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IBAP (International Baccalaureate Asia Pacific)
Teachers' Convention held in Singapore, March 31 to April 2, 2007
Information Literacy Across the IB Programmes
Official website of the convention -- most presenters' handouts can be downloaded from there
Karen Bonanno: Advocacy, Reason, responsibility and rhetoric
Advocacy as deliberate, planned, and sustained.
Moving people from:
- Unconscious Incompetent to
- Conscious Incompetent to
- Conscious Competent to
- Unconscious Competent
Peter Woodhead from the ESF schools in Hong Kong: "On-line Learning Communities"
21 educational hubs, 16 of which are in the interconnected CLC (Connected Learning Community), allowing students to upload, create web pages, participate in forums, create links, create surveys, and manage tasks.
The CLC as a buffer zone between the physical learning environment and the virtual world of the internet.
Radm Lui Tuck Yew, Minister of State, Ministry of Education, Singapore
I found his speech on the internet, though it doesn't appear to be available from the IBAP website yet.
350 schools in Singapore, 500,000 students from ages 7 to 18
Just cut the curriculum by 30% in order to create more "white space" for teachers (an example of top-down support for bottom-up innovation)
Manga Alive!, where students create manage characters
Computer-student ratio is not 1:1, but 1:2
Read his speech for more info...
Ingrid Skirrow/Yvonne Barrett: What IS the role of the library in PYP?
See their handouts...
The two of them did a fine job of teasing out all the references to the role of the library in the official IBO documents, as well as trying to map the PYP transdisciplinary skills onto some of the most popular inquiry/research models.
Yvonne Hammer/Cathy Hill: The intersection of Information Seeking Models in the Research Process
See their handouts...
What I loved about their presentation is that they're the first ones I've heard to stress how Kuhlthau's emotions can be linked to the PYP profile and attitudes -- which is something I've been thinking about. The importance of getting kids to understand that we all have ups and downs in the inquiry cycle.
They took the list of 10 PYP profile attributes and grouped them this way:
The learner is using information.
- knowledgeable
- inquirer
- thinker
- communicator
The learner is developing values in using information.
- principled
- caring
- open-minded
The learner develops critical evaluation skills.
- risk-takers
- balanced
- reflective
I also appreciated their comparison of different inquiry models -- and the introduction of one new to me: Parnes
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