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Erin Downey Howerton
Erin Downey Howerton, School Liaison, Johnson County LibraryErin Downey Howerton, M.A., M.L.I.S. is the School Liaison for the Johnson County Library (KS). She is active in the Young Adult Library Services Association and edits the association newsletter, YAttitudes! She has presented nationally on various topics concerning teen and youth services in libraries and has published several articles for Voice of Youth Advocates and Young Adult Library Services. She served on the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award committee, and currently chairs the 2011 Michael L. Printz Award committee.
slides: http://www.slideshare.net/erindowney/best-practices-for-web-tools-in-schools
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So at the end of the session Tom asked me to be BOLD and PREDICTIVE about the future of technology in education. I said that of course I am convinced that we will not have LESS technology, but only MORE... and here are my other predictions:
-- Schools will marvel at the amount of money that can be saved by using free and online resources/texts... and will provide students with cheap, hardy netbooks for true 1:1 access. (And they shall give the saved funds to their MLS-degreed school library media specialists to buy plentiful paperback copies of all sorts of awesome leisure reading, databases, and more!)
-- Teachers will be able to tap into a huge world-wide network of mentor master teachers and be given ample time to devote to building their own personal learning community, which will be counted as informal continuing education!
-- School-type buildings will always exist but as learners age they will have more options to be self-directed and take the initiative to plan their own learning, much of which will take place outside the classroom and in their communities. Online courses now supplement what physical schools cannot offer but they will eventually be the norm - every student will be taking at least one course online each term with the potential to work with classmates from all over the world.
-- School will be year-round. (Trust me.)
-- Because of the flexibility of self-directed online learning, students will have a lot of free time on their hands. Arts will make a huge comeback as schools will be able to offer intensive training in subjects like music, sculpting, painting, photography, architecture, and more.
-- Educators will dedicate themselves to finding and developing each student's passion... and we will see an end of elaborate graduation rituals as students more seamlessly glide from formal schooling to apprenticeships and working in the field. We will find another way to celebrate these youths' authentic accomplishments as a community and recognize their "coming of age."
Want to hear the session? Find archived links here:
http://www.opal-online.org/archiveOPALescence.htm
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