Student leaders help expand use of select cloud-based resources for information and technology literacy

1. Student Leaders for Information and
Technology Literacy
Get IT
Information Technology

2. Get IT
At East Side Community School

3. The scene: East Side
600 students 46 teachers 300 computers
(100 new)

4. More technology brings more needs:
to improve the quality of students’ sources
of information and critical assessment of
sources.
to promote synthesizing and representing
ideas effectively, responsibly, and ethically.
To provide support to students and teachers
in using technology.

5. Program Plan
Most school or district technology plans call for the inclusion of
all stakeholder groups as key to creating a sense of ownership
and support that will lead to long-term success. However, these
plans often ignore the largest stakeholder group of all—the
students.
-Martinez and Harper (2008)

6. Information literacy is critical thinking
“To be information literate, a person must be
able to recognize when information is needed
and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use
effectively the needed information. The
information literate individuals are those who
have learned how to learn” (ALA)
Knowledge and experience with digital media is
required!
American Library Association definition of information literacy:
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/whitepapers/presidential.htm

7. Goal 1: Prepare students to use digital
tools for information literacy
Objective I. 100% of 9th graders will attend sessions on
digital citizenship, review access to database resources
and access a Google account
Digital Citizenship
Students:
A. advocate and practice safe, legal, and
responsible use of information and technology.
B. exhibit a positive attitude toward using
technology that supports collaboration,
learning, and productivity.
Excerpted from ISTE, NETS for Students 2007

8. Objective II: 60 students will attend a series of
workshops/online lessons to prepare as student
leaders and be certified in the basics of
information and technology literacy.
• focus on selected tools such as: database resources,
Google searching, Google Docs, Delicious (social
bookmarking) and Easy Bib (citation maker).

9. Goal 2: Increase use of information literacy
skills and technology tools for teaching and
learning with student leaders
• Provide training to teachers on the GetIT project
• Involve student leaders to support the integration
of information literacy/technology in class and
through individual tutoring.
• Promote students as experts in the learning
community by involving them in:
– working committees,
– teaching individuals and groups,
– and leading technology projects.

10. Get IT in Action
Student Leaders Student leaders
give in-class give individual
support tutoring
Teachers use
Student leaders
information
work on school-
literacy and
More support, wide projects
common tech and and committees
tools opportunities to
collaborate and
share best
practices
Free, cloud-based tools will work at any computer and allow for easier teacher reviews,
peer feedback and collaboration, real-time sharing, and long term storage

11. Information literate students’
processes and tools
Adapted from Wendy Drexler, 2010 “The Networked Student Processes and Tools” retrieved from blog:
http://teachweb2.blogspot.com/2010/01/personal-learning-environments-student.html

12. Learning from Experience
• Get IT is similar to models based on student
leaders for tech education – Gen Yes/Tech Yes
and Mouse Squad with demonstrated positive
impacts on both leaders and school
community.
• Recommended strategies include good
preparation, providing structures for student
leaders (logs, help tickets or blogs), and
providing recognition and/or course credit.

13. Budget
Project Person/Est. hours
Prepare curriculum/assessments Librarian 45
Train teachers Librarian 6
45 Teachers in training x 1.5 hours Teachers 67.5
Train students Librarian/other 49.5
Support students/assessments Librarian/other 72
Marketing Librarian 21
Assessment Librarian 10
Total hours 271 staff hours
Marketing costs for printing/
teacher recognition $300

14. Timeline
Spring/summer 2012: Winter 2012/13:
• Assess teacher/student needs • Recruit 2nd group of student leaders
• Prepare curriculum, assessments, • engage 1st group of leaders
structures & incentive details • assess digital citizenship workshops
• Pilot project
• Prepare teacher training
Spring 2013:
Fall 2012: • Recruit student leaders
• Train teachers • engage 2nd group
• recruit students leaders • assess teacher perceptions
• Train 1st group of student leaders • analyze results and report
• recognize participants

15. Pilot Project
Current library interns:
• Make and assess a
demonstration project (such as
7 cool things you can do on the
NYPL website)
• Teach or tutor on how to create
username, change PIN and
access NYPL resources

16. Marketing: Goals
1. Attract students to become student leaders
in information technology.
2. Attract teachers and students to working
with information literacy/information
technology.
3. Promote the librarian and student leaders as
digital information management leaders
4. Get parental support for students to
participate in digital learning.

17. Marketing: Key messages
Want help with
getting your
class up to to teachers and
speed with administrators
technology?
Connect with Get IT student leaders in
the classroom to help teach basic
information literacy skills through free
digital tools:
• where and how to access information,
• how to assess it, organize it and use it
ethically and safely.

18. Marketing: Key messages
To students
(here in bookmarks)
Knowledge IS power IS knowing how
to use technology. Get IT.
Google like an expert. Get IT.
Information technology= finding the best
information and using it to make yourself look
good. Get IT.

19. Marketing: Key messages
To parents in brochure
Digital Information
literacy skills are basic
skills for success in the
21st Century.
Get IT (Information
Technology) trains and
supports student leaders to
assist teachers, peers and
the school with the
integration of technology
tools while giving student
leaders experience and
school credit.

20. Marketing: Promotional Strategies
• Advisory Announcements
!
HOW TO FIND THE BEST STUFF
FAST
T H UR SD AY
•
•
•
•
Principal letters
Hall fliers $
Bookmarks $
School newspaper
9 /2 5 /2 0 1 2 • Website promotion
3 :3 0
•
PM
Teacher recognition $
GET . I T • Brochure (for parents) $
GOOGLE LIKE AN EXPERT
Sign up with Andrea in the Library to becom e a student leader (10 sessions):
• Posters in library $
Session 1: Searching tips and tricks
Find good stuff • Video (near end of
Mission: bookm ark your best links with Delicious for easy access anywhere
Rem em ber, no food and drink at the com puter
program)
• Librarian e-signature
Im age by Sun Ladder/ flickr

21. Assessment: student preparation
1) Student leaders and a teacher will assess
and track student performance based
projects using checklists and rubrics:
 Leadership workshop digital portfolios in four
information literacy skill areas
 Digital citizenship workshops projects:
• Easy multi-media presentations on digital citizenship
(Animoto, Voki),
• Google Doc of Enrichment Binder
2) Surveys to teachers, students and
administration will give feedback about
perceived impact of digital citizenship
workshops and information literacy skills

22. Assessment: student leadership
• Survey teachers for
feedback about
impact of working
with student leaders
• Focus group with
student leaders

23. Get IT Student leaders will address
School Needs
 Prepare students to use digital tools for
information literacy skills
 Support teachers in integrating technology
Involve youth as experts in the learning
community
 Enhance culture of inquiry & technology

24. Credits
• Image of laptop cart from: http://ceg-pa.com/blog/2009/05/28/intelligent-laptop-cart/
• Image of ESCS students from: Liz’s advisory
http://www.eschs.org/www/eastside_newvisionsk12/site/hosting/YearbookMay27/lizadvisory/index.htm
• Quote from: Martinez, S. and Harper, D. (November, 2008). Working With Tech-Savvy Kids, Educational
Leadership. 88(3). Retrieved from: http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/tag/service-learning/
• Image of Atlantic magazine cover July/Aug 2008 from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is_Google_Making_Us_Stupid%3F
• Image of Time magazine cover December 26, 2006 from:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20061225,00.html