SLJ Summit--Thinking about Disruption

Hello--
Here in Philadelphia with the MSLA crew at the  School Library Journal Leadership Summit.  Our topic is advocacy.  We are starting the day talking about the disruption in our culture as we get used to living in the 21st century.  The focus of the day is advocacy and how librarians lead in this new culture.  Focus is on how to create cultural spaces for contemporary learners--we need to have spaces where people search, connect, communicate and make!  We need to get kids in the room and get them excited.  Want to follow along?  Here are the slides etc:  http://todaysmeet.com/slj2012

Some fun ideas already--

• tweet as a book character--create a hashtag; assign kids characters and throw out some questions--have a twitter meeting!
• show your teachers a text book and then show them what it cannot do!  You can't touch a word and get the definition; you can't swipe the corners of a photo and get it to enlarge; you can't run a search for a topic--so maybe an e-book has some advantages!
• The word "book" used to be so simple!  (love that)
• Number one skill kids need in this century is curation capability--wow!

More coming!

Judi P.