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Know & Go Updates @your Library Updates & Reminders Below are some Parkway Library Service’s websites that maybe of use to you. They are currently used by librarians, teachers, and students at all levels.
Parkway Digital Citizenship Portal bit.ly/pkwydigcit This newly created Parkway site hosts elementary and secondary resources, as well as, ideas for teaching digital citizenship. This is site is truly in beta, but off to a good start.
Updates to Parkway’s Hour of Code Site tinyurl.com/pkwycodes In the continued preparation for Hour of Code this site has newly added resources for 2019.
Kelly sent out an email on October 30th with several Destiny Discovery updates: Featured content on your homepage now appears as carousel, Learning Link titles now display under each image, letting you identify resources at-a-glance, and awards information is now available in a title's details. For more information, see Navigate Destiny Discover and Set Up the Homepage. ILL Reminder: please make sure that upon receiving an ILL you check it out to the respective patron. We have been running into the issue where books are not being tracked properly in the system because they are not being checked out. This is causing confusion when the book gets returned to the home library. Kelly also sent the instructions in an October 30th email just in case anyone needed help with the process.
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On the Library Services Resource Hub website at bit.ly/pkwylibhub you will find: The many resource websites created to support teaching and learning Library Program - guiding documents All the helpful links from previous newsletters Librarian Talking Points Makerspace approaches, purchasing, and reflection survey
Curates Digital Resources & Tools Helping students become Knowledge Constructors through the curation of information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions (ISTE Student Standards 3C).
The Smithsonian Learning Lab is about discovery, creation, and sharing. The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access created the Smithsonian Learning Lab to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials—more than a million images, recordings, and texts. It is easy to find something of interest because search results display pictures rather than lists. Whether you've found what you were looking for or just discovered something new, it's easy to personalize it. Add your own notes and tags, incorporate discussion questions, and save and share. The Learning Lab makes it simple. By encouraging users to create and share personalized collections of Smithsonian assets and user-generated resources, the Learning Lab aspires to build a global community of learners who are passionate about adding to and bringing to light new knowledge, ideas, and insight. What is it?
Why Use it?
The Learning Lab infuses real-world experiences into learning to build lasting knowledge and critical skills that take learners from simply finding resources to thoughtful selection, organization, and creation of new resources. Why Use It? Guided by our desire to create authentic, meaningful, and personalized learning experiences, the Learning Lab blends trusted resources and contemporary media for learners of all ages to: ■ make discoveries across disciplines ■ create new ideas ■ share their knowledge and creations with a global community of experts and peers ■ access vast collections in history, science, art, and culture ■ build lasting educational networks *Note: Terms of Service: The Smithsonian provides certain interactive features, such as blogs, for the exchange of ideas and information by visitors in furtherance of its mission. Accordingly, the Smithsonian encourages you to interact with its site, subject to the following conditions: Not for use with students under the age of 13. This restriction applies to the creation of user-generated content not the consummation of information.
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Empowers Students as Creators Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
New to Mobile Makerspace‌ Got Ethics? Card Deck 70 playing style cards with scenarios from four different ethical situations - Copyright (13 cards), Academic Honesty (23 cards), General ethics (15 cards) and Digital Citizenship (19 cards). Great for supporting citizenship in schools and community groups. What digital citizenship cards might you create from seeing this deck of ethics? Color coded and numbered, they can be used as a whole set with a large group, or separated into categories to teach about a specific area, or as station activities. No rules - just opportunity for creative classroom discussion and activity that generates questions and deep learning about difficult topics. Useful for age 10 to adult.
Make Beliefs Comix is a website and app to create comics, no registration required to print. Create Comics Online: Comic Strips, Printables, Writing Fun! ... Teach writing, storytelling via our online comic strip creation too
Do you Make, Innovate, or STEM it up in your library? SEL can be easily integrated into a Makerspace, STEM lab, innovation center and more. Check out Follet’s Pinterest board of articles, videos and activities on SEL and creating.
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Empowers Students as Creators Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences.
Something to share with families for the holiday break!
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Empowers Students as Creators
ISTE Librarians Network Presents High School Themed, Monthly Makerspace Challenges One idea is to have monthly challenges for the Makerspaces. Each theme would be broad enough to allow students to create any type of projects related to the theme - not dependent on what resources are available. You could also have a shared online space where the projects could be displayed, tagged and shared. Monthly theme challenge ideas: ● Show your School Spirit ● Make something useful / solve a problem ● Button Maker Challenges ● Arcade Games (Caine’s Arcarde - Global Cardboard Challenge ● Upcycling (creating something new out of old items) ● Carnival Games ● Best Built Bridge=3B's ● Crafts for school fundraiser - for example book character pumpkins that can then be up for auction or purchase ● Robot ● Mini Go Karts ● Fashion Challenge (upcycling, theme-based) ● Tie in with a popular YA book to movie release - poster contest, video contest, or take a theme or setting from the book (mazes, maps, coding from Maze Runner series) and design related spaces through library. Could do this with any popular teen book - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl could inspire cards for young hospital patients. A fashion challenge would be ideal for Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. Timed with the movie release, students could wear fashion designs representative of the Capitol - compete for most original. ● Lego city ● Trash to Fashion Show ● Book Character Costume created with a vinyl cutter Other Makerspace Resources from the ISTE Librarians Network:
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Diana Rendina's ISTE2015 presentations Google doc for sharing ideas (mainly for high school makerspaces) ISTE 2015: Takeaway Tips for a Library Maker Space by Jennifer Hanson Michelle Cooper's Makerspaces LiveBinder Adapted from ISTE Librarians Network
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Builds Instructional Partnerships Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. (ISTE Student Standards 2C).
Posts from the Pin - Amy Johnson
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Builds Instructional Partnerships Model for colleagues the identification, exploration, evaluation, curation and adoption of new digital resources and tools for learning. (ISTE Student Standards 2C).
Why Google Keep? Google's note-taking app is the best free program you should be using! Capture inspiration when it strikes! Keep is simply the quickest way to offload ideas, thoughts, and to-dos
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Create notes and lists, set time and place reminders, and check off your completed tasks. Add a collaborator to your notes and lists, then get things done together. Add photos and drawings, or just draw on your photos. Dictate your thoughts, Keep will transcribe them for you. Search notes by automagically created topics. Group notes together with #labels. Color notes for easy scannability. Access your notes on any device. synced automatically to your phone, tablet, watch, and laptop via the Google Keep website, or Chrome app. Use “Ok Google” voice commands to “take a note” or “add to to-do list”
Get the Parkway quick guide to things that you can do with Google Keep here.
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Designs Collaborative Spaces Provides flexible spaces that promote inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and community.
How Library Furniture, Space Design, and Technology Support Informal Learning Article from demcointeriors.com blog, May 2019
Informal learning is learning outside the traditional boundaries of the classroom. It stands in contrast to formal learning, which includes a curriculum, an instructor, and an assessment. According to Jay Cross, most of our learning occurs “by making mistakes, by experience, by asking the person sitting next to you.” In fact, researchers have posited that up to 75% of learning occurs through informal channels. Given that informal learning is such an important part of individual growth, it stands to reason that librarians should consider how to create space that supports this type of learning. Libraries are places of both knowledge consumption and knowledge creation. But how do you create spaces that foster informal learning? You should consider three key components when designing spaces that promote informal learning: furniture, space design, and technology. (Which are three of the six learning theory spaces that Parkway talks about in designing library spaces) Furniture ● Flexible furniture: Help to promote informal learning by allowing library users to create spaces that meet differing needs. Look for furniture on wheels or glides that can be easily moved and tables that can be reconfigured to accommodate different-sized groups. ● Seating options: Include a variety of seating options so users can choose a spot to work where they are most comfortable. These might include lounge seating, active seating, or chairs with arm desks. ● Work surfaces: Include a variety of work surfaces as well so that users can choose to sit or stand while using library resources. ● Collaboration tools: Inspire spontaneous ideation and collaboration with a variety of whiteboard surfaces, including dry-erase tables, mobile whiteboards, and dry-erase room dividers. Get ideas and inspiration for flexible furniture, seating, and collaboration areas: ● Flexible Seating Idea Gallery ● Active Furniture Idea Gallery ● Collaboration Solutions Idea Gallery Space Design ● Adaptable Spaces: Create spaces you can use for multiple events. Some spaces have constraints, but the more adaptable the space can be, the more informal learning can occur. Look for furnishings that can pull double-duty or that can be easily rearranged by users without your help. Mobile charging stations can provide power access almost anywhere your users need it. ● Quiet Spaces: Many individuals come to the library to consume knowledge. They visit to read books, browse magazines, look at genealogy records, spend time on the internet, and more. Therefore, your space needs to be designed so individuals can consume knowledge in informal, comfortable settings. Provide quiet places for individuals and groups, and design space for reflection and studying. ● Creation Spaces: Knowledge creation is also something many individuals have come to expect from libraries. Users visit the library to design objects in the makerspace, and they attend workshops to learn how to sew, write poetry, and cook. Support these informal learning pursuits by creating a makerspace or workshop space and building spaces for collaboration and communication.
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Designs Collaborative Spaces Provides flexible spaces that promote inquiry, creativity, collaboration, and community.
Get ideas and inspiration for adaptable spaces, comfortable areas, and creation spaces: ● Library Furniture for Multifunctional Spaces Idea Gallery ● 5 Products That Help You Power Up Your Learning Space ● How to Start a Makerspace Guide ● Demco Learning Commons, Award-Winning EDspaces Design ● Sioux Center Middle and High School, IA ● Natrona County Public Library, WY Technology ● ●
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Serendipitous discovery: Provide opportunities for individuals to randomly stumble across information through exploration. This requires having access to Wi-Fi, outlets, and computers. Technology exploration: Provide opportunities for library users to explore new technologies. Include technologies that are easily accessible and place them in an area that allows users to interact with them. Library users may have questions about new technology, so placing technology within easy access to library staff is another important consideration. Finally, provide ideas for how the new technology can be used. These ideas can be listed on a handout or written on a sign. Communication: Good communication is essential for supporting library patrons’ use of technology for informal learning. Include signs that let patrons know the technology is for their use. Additionally, create both written and video instructions for how to use the technology. Article from demcointeriors.com blog, May 2019
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
Leads Beyond the Library Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student and teacher empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning.
Talking with Community About the Use of Technology Many time we talk with community on tech-related topics like student privacy, online safety and acceptable use policies, but as librarians and leaders we also need to advocate with our community about how tech is transforming learning. It’s time to transform the conversation and focus on the positive learning experiences technology enables. And it starts when you share the exciting and engaging ways students are using tech in the classroom.That’s why ISTE created Your Edtech Conversation Guide, a free resource to help you include the entire school community in the learning process and fuel their interest in what students are doing in the library and beyond.From the ISTE resource a shorter, librarian focused Talking Points flyer was created for quick reference. Check out Talking Edtech with your Community. This document shares tips, questions for creating your library story around edtech, and opportunities for communicating with the community.
What does it mean to be librarian in the digital age?
#ParkwayReads - Literacy Inspires and supports the reading lives of both learners and teachers. Creates inclusive collections that acknowledge and celebrate diverse experiences and provide instructional opportunities to empower learners as effective users and creators of information and ideas.
Core Strategies for Working with Primary Sources: The Basics from the Library of Congress October 31, 2019 by Cheryl Lederle
Since the Teaching with the Library of Congress blog launched in 2011, they’ve published more than 900 posts covering a wide range of topics and suggesting various strategies for deepening student engagement and learning. This is the first of a series of posts revisiting some favorite strategies at blogs.loc.gov
The initial post started with some basics: What is a primary source? What might a teacher think about when selecting primary sources and structuring inquiry-driven learning experiences? But before delving into any of those concepts, view this short video hear what three teachers from PS153 – the Helen Keller School in the Bronx – say about the impact teaching with primary sources had on how they teach in their elementary school. See the entire post and how to select primary sources at blogs.loc.gov.
13 Books for Tweens by Katy Hershberger, Nov 01, 2019 | Filed in Reviews
Many librarians struggle to find books to hand to tweens and young teens, around ages 11-14. While every kid is different in terms of maturity and reading level, for many readers, middle grade feels too young and YA skews too old. Here are some of the exceptions librarians recommend: authors and books fit for middle schoolers, including realistic, fantasy, series, and standalone titles in both middle grade and YA. See the entire list at www.slj.com
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Personalized Professional Learning Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.
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ibrarian Reflection
Reflection is an integral part of continued growth in librarianship. Reflection helps us to develop skills and review effectiveness within our program and space. In each Know & Go newsletters there will be a reflective question as part of the Personalized Professional Learning section.This reflective practice is intended to deepen practice, challenge our approaches, and drive our learning. What do you feel what the most challenging with library programming, practice, or space this semester?
Integrating Social-Emotional Learning into Your Instructional Programs How can we teach social and emotional learning without adding to our daunting instructional responsibilities? Try embedding them in inquiry! Using inquiry and/or design thinking models, we can integrate social and emotional learning into our existing instructional programs. In this edWebinar, Jennifer McCarty Plucker and Michelle Luhtala highlight instructional strategies that enrich students’ lives by empowering them to connect with their feelings and empathize with others while learning core content through inquiry. Watch the Recording Here
Parkway Credit One option for earning Parkway credits is to participate in webinars and events, such as Edcamps, SLAA events, makerspace open houses etc. In order to earn participation credits watch the webinar or go to an event, then record your participation at tinyurl.com/webinars-events. Remember that district credit is based on the number of clock hours that you participate. Credit is issued as follows: six clock hours will get you .5 credit and 12 clock hours will get you 1 credit.
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