“Building a Toolbox”
One of the tools I came across while I was searching was the “ConnectedLib Toolkit”. I think this is an amazing research to add to libraries. In most cases libraries are seen as a bad way to find 21st Century “friendly” information. Because most believe that all libraries can provide are tangible books, this is an amazing way to not only promote a better Connected Learning environment, but to reintroduce the resource into a new light. This is more beneficial for the teachers and people planning these design challenges, giving them the resources to plan, develop, and assess programs that will help their students. This allows the teacher or the person doing the planning to really divulge what all is incorporated into Connected Learning. Because it is so adaptable for all different sorts of libraries it makes it worthwhile to add it to school libraries. It helps the teachers who are a little uneasy with the processes to become experts as well as teacher who believe themselves to be strong in the process to discover something they may have not known prior.
Another cite that I found was talking about the application of using this in the teachers own life, calling it connected teaching. Like the model presented in Pose, Wobble, Flow, including whatever you are hoping to pass onto your students should first make its way through your own life. Taking tools, Twitter is the one presented in the article, and making them, pushing them further, through the work of their own to be more. She gives the example of a teacher taking Twitter and rather than just being satisfied with it as merely a tool, she pushed it further and made it a platform for the ELA students to find and build a community that made an impact for them.
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