ENGAGING 21st CENTURY STUDENTS IN

HCS LEARNING COMMONS

BY PIPPA DAVIES

LEARNING COMMONS CHAIR AND TEACHER LIBRARIAN 2013

Blog to Teach!

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Engagement?

TRADITIONAL DEFINITION OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT FROM STUDENT DIRECTED

LEARNING• Reading critically (with pen in hand)

• Writing to learn, creating, planning, problem solving, discussing, debating, and asking questions.

• Performing/presenting, inquiring, exploring, explaining, evaluating, and experimenting.

• Interacting with other students, gesturing and moving.

OUR KIDS MATTER!

Our Kids Matter!

OUR KIDS WILL REACH THEIR POTENTIAL IN A 21ST CENTURY

CLASSROOM IF . .

• THEY ARE LOVED!• THEY ARE RESPECTED!• THEY ARE VALUED!• THEY ARE HEARD!• THEY ARE TRUSTED!• THEY ARE INSPIRED!• THEY ARE HONOURED!• THEY ARE SUPPORTED!

ENGAGEMENT OF VIRTUAL DL STUDENTS

• Responsive teachers and Responsive students.

• Effective assessment.

• Effective communication.

• Effective sharing in group settings of student’s production and work.

• Powerful portfolios.

• Constant encouragement in Live chat rooms.

RESEARCHENGAGEMENTATTENTIONDIRECTED BY STUDENTINTERACTIVENEWSWORTHYGIFTS

• 69% are social networking site users• 59% share photos and videos• 46% creators; 41% curators• 37% contribute rankings and ratings• 33% create content tags • 30% share personal creations • 26% post comments on sites and blogs• 16% use Twitter • 14% are bloggers• 18% (of smartphone owners) share their

locations; 74% get location info and do location sharing

Networked creators and curators (among internet users) Kaiser Report.

• The Mountain Man’s Cabin • HCOS Running Club. • Fitness Fanatics group walking across Canada.• Music, art Photography and Poetry groups.• Book clubs started by students like Lord of the Rings Junky headquarters• Video game groups, prayer groups, Grad Prep groups, Grad HRT groups,• Teen Geek Squad.

NING IS OUR CULTURAL AND PRODUCTION CENTRE

• Social networking rules/digital citizenship.

• Digital writing skills re blogging.

• Generates student voice/community.

• Digital sandbox!

• Empowers students and their gifts.

• Friendships and group sharing!

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LITERACY CENTER!Book Clubs= Professional development and collegiality, and Literacy!Adult winter book club.Junior Book Club: Grades 6-8. GPP Book Club Grades 8-9

LITERACY PROMOTIONS Read-A-ThonFlat Stanley wiki.Book Reviews.Scoopit Newsletter.Weblinking website.

Presentation tools; Popplet, Prezi, Webspiration. Podcast, Popcorn Videos https://popcorn.webmaker.org/

Communication Tools: Blackboard Collaborate, Collaborize Classroom, Edmodo, Blogs, Kidblog, Wikis, Glogster, Skype. Voicethread.

Literacy: book reviews, discussions,Trailer videos, learning new technology with Mac Imovie, Windows Moviemaker or Animoto.

Digital Literacy tools: Make stories transformative! http://bit.ly/14tTovaVideo Making https://popcorn.webmaker.org/

Disseminating, Curating; Mentor Mob http://www.mentormob.com/Scoopit: http://www.scoop.it/Gooru: http://www.goorulearning.org/gooru/index.g#!/home (established library) Organizational Tools:Symbaloo: http://www.symbaloo.com/Trello: https://trello.com/

Social networking tools; Ning, Twitter, Facebook, Edmodo

INQUIRY CENTER/RESEARCH THINK

TANKGOAL: Critical deep thinking, analyzing, researching,evaluating, creating and sharing! ACTIVITIES:Hook!Challenge!Build personal expertise!Helping students evaluate sources.Collaborative intelligence- social group sharing.

E Book Generation?

FIRST REPORT: THE RISE OF E-READING

http://libraries.pewinternet.org/2012/04/04/the-rise-of-e-reading/

21% of American adults read an e-book in the last year.

68% read a print book.

11% listened to an audiobook.

30% of e-content readers say they are reading more now.

THIRD REPORT: YOUNG READERSHTTP://LIBRARIES.PEWINTERNET.ORG/2012/10/23/YOUNGER-AMERICANS-READING-AND-LIBRARY-HABITS/

83% of those ages 16-29 read book in past year.

40% of them are reading more in the age of digital content.

Read e-books on phones and computers more than e-book readers and tablets.

60% visited library in past year.

Enhanced e books may lead to distraction and less recall, but very engaging.

Parents need to choose Kobo, Sony or Kindle, over enhanced books like iPad, for media focused literacy.

ENGAGEMENT WITH A PARENT 63% ENGAGED WITH BOTH E READER AND

BOOK

FINDINGS FROM COMMON CORE STANDARD

RESEARCH IN THE U.S. IN RELATION TO LITERACY.• Great books foster conversation, critical and

deeper thinking.• Non-fiction blended into reading

comprehension. • Reading across the curriculum will capture

struggling students. • Students read to learn! Look at different

texts and be able to evaluate them.• Replace memory work with analytical skills. • New Learning Outcomes to meet digital

literacy skills.

HCS E LIBRARY

The 21 century learning commons, is an experimental

highway which bridges collective learning and

makes it collaborative. Here students can play, explore,

develop and create ideas which will help them

become creative and innovative thinkers! Being a teacher librarian has never been so

exciting!

• How are you disseminating information in your school?

• Are your students evaluating sources, producing, sharing in a Knowledge Building center?

• What is your school culture? Where do your students find it online?

• How are your students leaving their digital footprint?

My ContactsEmail me at

pdavies@onlineschool.caSkype me at philippajanedavies

Tweet me at PippaDaviesFind me on Scoopit,Pinterest http://pippashcos.blogspot.ca/

http://hcslearningcommons.org/Building a Learning Commons

Wikihttp://www.schoollearningcommons.info

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