Clark Creek Media Center: Trending toward becoming a Learning Commons

1. Clark Creek Media Center: Trending toward becoming a Learning Commons

2. Characteristic… • To provide services to Web 2.0 users • To give the access to the most current technology to all students, teachers, and parents • Provide 24/7 access to all students, teachers, and parents through online databases, pathfinders, and additional resources. • Synergistic environment • Central location in the school

3. Why… • Although students are digital natives they still need to be taught how to use the Web 2.0 tools in learning and critical thinking • For students to be successful in the 21st Century they need to learn transferable skills • Therefore…they need to become critical consumers of information, effective problem solvers, capable decision makers and innovative communicators.

4. Empowering Learners • Everyone is a learner • Learning is personalized, individualized, motivating and enlightening • Multiple learning levels and styles • Flexible spaces seamlessly integrating technology • Empowering students to learn how to learn by watching everyone in the school modeling

5. How… • Physical Space & Virtual Space • Equitable Access • Learning Partnerships • Technology in Learning

6. Physical and Virtual Space • Create online meeting spaces for learning • Make resources freely available to all • Invest in e-books, databases, video-streaming and other relevant digital resources • Alter your hours of operations • Reduce the amount of furniture clutter and choose furniture that can serve varied purposes and be easily moved • Make use of new technologies in your displays and set-ups

8. Equitable Access • Differentiate learning • Make purchases to meet the needs of all learners based on gap analysis • Provide assistive technology when needed • Collect and supply tutorials by learners and for learners • Take advantage of student expertise

10. Learning Partnerships • Work with teachers and students to plan, teach, and assess learning • Explore learning networks to find experts • Rethink who your experts are and where to find them • Recognize yourself as a learner and model your learning experience

12. Technology in Learning • Consider BYLD’s even cell phones • Use collaborative virtual spaces for class projects • Use book marking web technology e.g. Diigo, Del.iciou.us or Shelfari • Explore Web 2.0 apps • Match Web 2.0 apps with student needs • Use interactive white boards and documents cameras • Explore gaming and coding e.g. Scratch • Share with other professionals through learning communities and personal learning networks

13. Resources Together for learning; School Libraries and the Emergence of the Learning Commons. Retrieved August, 2013 fromhttp://www.accessola.com/data/6/rec_docs/677_olatogetherforlearning.pdf 2011. Seven Things You Should Know About…The Modern Learning Commons. Retrieved August, 2013 from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eli7071.pdf Overly, Steven. 2013. The Download: Digital Commons, the library of the future. Retrieved August 2013 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-download- digital-commons-the-library-of-the-future/2013/07/19/e62bfde0-effe-11e2- a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html.