Teachers and professors often strive to bring students outside of a basic textbook/lecture environment and into the world of information and technology. This opens the doors for a teacher librarian to encourage students to inquire into the "real" world.
For Project 2, you and your partner will take a basic "bird unit" and make it an exciting learning activity that could be co-taught by teachers (professors) and teacher librarians. The lesson you create will embrace a rich information and technology environment in order to help students deeper understanding and stimulate the development of 21st century skills. Meaning, your new unit will be turned into a Knowledge Building Center (KBC) where your students can access everything online.
The theory behind this is that the MLIS student will then be equipped to develop learning experiences with actual teachers and professors, as is the requirement of Project 5. Throughout the course, each one of these experiences will get more and more complex as the various partnerships learn to construct KBCs and Design Thinking experiences together.
This is your first experience at collaborative co-teaching, so we try to make it a bit simpler and straight forward. You are learning the "Think!" models, how to use them in a Knowledge Building Center (KBC) created by a Google Site, and how to work with a partner whom you have never met.
Once you have a partner:
HAVE FUN WITH THIS - GET CREATIVE AND THINK WHAT WOULD ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS MOST!
Before submitting your KBC to the instructor, be sure to see the Transformation Rubric on the Tools & Tutorials page to check your work. You will be asked to re-work your transformation if it does not follow the the steps in the rubric and if the content of the unit has issues.
If two or three of you have worked on a single transformation, just one of you needs to submit it to Canvas. The instructor will send the comments back to that person and everyone will receive credit. When the leader submits, please tell me who the partners were.