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Curious about the idea of a Learning Commons, for your K-12 school, that transforms the traditional school library into a vibrant learning community? Here, you will find the current crop of resources to give you lots of ideas and helps created by the authors and other colleagues from the U.S. and Canada. Two major concepts are presented below; but, check out the various tabs for lots of resources and ideas.
Check out this website for an overall view, with lots of vision ideas on how to transform the school library into a School-Wide Learning Commons at: https://sites.google.com/view/wholeschoollearningcommons/home
Here is the role that a teacher librarian can play, in the creation of the School-Wide Learning Commons at: https://sites.google.com/view/liiiitesmodel/home
The Digital Learning Leader: A Portfolio Guide
The Digital Learning Leader: A Portfolio Guide
at: https://sites.google.com/view/digital-learning-leader/home
he concept of a digital learning leader is a professional who brings to an organization a strong portfolio that demonstrates their contribution to teaching and learning. These leaders partner with a teacher, trainer, or instructor to fold in a wide variety of learning strategies in virtual and even face to face learning environments. They may work in K-12 schools, universities, business organizations, government entities or startups where any kind of teaching and learning is happening.
The major difference in their role from other specialists is that they roll up their sleeves alongside a regular instructor to enhance, redesign, or build a much deeper learning experience for the student. They go beyond observation and advice; beyond introducing a technology; beyond duplicating past practice from face to face into online experiences. To the planning, teaching and assessment of a learning experience they bring instructional design skills, technologies, learning strategies, social and emotional learning, and a major concern for equity for every student. They combine their expertise with that of their partner as they work to mentor each learner toward excellence.
The model below can be used by the digital learning leader to document their expertise in partnering on many types of learning experiences in any type of organization intent on education and training of young people or adults.
The Participatory Learning Community
The Participatory Learning Community
The School Library Learning Commons is a participatory learning community with attention to excellent instructional designs and use of best resources and technologies to help learners build personal expertise and collaborative knowledge. Everyone wins in this active learning environment where both students and teachers get better and better and whole school improvement is a natural outcome.
We propose a dual approach to the design of learning activities here in the rich physical and virtual learning commons environments where self-directed discovery learning provides empowerment for learners and runs parallel to cotaught project based learning of rich collaborative knowledge building and literacy experiences.
This framework provides a both/and solution to the problem of fixed/flex schedules for elementary schools and a catalyst for innovation for secondary schools while ensuring that the learning commons is always responsive and sustainable.
Discovery and project learning can operate simultaneously providing autonomy to learners as designers of their own learning.
Because experimentation with new learning techniques, resources and technologies is natural in the work of the learning commons we find that professional learning and consequently whole school improvement are key outcomes of the framework.
Download and print out for your use a copy of this framework: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tyotd-o8qo4MjhALyQOLrr3lGkCYwnra/view?usp=sharing
Virtual Makerspace: Here is a tutorial designed to help you create your own virtual learning makerspace for various age levels.
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