2004). President’s column: Looking
ahead. Knowledge Quest 33(2), 4-5.
• Williams, T.D., Grimble, B.J., & Irwin, M. Teachers’ link
to electronic resources in the library media center: A
local study of awareness, knowledge, and influence.
School Library Media Research Online, 7 (2004).
Retrieved January 6, 2005, from
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/sl
mrcontents/volume72004/williams.htm
• Wilson, A. P. (2004). Library web sites: Creating online
collections and services. Chicago: ALA.
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Contact Information:
• Audrey Church
• Coordinator, School Library Media Program,
Longwood University, Farmville,VA
• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: 434-395-2682
• Web page:
http://www.longwood.edu/staff/churchap
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