Welcome to the wiki page for the 2011 Champions of the Digital Frontier Collaborative Study - Using New Media to Reach Today's Learners! This study, designed specifically for district media coordinators will explore three books written by some of the foremost thinkers in new media and education. All online resources for the study will be made available here. Our online book chats will be archived and added here as well as the study progresses.

Announcement/Flyer - Media_BookStudy2011.pdf (This includes an overview and our focus chapters for each book.)

Books and Chat Resources

Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning by Marc Prensky

Chat 1 Archive - https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2011-04-26.0745.M.B1C56521EA7E495F464630AD2B7F8D.vcr&sid=voffice

Resources and Links for Chat#1 (from Julia Hendricks!):

Website that goes with the book: http://21centuryeducation.weebly.com/3/post/2011/01/chapter-2-moving-to-the-partnering-pedagogy.html

21^st Century classroom, Project Based Learning and more: http://www.wcpss.net/curriculum-instruction/inst_tech/#it21

I also liked this resource for what a 21st Century Classroom looks like

http://www.pr2live.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/image-02-model-of-21st-century-classroom1.jpg

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/education/assets/images/ltc/news/2009/21CntClrmLayoutMed.png

Adapting your classroom: http://www.fluency21.com/blogpost.cfm?blogID=1864 Committed Sardine blog. Ian Jukes, posted today.

Are you familiar with Jamie McKenzie and From Now On? Great Resources for Questioning: http://questioning.org/Q7/toolkit.html

Students involved in planning/Lit Circles: http://littechconnect.blogspot.com/2011/03/can-young-adult-literature-promote.html

Sullivan, Margaret. “Divine Design: How to create the 21^st –Century School Library of your dreams.” School Library Journal. April 2011. pp. 27-32

Also available via web: http://www.slj.com/slj/home/889642-312/divine_design_how_to_create.html.csp

Favorite quote from David Lankes, SLJ April 2010. pg. 33 “Libraries are about knowledge and facilitation, not artifacts and stuff.”

More Resources and Links for Chat #1:

On Learning Spaces:

David Jakes' Learning Spaces Workshop Resources

Learning Spaces - free eBook by Diana Oblinger for Educause

Tools (the "nouns") that were mentioned:

Glogster - http://edu.glogster.com/

Evernote - http://www.evernote.com/

Cornell Notes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornell_Notes

Animoto - http://animoto.com/ (and an example from CFES - http://cfespcs.sharpschool.com/Academics/Specialists/Mary_Alice_Hudson/north_carolina_children_s_book_award/)

Quora - http://www.quora.com/