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Networked School Community Invitation from Mal Lee
Filed Under (School libraries) by lorene on 19-05-2009
Dear Colleagues
Associate Professor Glenn Finger and I are currently working upon an ACER Press publication for release next year on what we have called Developing a Networked School Community – and Creating a Home-School Nexus.
Lyn Hay from CSU is writing the chapter on the Information Services and Management.
It is our contention that the networked school community will be the next phase in the on-going evolution of formal schooling.
Schooling has already moved in many situations from the traditional paper based form to the digital mode.
As the school walls come down and the networks open the way for schools to operate upon a much wider playing field so schooling will become ever more networked and collaborative.
It will in particular work far more collaboratively with the students’
homes and more consciously take advantage of their immense and growing digital capacity.
The reality is that the schools can, and are making the shift to the networked mode today.
Our desire with the book -
and the sixteen other contributors to its writing – is to explore the concept of the networked school community, the vision, its nature, the present situation globally, its resourcing, the rationale for moving to the networked mode and creating a home-school nexus, while at the same time providing practical advice on how school communities can make the shift.Conscious of the largely theoretical nature of the concept we intend using the tools of the networked world to test our thinking with the international community.
With this in mind we have opted to use the discussion facility of the Ning and created a site at
http://networkedschooling.ning.com
We would like to invite you and any of your friends, colleagues or indeed parent members of your parent community to contribute to the discussions on the concept and its introduction. As you’ll appreciate the potential implications for teacher librarians in schools operating within the networked mode are immense.
Kind regards
Mal Lee
