patrick jones digital divide and diversity: 25% of users just playing bridges out of poverty
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Digital divide and diversity:
25% of users “just playing” Bridges out of
Poverty
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www.connectingya.com2. Format explosion: Responding to developmental
needs Case for comics “at least they reading
something” Guysread.com Its about customers, not
collections
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3. Information literacy:
deGooglizing School corps Teen Tech Week
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reminder VOYA articles Coolness Online spaces Answering the
public’s demand for shhhhhhhhhh
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measurement: What’s next What’s in it for
them Do we count or
think about why our work counts?
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community Only two ways Expected Needed Do the old math
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www.connectingya.comProgramming returns: Teen Read Week After school programs Book based programs
– Twilight, Manga, etc Technology as
program (DDR)
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Teens as volunteers
Not date due cards
Recruitment Partnerships Expand capacity
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www.connectingya.comYouth development: Why are we here? What does our
public want? “problem free
does not mean fully prepared”
Building assets
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10.Youth involvement plus programming equals success
Library 2.0 ideals Content creation Program development Mentoring and recruiting Utilizing expertise
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Why They Aren’t Reading
By the time many students reach high school, they equate reading with ridicule, failure or exclusively school-related tasks.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Students are not excited by ideas. They prefer to experience life directly rather than through reading.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Many active adolescents are unable to sit still long enough to read for any prolonged period of time. .
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Why They Aren’t ReadingTeenagers are too
self-absorbed and preoccupied with themselves, their problems, families, sexual roles, etc., to make connections between their world and books.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Books are inadequate entertainment compared to other competing media such as television, video games and the Internet.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Persistent stress from home and school to read constantly is counter-productive for some adolescents.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Adolescents may grow up in non-reading homes void of reading material with no reading role models. There is no one to pass down the value of reading..
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Some adolescents may consider reading solitary and anti-social.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Reading is considered “uncool” and something adults do.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Can’t find the good books
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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesConnecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick JonesPatrick Jones
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Consulting, training, and coaching for providing powerful youth services including library card campaigns and web projects