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Candidates use digital tools, resources, and emerging technologies to design and adapt learning experiences. Candidates engage all learners in finding, evaluating, creating, and communicating data and information in a digital environment. Candidates articulate, communicate, model, and teach digital citizenship.
Technology-Enabled Learning
Technology-Enabled Learning
Web 2.0 tools and other emerging technologies such as blogging and social media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Podcasts are becoming more mainstream or even expected by users of schools, universities, and libraries. Many of these tools can be useful to reference service users and librarians. Still, there has been an increase in reports of online bullying and poor mental health associated with student use of technology.
Researching Web 2.0 tools and other emerging technologies helped me to better grasp the positives and negatives of using certain applications in a library setting. It also helped me to understand that it is vital to educate users about safe use of technology and Web 2.0 tools. Students must learn how to behave appropriately as digital citizens. Not all students are skilled citizens in the world of Web 2.0, some do not possess a high level of computer literacy. Students also need direction for how to determine whether or not a website and the information it contains is credible.
While completing this research, I was most interested to learn about how QR codes are being applied in library settings. QR Codes are another Web 2.0 tool that can be used to engage library users, promote the library or events, and organize a library collection. They are inexpensive to make and easy to use. Users simply scan the code with a QR reader and can be directed to contact information, audio or video files, text, or a URL.
Idaho State University libraries created a "Zombie Library" by labeling book dummies with the title, call number, and a QR code linking to books included in the Gale Virtual Reference library since these e-books had stable URLs for individual titles and unlimited user license. This is a concept I am interested in applying at libraries in the future. Emerging technologies should enhance rather than replace traditional information services.
Cieślak_Web 2.0.pdfQR Codes in the Library
QR Codes in the Library
QR codes can easily link absent students to missed assignments.
Post a QR code to the library's blog or Facebook page for easy access.
Create QR codes to supplemental material so students can review before tests.
QR codes can quickly link substitutes to daily lesson plans and other material.
Emerging Technology
Emerging Technology
Over the past several decades, technology has made significant advancements. Many devices are now considered dated as modern tools continue to emerge at a rapid pace. Completing the following discussion journal made me aware of the technologies that would be most used in a library as well as technologies that are becoming obsolete in libraries. In the future, I plan to keep up with research on the most current library science technologies to accommodate users.
Cieślak_Emerging Technology.pdfSocial Networking
Social Networking
Studies demonstrate that however children are choosing to occupy their time online this year they will be doing the same things at a younger age next year. Just because children can do something online does not mean it's appropriate or developmentally healthy. Physiological development says that young people are unable to assess risk properly until their early or mid-twenties, which would support the idea that there is a need for them to be taught appropriate online behavior and safety precautions
Researching how to teach social networking skills helped me to understand that providing patrons with rules and expectations for when and how they can use technology in the library should be a part of classroom management plans. It also opened my eyes to the importance of creating safe, inclusive learning environments in order to deter bullying both online and offline. As educators, the best thing that we can do for our students is model appropriate online behavior while creating a safe environment to do so.
CIESLAK_TEACHING SOCIAL NETWORKING SKILLS.pdfChildren's Online Protection Act (COPPA)
Children's Online Protection Act (COPPA)
COPPA is a U.S. federal law designed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by operators of Internet services and Web sites. The law was passed by U.S. Congress in 1998 and took effect in April 2000. It imposes certain requirements on users of websites directed at children under 13 years of age and users of other websites or online services that have knowledge they are collecting personal information online from a child under 13 years of age. I will refer to Federal Trade Commission's FAQs about Complying with COPPA as necessary.
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