3.3 Juried Panel, Thursday, January 23, 2014 @ 8:30 AM “High-touch Training Through Tech: Approaches to Online Education in Youth Services”
Chair: Cindy Welch, University of Tennessee cwelch11@utk.edu - Why i wanted to create a panel on YS for educational entrepreneurship -- not much written about YS distance/online education (based on review of the literature in connection with 2010 survey) -- my own experiences - mixed, both satisfying and challenging (children's lit, school library management, programming for youth, storytelling, nonfiction for youth, and non-YS courses)
DRAFT Questions from me (for the audience) - FYI, just brainstorming here, so feel free to comment or suggest changes. I'm most interested in #1, 2, and 3, but wonder if #1 would take us off-course for this session. 1. Is there really a difference between teaching YS courses and other courses online? Does the content or our ultimate audience (youth) make a difference? (Joyce: I would argue that it is if our mission is to prepare librarians to prepare kiddos to be metaliterate, creative, participate citizens of knowledge societies.) 2. What do we need to know or explore about the pedagogy of YS online/DE courses, particularly as it relates to technology? 3. What do you see as best/successful practice in this area?
4. Are you teaching mostly synchronous or asynchronous?
5. How do we keep the focus on content and keep the technology as the means but not the end?
6. How do we counteract the stereotype that youth services librarians (in schools and public libraries) are technophobes? How do we nurture our reluctant techies?
My own thoughts about best practice? (I'm thinking ...)
- keep the focus on content rather than technology; content always trumps bells and whistles
- keep it real; insert the technology when it makes sense to do so, not just for effect
- Start with something manageable and build on success
Joyce: Also, philosophically, what does learning look like in networked environments? What is possible that was not? What modalities have we not exploited?
3.3 Juried Panel, Thursday, January 23, 2014 @ 8:30 AM
“High-touch Training Through Tech: Approaches to Online Education in Youth Services”
Chair: Cindy Welch, University of Tennessee
cwelch11@utk.edu
- Why i wanted to create a panel on YS for educational entrepreneurship
-- not much written about YS distance/online education (based on review of the literature in connection with 2010 survey)
-- my own experiences - mixed, both satisfying and challenging (children's lit, school library management, programming for youth, storytelling, nonfiction for youth, and non-YS courses)
DRAFT Questions from me (for the audience) - FYI, just brainstorming here, so feel free to comment or suggest changes. I'm most interested in #1, 2, and 3, but wonder if #1 would take us off-course for this session.
1. Is there really a difference between teaching YS courses and other courses online? Does the content or our ultimate audience (youth) make a difference? (Joyce: I would argue that it is if our mission is to prepare librarians to prepare kiddos to be metaliterate, creative, participate citizens of knowledge societies.)
2. What do we need to know or explore about the pedagogy of YS online/DE courses, particularly as it relates to technology?
3. What do you see as best/successful practice in this area?
4. Are you teaching mostly synchronous or asynchronous?
5. How do we keep the focus on content and keep the technology as the means but not the end?
6. How do we counteract the stereotype that youth services librarians (in schools and public libraries) are technophobes? How do we nurture our reluctant techies?
My own thoughts about best practice? (I'm thinking ...)
- keep the focus on content rather than technology; content always trumps bells and whistles
- keep it real; insert the technology when it makes sense to do so, not just for effect
- Start with something manageable and build on success
Joyce: Also, philosophically, what does learning look like in networked environments? What is possible that was not? What modalities have we not exploited?
Danilo Baylen
dmbaylen@gmail.com
Anthony Bernier, San Jose State University
abernier@slis.sjsu.edu
Marianne Martens,
martens.marianne@gmail.com
Joyce Kasman Valenza,
Rutgers University SC&I
@joycevalenza joycevalenza@gmail.com http://about.me/jvalenza
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