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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
Cell (802) 249-1159
