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Learning Commons

Organization Chart

Job Description Update

Think about our program differently

Be leaders

Library program

School

District

● Transform school libraries

into Learning Centers (21st

Century Media Centers) in

all buildings.

● Expand extended

learning/tech center hours

to ensure equal technology

access for all students

beyond the school day.

GOAL # 1: Improve Student Achievement

Strategy B: Ensure all students and staff are proficient in information, technology, and

media literacy to be successful in the global community.

What exactly is a Learning Commons?

• …it’s a

collaborative

space created by

users that turns

the library into the

“center, the

network, of social,

cultural and

learning in the

school.”Loertscher, David. The New Learning Commons Where

Learners Win: Reinventing School Libraries and

Computer Labs (Hi Willow, 2008)

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"Learning Commons in BC." YouTube. YouTube, 06 June 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013.

What is a 21st Century Learner?

“Twenty-first century learners are always on, always connected. They are comfortable multitasking. They are multimedia oriented. Their world is Web-based. They want instant gratification. They are impatient, creative, expressive and social. They are risk-takers who thrive in less structured environments.”

Partnership for 21St Century Learners

How does a 21st Century Learner use a Learning Commons?

Inquiry

Whittier Library

Research

Pleasant Prairie Library

Collaboration

Whittier Library

Presentation

Bose Library

Reflection

Bose Library

21st Century Librarian

• Supports a personalized learning environment

• Integrates activities that reinforces the total school curriculum

• Embeds information and technology literacy within grade level content Stocker Library

21st Century Librarian

• Professional development

leadership

• Technology integration

leader and planner

• Collaborates with grade

level teams

• Supports

eLearning/eSchool/

Asynchronous Learning Prairie Lane Library

Learning Commons

If you build it….they will come.

NOT!

http://thoughtleadershipleverage

.com

Collaborate!

It takes a village…

...and not just lesson plans!1

Get Excited!

http://upload.evocdn.

co.uk

2

Get Current!3

Think like a kid. See, Hear, Do!

Play Theory

Multiple Intelligences

Aesthetics

● Dynamic

4

Market, Market, Market!

Youtube

Read Across America Event

Lesson Plan template

Schedule

iPad label

Family Night

Book Fair (PT conferences)

5

AND then MARKET some more!

School Library with Wireless Network

Reading Culture

•Digital Texts

•Magazines

•Print Media

•Book Talks

•Reading Clubs

Knowledge Building

(Instruction)

•Collaboration

•Space for teaching

•Multiple classes

served at once

•eSchool

Multiple

spaces

that should

be: flexible,

labeled,

and able to

be

scheduled

School Culture

•Library is place to

access

information

•Create projects

•Share information

•Collaboration

Technology

•Readily available

•Variety of formats

•Used to access

information and share

information

•Available for reading

and creating

Middle School

Define the Use

Surprise them

TEACH AND Learn

Computer Production

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Reading/Community area

Internet Research

Tremper Library

Tremper Library

Genre

Shelving

Virtual Learning Commons

• Google Sites

• Sharing Google

docs

• Destiny Home

Pages

• Glogster

• My Big Campus

• Screencasts

• How to tutorials

• Online Resources

• Ebooks

• FollettShelf

• OverDrive

• TumbleBooks

What have we been studying?

What have we been studying?

Christine O’Regan

Library Media Teacher Consultant

262-359-6233

[email protected]