Birds of a Feather Presentation: Beyond 1 to 1

Jen LaMaster

Assistant Principal

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School

BEYOND 1:1

SO WHAT DO WE DO?

Context

Experience

ReflectionUse

Evaluation

CONTEXT

• What communities are present in the school?

• How are they articulated now, 3 years from now? 15years from now?

• Interactive strategies to build relationships between stakeholders. This is the new job of the leader…

• Imagine….

If someone walked into your school right now, what 3 things would stick in their minds?

The relationship between the material practices and the symbolic meanings that social agents attach to their spatial environments.

Thus the meaning of a text is not as much a quality of the text itself as it is an experience in the mind of the user.

- Ole Jensen

Discourse Analysis and SocioSpatial Transformation Processes

• Imagine…

How do you connect the dots between your work and student learning?

Between your work and school mission?

Between your work and those things that keep your Principal and AP up at night?

SO HOW DID WE GET HERE?

EXPERIENCE

• Physical

• Virtual

• Communal

THE PHYSICAL

• The practical workings within…

• Computer hardware/software, furnishings, designated spaces and traditional collections

Device, wireless, printing

Computer hardware

Furniture

Designated spaces to build, practice, create

THE VIRTUAL

• Beyond four walls and a roof…

• Digital library collections, online tools, electronic learning tools and Web presences (portal, website, social media)

LMS, social media, Google Apps for Education

Online tools

Digital textbooks, databases

Electronic content

THE COMMUNAL

• “Sites and places are never just locations. They are always sites for something and someone. “Spirit of the Place” subjected meaning that is contextually located in the community.”

Rob Shields “Places on the Margins”

• Workshops, tutoring programs, research collaborations, mission and identity, IT support

Mission and Identity

Access, Evaluate, Use

School Academic Objective

Best practices in teaching and learning… and raising children

Professional Development

• Remember – a media booth does not turn a student into a scholar… that begins to happen when pedagogy, design and re-conceptualized services come together

• Learning is not training… it is understanding and insight

REFLECTION

• What’s it take?

• Democratic Planning Processes – lots of stakeholder voices must be heard

• Time

• Surveys of need

Imagine…

• How will you make sure everyone who walks into your school sees the focus on students? Not stuff, not the view… Students.

Jen LaMaster

@40ishoracle

[email protected]

jenlamaster.com

WORKS• Educause,”7 things You Should Know About the Modern Learning Commons”

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7071.pdf

• AASL. Standards for the 21st Century Learner. http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards-guidelines#standards

• Heitsch, E and Holley, R. “The Information and Learning Commons: Some Reflections” New Reciew of Academic Librarianship, 17:64-77, 2011

• Beagle, Donald Robert. The Information Commons Handbook. New York: Neal-Schuman, 2006. Print.

• Donald Beagle (2010): The Emergent Information Commons: Philosophy, Models, and 21st Century Learning Paradigms, Journal of Library Administration, 50:1, 7-26

• Bennett, Scott. “The Information or the Learning Commons: Which Will We Have?” The Journal of Academic Librarianship 34.3 (2008): 183–85. Print.

• Worm-Petersen, Kasper. “Democratization of Design.” GRASP (11/7/13) http://grasp.dk/democratization-of-design/

• Eidson, Diana. “The Celsus Library at Ephasus: Spatial Rhetoric, Literacy and Hegemony in the Eastern Roman Empire.” Advances in the History of Rhetoric (2013) Vol 16, Issue 2.

• Shields, Robert. Places on the Margin: Alternative Geographies of Modernity. London:Routledge (1992).

• Healey, Patricia. “The communicative Work of Development Plans, Environment and Planning.” Planning and Design. 1993, Col 20 (1), p 83-105.

• Jensen, Ole. Discourse Analysis and Sociospatial Transformation Processes. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Global Urban Research Unity. Electronc Working Paper 28. http://www.ncl.ac.uk/guru/assets/documents/ewp28.pdf

• Most photos personally owned. Examples of school libraries over time:

• 1970’s: University of London Medical Library http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/medical-history/clinical-later.shtml

• Information Common: IU Bloomington Fine Arts Library http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IUB_-_Fine_Arts_Library_-_P1100227.JPG

• Learning Commons: Denison University http://www.designgroup.us.com/our-work/libraries/images/denison_university/04_dul.jpg