The Habit of Mind Project Turning to research to improve our students' learning opportunities,...

The Habit of Mind ProjectTurning to research to improve our students' 

learning opportunities, engagement and results

The NeedIn medicine

• When practitioners encounter dire new patient needs, first impulse: tap research re causes, symptoms, treatment options, prognosis and future research

• Expert panels offer digests summarizing best practice, for rapid access

• Lifelong access to digests and full research databases is affordable

• Future practitioners thoroughly trained in why and how to tap the research rapidly and effectively

• Research written in same vocabulary used by practitioners and policy makers

In education

• Practitioners lack disposition and skills to tap research databases

• Some digests exist, but scattered and unorganized on a thousand different websites

• Access moment one graduates from preparation program becomes very expensive

• Practitioners trained to experience research databases as tool only for good grade on essay or bibliography assignment; can’t wait to never need to use databases again

• Research is written in its own, usually impenetrable jargon

Key elements of the Habit of Mind Project

• Negotiate deeply discounted access

• Infuse HOM activities into preservice methods courses and student teaching

• Pilot performance assessments of candidates’ dispositions and skills

• Assist testbeds of inservice educators and leaders to use research

• Provide “virtual librarian” assistance for effective searching – AASL & NHSLMA

• Survey collaborating associations to identify members’ pressing concerns – to determine which digests most needed first

• Sustain HOM via collaborating associations offering discounted access bundled with search support as benefit to members.

Key partners in the Habit of Mind Project

• Affordable access: Digital Opportunity Consortium (DOC), EBSCO and NEA• NEA 1st year grant 2013-14• NEA 2nd year grant 2014-15• EBSCO resources: expanded to include http://

www.ebsco.com/brochure/digitalopportunity

• To access HOM’s EBSCO resources:

Go to www.digitalopportunityforall.org/library.html

Password at log-in prompt (case sensitive, all CAPS) : EBSCO

Click on “Enter Library here”

Use e-books for full-text books, otherwise research databases

Pricing to Access Deep Web PortalMembers/Users Annual Price Per User

Plus Baseline Price from previous tierAnnual Price Per User-Including eBooks

Net to EBSCO Plus Baseline Price from previous tier

0-500 $34 $52

501-1000 $31 $49

1001-2500 $28 $46

2501-5000 $21 $42

5001-7500 $20 $40

7501-10,000 $18 $38

10,001-100,000 $17 $36

100,001-500,000 $16 $34

500,001-1,000,000 $15 $29

1,000,001-2,500,000 $14 $24

2,500,001-5,000,000 $13 $22

5,000,001+ $12 $20

Testbed Partners

1.NH IHE Network2.Manchester School District3.NH NEA Leadership Team4.NH Special Education Administrators5.Association of Teacher Educators6.Learning Forward NH7.NHSAA and perhaps a dozen NH

school superintendents???

Coming Very Soon: Virtual Librarian Support

• Virtual librarian support: DOC, AASL, NESLA, NHSLMA, Springshare and EBSCO• Retired librarians volunteer providing live/

asynchronous search assistance• Springshare donates use of LibChat tool for live/

asynchronous assistance• EBSCO donates free subscription for volunteer

“virtual librarians”

Key elements in the Habit of Mind Project

• Affordable access• Testbeds• Virtual librarian support• Digests (proof-of-concept)

• Associations survey members to ID digest topics• NEA year 2 grant: digest editor stipends

• The power of digests!

https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=uid&user=ns241094trial&password=trial&group=trial

Contact informationDr. Bob McLaughlin

Chair, Digital Opportunity Consortium

mclaughlinbob@gmail.com

Cell (802) 249-1159