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Hello, Baker & Taylor!

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

Howdy, Baker & Taylor folks! Here are the links to today’s Common Core State Standards 101: Beyond the Starburst presentation.

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Paige Jaeger on Library-Based Assignments Worth Doing

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

Love, love, love this quote by Paige Jaeger. See it in context in this blog post.

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Tim Gunn on Teaching

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

Looking through saved items in my Google Reader account, I rediscovered a brief New York Times interview with teacher, Project Runway co-host, and fashion executive Tim Gunn of “Make It Work” fame. Some of the questions tickled me then and reminded me, on the brink of winter break, of the essays I’ve just written for my major review, in which we must articulate our own philosophies of teaching and mentoring.

Here’s Tim …

Did you always want to be a teacher?

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you’re out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school. I loved learning, I was a big bookworm, I was a classic nerd — hated anything social…

What drew you in the end to education?

… I’ll tell you what was at the core: for my entire life, I felt like the answer was in the back of the book, like the riddle of the Sphinx. But in this case, every student in the class had a different point of view, and that was celebrated…

How would you describe your teaching style, on “Project Runway” and in the classroom?

I always say I have a Socratic approach to most things that I do. I pummel people with questions, because I need to know what they’re thinking, what they’re trying to achieve, what they believe the final outcome is going to be. And then I try to examine their work with them, and articulate as well as I can how well they are actually achieving those goals, or whether they are in fact delusional.

What makes someone a good mentor?

Someone who challenges students to do the best work they’re capable of, and a truth-teller about when that work simply isn’t good enough. I’m here to guide, I’m here to support, I’m here to be the cheerleader, but you’re doing the heavy lifting. If you’re thinking you’re going to be a little bird in a nest and I’m going to drop worms in your mouth, you’re wrong…

How do you go about giving negative feedback to students?

I’m just very matter of fact about it. But I will add, there’s one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it’s a distraction.

What advice would you give to other teachers?

Be a keen listener. I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you. We’re in this together. I want you to ascend.

Enjoy!

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New book by Peg Sullivan on library spaces

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

Book Cover for Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners, courtesy of the American Association of School Librarians

Congratulations to Peg Sullivan on the publication of Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners: A Planning Guide for Creating New School Library Concepts. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Peg on several projects, and her thinking on library spaces and flexible use is powerful!

From the press release:

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL) added to its series of Learning4Life publications with the release of “Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners: A Planning Guide for Creating New School Library Concepts.” Written by Margaret (Peg) Sullivan, the book focuses on planning contemporary school library spaces with user-based design strategies. The publication is available in both print and e-book formats, as well as in a print/e-book bundle, and can be purchased through the ALA online store.

“Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners” walks school librarians and administrators through the process of gathering information from students and other stakeholders involved in planning a resource rich learning space. Information includes how to create needs assessment documents that complement AASL’s “Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Programs.” Suggestions for adding meaningful aesthetic components and colorful renderings of sample environments are included.
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“This is an essential addition to every school librarian’s list of ‘must have’ resources,” said Susan Ballard, AASL president. “Taking AASL’s learning guidelines into account, as well as bringing her own uniquely qualified perspective as a sought-after expert in facility design, Peg Sullivan has done an outstanding job on behalf of the association in addressing the critical elements that must be considered by school communities to plan and develop library spaces as flexible learning environments.”

To celebrate the publication’s launch, AASL invites school library professionals to contribute to an album of school library concepts and share with others the learning space solutions and resource rich environments created in their libraries. To participate, join the AASL Flickr group “Library Spaces for 21st-Century Learners” at www.flickr.com/groups/aasl_libraryspaces. After joining, school librarians can share photos from their personal Flickr accounts by clicking “Add photos” and tagging photos with “aasl library spaces.”

Margaret (Peg) Sullivan is principal at LibraryResource Group LLC, where she consults with schools and architects on 21st century space planning for libraries. Peg has made a career out of her commitment to education. An advocate for education, she has been actively involved on both the business and professional side of the market. A speaker at national and international conferences, her recent topics included “Designing School Libraries for the 21st Century” and “Designing Spaces for Early Childhood Literacy.”

Congratulations, Peg!

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Badging Bibliography Bonanza!

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

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Are you interested in digital badging? Looking for peer-reviewed articles, informal articles, or blog posts about the topic? Today, HASTAC announced its annotated bibliography of over 150 badging resources, saying:

This Badges Bibliography has been curated by Sheryl Grant, Director of Social Networking for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition, and PhD student at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) and annotated by Kristan Shawgo, HASTAC Special Projects Manager and Ci-BER Library Liaison, and recent MSLS graduate from SILS at UNC-CH.

Why a Badges Bibliography? Following the flood of response to the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation’s Badges for Lifelong Learning initiative in 2011, and the release of Mozilla’s Open Badges Infrastructure, HASTAC decided to assemble this Badges Bibliography v.1 as a humble attempt to organize the universe of knowledge about digital badges. More importantly, we hope this bibliography will come to represent a cross-disciplinary approach that inspires questions, perspectives, and approaches to badges that reflect the inherently collaborative nature of badge systems.

This annotated bibliography is a first step toward organizing literature about digital badges, open badges and badge systems. This domain involves multiple streams of literature from education, learning sciences, library and information science, reputation systems, and systems design. The bibliography includes peer-reviewed and non peer-reviewed articles, blog posts, news articles, white papers, videos, wikis and FAQs. We acknowledge that digital badges are an emerging topic and we have attempted to include a full spectrum of viewpoints. In light of this, we have chosen to provide descriptive rather than evaluative annotations.

Currently, the bibliography is heavy on certain theoretical perspectives and certain approaches to this topic. We intend for this to be a collaborative bibliography and welcome submissions. If you have sources or streams of literature you would like to add to this bibliography, please send an e-mail to Kristan Shawgo at kristan (dot) shawgo (at) duke (dot) edu or Sheryl Grant at sheryl (dot) grant (at) duke (dot) edu. Please provide the citation(s) in APA format. As of February 2013, the bibliography currently contains more than 160 references.

Grant, S. & Shawgo, K.E. (2013). Digital Badges: An Annotated Research Bibliography. Retrieved from http://hastac.org/digital-badges-bibliography

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Snowy Day!

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

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Cory Doctorow on Libraries and Maker Culture

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

From an awesome guest post on the Raincoast Books blog by Cory Doctorow:

Libraries, Hackspaces and E-waste: how libraries can be the hub of a young maker revolution

Public libraries have always been places where skilled information professionals assisted the general public with the eternal quest to understand the world…

Libraries have also served as community hubs, places where the curious, the scholarly, and the intellectually excitable could gather in the company of one another, surrounded by untold information-wealth, presided over by skilled information professionals who could lend technical assistance where needed…

And we’ve never needed that more than we need it today. We’ve run out of places. What used to be public squares and parks are now malls…

At first blush, the connection between makers and libraries might be hard to see. But one of the impacts of building your own computing devices (a drone, a 3D printer, and a robot are just specialized computers in fancy cases) is that it forces you to confront the architecture and systems that underlie your own information consumption…

Every part of our lives has (sic) been permeated by computers, and these computers have the power to peer into our private lives, to compromise our finances, to shape our political beliefs, to disrupt our families, and to destroy our workplaces. That is, if computers don’t serve us, they can (and do) destroy us.

But for people who master networked computers and make them into honest servants, computers deliver incredible dividends…

So we need to master computers — to master the systems of information, so that we can master information itself.

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Internet at the library should be the gateway drug for building a PC of your own, from parts, learning firsthand how computers work, what operating systems are capable of, and what locked-down devices and networks take away from their users.

Making a PC isn’t hard, especially when you get the parts for free. The easiest way to get good at stuff is to make mistakes …

When you’re building PCs out of literal garbage, you can do no wrong. Your failures just end up back in the same dumpster they were headed for in the first place.

Look, we’ve got more computer junk than we know what to do with and a generation of kids whose “information literacy” extends to learning PowerPoint and being lectured about plagiarizing from Wikipedia and putting too much information on Facebook. The invisible, crucial infrastructure of our century is treated as the province of wizards and industrialists, and hermetically sealed, with no user-serviceable parts inside.

Damn right libraries shouldn’t be book-lined Internet cafes. They should be book-lined, computer-filled information-dojos where communities come together to teach each other black-belt information literacy, where initiates work alongside noviates to show them how to master the tools of the networked age from the bare metal up.

… The information is online, free. The raw materials aren’t just free, they’re worth *less than nothing*, a liability and a nuisance to be rid of. And the dividends are stupendous. Only through understanding the tools of information can we master them, and only by mastering them can we use them to make our lives better, rather than destroying them.

You owe it to yourself to read the whole thing.

Hat tip: @libraryraya

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What’s on your mind about inquiry learning in the era of CCSS?

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

Can you believe that it’s already time to start thinking about the back-to-school issue of School Library Monthly? As we’ve talked to readers over the past year, we realize that there are lots of questions that come up about carrying out inquiry-oriented practices “in real life.” Little bumps and barriers pop up, especially when you’re making adjustments to align more effectively with the Common Core State Standards.

That’s why we’re turning the SLM “Nudging Toward Inquiry” into a forum for answers to your questions in the coming year. Need advice on getting started? Assessment? Managing independent learners? Something else? Put your questions in the form below, and we’ll get cracking!

Thanks,

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Do you distribute badges? We want to hear from you!

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

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Do you badge? Are you distributing digital badges to motivate learning, track progress, or recognize achievement? If so, we want to hear from you!

We’re collecting narratives for an upcoming book on the state of digital badging, and we want to hear from you. Whether you’re badging in the workplace, in class, in a makerspace, in a library, or in an inservice, we’d like to hear your story. If you badge hard skills or behavior traits or somewhere in between, we’d like to hear your story. Regardless of whether you issue badges in games or for test results, we’d like to hear your story. If you’re open-source or unabashedly for profit, we’d like to hear your story.

Hop over to this survey site and share your experiences! This is a historic moment in the digital badging movement — be a part of it!

Thanks,

JJ Pionke & Kristin Fontichiaro

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Navigating the Information Tsunami: a “must purchase” according to School Librarian’s Workshop!

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Kristin Fontichiaro

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So many standards, so little time! You and your teachers are feeling overwhelmed trying to understand and meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In addition, you must incorporate the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner into your teaching. You might also be addressing the National Educational Technology Standards for Students and the ones from the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Help is here! Kristin Fontichiaro has edited Navigating the Information Tsunami: Engaging Research Projects That Meet the COmmon Core State Standards, K-5 (Cherry Lake Publishing, 2013, 95p., 978-1-61080-868-2), and it’s a must purchase for elementary libraries. The enticingly formatted, color-coded chapters are divided by grade level. Each is identified by an Essential Question (e.g., for Grade 3, “What do we do with the stuff we don’t want anymore?”), keywords associated with it (environmental science, recycling, posters, announcements), and most are accompanied by a “Tsunami Tip” (Finding Specific Words on a Web Page). Lessons list the standards and indicators and detail what to do each day, including learning activities and assessments. Reading through the lessons will make you eager to try them. You will want to keep this one right on top of your desk.

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