Transcript Library Essentials

Library Essentials: creating
the library appropriate to the
needs of students in the 21st
century
Mary Manning
School Library Association of Victoria
Sandy Phillips
Victorian Education Channel Manager
Department of Education & Training, Victoria
The Victorian Essential
Learning Standards
A new approach to organising
curriculum
This curriculum approach addresses
• The economic and social changes
associated with the development of our
global, knowledge-based world and their
implications for schools, and
• The growing evidence base about how
people learn and its implications for
teaching that works
A move away from increased
content towards:• A student-centred approach
• Developing the learner who can apply
their knowledge beyond the classroom to
new and different situations
• Autonomous learners
The Players
Students
• 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
• Net Generation
• Socialise online
• Chat, SMS, games,
simulations
• At ease in immersive
worlds
Teachers
• 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
• Print generation
• Socialise in restaurants
• News, current affairs,
reading, holidays, Parkinson/
Oprah
• Aliens in an online world
•“Technology as a second
language”
Three interwoven purposes
Students will leave school with the
capacity to:
 manage themselves as individuals
and in relation to others
 understand the world in which
they live
 act effectively in that world.
Three components
• The processes of physical, personal and
social development and growth
• The branches of learning reflected in the
traditional disciplines; and
• The interdisciplinary capacities needed for
effective functioning within and beyond
school
(we like it already!!)
Three strands
• Physical, Personal and
Social Learning
• Discipline-based
Learning
• Interdisciplinary
Learning
Balance and equality
• Knowledge, skills and behaviours in each
of the three strands
• Together the three strands provide the
basis for students to develop deep
understanding
• An ability to take their learning and apply
it to new and different circumstances
• The disciplines are related to the other
strands in a new and integrated manner
Novice learners to expert learners!
The development involves:
• Noticing features and meaningful patterns of
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information
Acquiring content knowledge that is organised in
ways to reflect a deep understanding
Applying knowledge in ways appropriate to
context rather than exercising one’s memory
Approaching new situations in flexible ways
• Autonomous learners
What
What is
is different?
the same?
Interdisciplinary
Learning /ICT
Discipline-based
Learning
Physical, Personal and
Social Learning
What does this mean?
Greater recognition of the personal
and social skills
Greater recognition of the cross
curriculum skills
Statewide standards in these.
Implications for school libraries
• Skills that have never been explicitly stated
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before are now acknowledged and standards
stated
Interdisciplinary skills and behaviours are of
equal value to discipline skills and knowledge
A whole school approach is necessary for
planning
Integration and collaboration required
Focus on what is essential for expert or
autonomous learning
Things to consider
• Collaborative approaches (planning teams)
• Novice to expert learner (independent
research skills)
• Transferability of learning
• Student-centred approach (learning styles)
• Thinking skills (strategies)
• Assessment (formative)
• Rich ICT learning environment
LEADERSHIP
Learning as Teachers
Five stages of Integration:
Foundation
Integrated
Innovative
Leadership !
Transformative
ICT
•focuses on providing students with the tools to transform
their learning and to enrich their learning environment.
•develop new thinking and learning skills that produce
creative and innovative insights
•communicate locally and globally to solve problems and
to share knowledge
Thinking
The study of thinking enables students to acquire
strategies for thinking related to enquiry,
processing information, reasoning, problem
solving, evaluation and reflection.
Thinking validates existing knowledge and
enables individuals to create new knowledge and
to build ideas and make connections between
them.
Personal Learning
Learners are most successful when they are
mindful of themselves as learners and thinkers
within a learning community. This domain
provides students with the knowledge, skills and
behaviours to be successful learners both at
school and throughout their lives.
•Self-motivation
•Engagement
•Responsibility for one’s own learning
•A “connected” global citizen
The Online World
• Supporting Global & Personal Learning
The Online World
• Supporting Thinking & Creativity
BLOGGING
Literature
The Online World
Supporting different Learning Styles
Movie
Life in the trenches
Virtual Tour
Life in the trenches
Timeline: Persecution and Genocide
Under the Nazis 1933 - 1945
iMovie creations
“We didn’t start the fire”
Educator designed activity
Springfield USA
Scaffolding for Thinking
Hotlist/ Web
Hunts
WebQuest – Real Ones!!!
•Problem-solving
• List of sites
• Theme/ Topic
Based
•Fact Finding
•Critical thinking
•Team building and team work
•Persistence
•Creative and lateral thinking
•Reporting back
We Didn’t start the fire
Hotlist/ Web Hunts
•Groups / Individual
WebQuest – Create Thinking
Open Questions
What had global impact? Why?
What criteria was used?
Debate
•“Surf the net”
Transformative Thinking
What would feature in a song/ Rap from
Aust/ NZ / HK
• Fact Finding
Creative Thinking
Maybe create one
• Discussion
The song ends in 1982 what significant
events would you feature in the iMOVIE?
Create
• Reporting back
Personal Learning / Reflection
What events in your life have been
significant?
WebQuests
• Best WebQuests www.bestwebquests.com
TOM MARCH
• Bendigo Senior Secondary College
LISA HAYMAN
Webquest of the Year
SLAV / Education Channel
The Way Things Work
Catering for
camp
China’ s Great Inventions
Competition for this Year – Collaboration
In the words of Stephen Heppell
Let us be the Leaders to …
……the environment needed to fast track
everyone towards the kind of delightful,
engaging, seductive, stretching, changing
environment that our young learners need.
Commonwealth Education Ministers Conference
Prof Stephen Heppell
November 28th 2000
http://rubble.heppell.net/ccem/nova.html