Reading Engagement
Reading Engagementhttps://natlib.govt.nz/schools/reading-engagement/understanding-reading-engagement/why-reading-engagement-matters
Reading for Pleasure
https://natlib.govt.nz/schools/reading-engagement/understanding-reading-engagement/reading-for-pleasure-a-door-to-success
The Power of Reading
https://natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/the-power-of-reading-pleasure-empathy-and-social-justice
Creating a school wide culture
https://youtu.be/kiOZQFLTwmQ
Inquiry Learning
Week 1
Understanding inquiry learning
The above link is connected to a number of inquiry model examplesThere are so many inquiry models to consider. It makes the job even harder. As I teach using an inquiry model the challenge is bridging the gap between teachers and how the library can support them in their teaching and learning.
Understanding Inquiry Learning
Supporting inquiry learning in kura kaupapa Māori
Week 2
Week 3 - National Library PLD Course 2019
Primary Source Artifacts
Inquiry learning video 2
Primary Source Artifacts
Other resources —such as people, places, and artefacts — can be used to inspire and inform inquiry learning.
- people — access to experts whose knowledge and insights can inspire or inform inquiry
- local resources — references to sites, places or events that can support inquiry
- artefacts — can be powerful learning objects to reveal something from a different time or place.
Inquiry learning video 2
Fertile questions are:
- open — there are several different or competing answers, any of which might be acceptable
- undermining — they make the student question their assumptions
- rich — they cannot be answered without careful exploration and there may be subsidiary questions
- connected — relevant in some way to the student
- charged — they have an ethical or emotional aspect
- practical — the student can research them using the available resources and time.
A Baker’s Dozen – 13 questions to help you determine if yours are Essential Questions:
- Is the question meaningful and purposeful?
- Is the question open-ended? Is it one that can be revisited, or has been revisited over time?
- Does the question require support, rationale, or justification, not just an answer or response?
- Does the question lead students to ask other questions?
- Does the question appeal to or trigger emotional responses?
- Does the question encourage intellectual examination and responses?
- Does the question center on a topic that is relevant to students? Is it a major issue, a problem, of particular interest or concern to their generation?
- Does the question encourage discussion and/or collaboration?
- Does the question ask the student to consider moral or ethical issues?
- Does the question encourage discourse, discussion, or debate?
- Does the question ask the learner to make a decision(s), create a plan of action, or come to a conclusion after examining related facts and issues?
- Does the question encourage higher levels of cognitive processing — analysis, inference, evaluation, predicting, synthesis or creation.
- Does the question lead the learner to important, transferable, applicable ideas that may cross disciplines or subjects, or help unite varied disciplines?
Watch Kath Murdoch discussing how to harness the natural Curiosity (TEDtalk) of children to generate wonderings for learning:
Picture books - to use to inspire an inquiry
Building a Responsive Collection
As the course comes to an end I conclude with an update on my action plan.
○ CONNECT: This course has offered a lot of pathways for me source information. As I knew very little to almost nothing about database and collection connections have been made durign the course. I am excited to spend time building the collection and the improving the way it is presented and structured,
○ EXTEND: My where to from here is to work alongside National Library to construct a Library Guiding Document, to continue to build on our collection and genre identification.
○ CHALLENGE: My focus in this area is look into online curation and database to support ebooks etc. Finacial support and time are also my biggest challenge as I am a teacher in charge of library. Once the guiding document is up and running this will become clearer and the focus may shift with priority as we move our library into a intrigal part of our learning base.
Building a Responsive Collection
And here are a few more places to get title suggestions:
- http://blogs.slj.com/
- https://www.goodreads.com/
- https://www.readbrightly.com/
https://www.readbrightly.com/
This week we looked at what books we have in our collection. The National Library has a great web page allocated to doing just this. Selecting and Eevolping resources
There is again a lot of information here and I have jotted down the next steps for myself.
I will begin to look at our junior novels and find a way that we can highlight these to make them stand out for our readers. I would like to call them quick reads or silimar so as to not sterotype them for older readers and young reads. i would like to begin to read several books a week and write reviews as well as encourage my librarians to do the same. I will approach the senior team and get them to take on book reviews as part of their weekly reading programme. By doing this I shoul dend up with a great bank of book reviews and recommended reads.
I am still worried that I have so much to do and am only really scratching the service. I will be enlisiting the assistance of national Library staff to get me started in relationship to The Guiding Document and next steps as I am passionate about doing a great job with the school library.
I have added a link to a blog page that is great for multicultural inclusive book titles
I have looked through my collection and know it is sub standard. It does nto meet the needs of our community.
I have been given tools and spent a few many hours reading the National Library site on how I can best improve our collection
My next steps are going to be seeking feedback through interviews with our priority learners on how I can meet their needs whenit comes to reading.
I also see the stronger need for a Library Document so we have sustainablility and direction for the future so as all this work I put in can be maintained long term.
Teen Librarian Tool box
Building a Responsive CollectionThere is again a lot of information here and I have jotted down the next steps for myself.
I will begin to look at our junior novels and find a way that we can highlight these to make them stand out for our readers. I would like to call them quick reads or silimar so as to not sterotype them for older readers and young reads. i would like to begin to read several books a week and write reviews as well as encourage my librarians to do the same. I will approach the senior team and get them to take on book reviews as part of their weekly reading programme. By doing this I shoul dend up with a great bank of book reviews and recommended reads.
I am still worried that I have so much to do and am only really scratching the service. I will be enlisiting the assistance of national Library staff to get me started in relationship to The Guiding Document and next steps as I am passionate about doing a great job with the school library.
I have added a link to a blog page that is great for multicultural inclusive book titles
I have looked through my collection and know it is sub standard. It does nto meet the needs of our community.
I have been given tools and spent a few many hours reading the National Library site on how I can best improve our collection
My next steps are going to be seeking feedback through interviews with our priority learners on how I can meet their needs whenit comes to reading.
I also see the stronger need for a Library Document so we have sustainablility and direction for the future so as all this work I put in can be maintained long term.
Teen Librarian Tool box
Well I have been successful in setting up my profile and adding to the forum. So that is a great start.
I will link my blog to the review page as a a way I can continue to build on my Blog for 2019. Hopefully my Blog will inform those that head to it around other parts of my learning also.
National Linbrary of New Zealand,
Developing Digital Literacy in your School
Action Plan Link
As above.
I will also need to begin to build an online platform where children can access great sites that have been curated. Staff to support this development. link staff PLD to this as when sites for math are recommended pop them here.
As above.
I will also need to begin to build an online platform where children can access great sites that have been curated. Staff to support this development. link staff PLD to this as when sites for math are recommended pop them here.
From Blog
As good librarians do, I went looking for a definition for digital literacy
“Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.”
Then the definiton for information literacy
“Information literacy is a crucial skill in the pursuit of knowledge. It involves recognizing when information is needed and being able to efficiently locate, accurately evaluate, effectively use, and clearly communicate information in various formats.”
Our library digital collection
Action Plan using Spiral of Inquiry, Evidence Based
My action plan
Week Three
curation
There are many skills and literacies embedded within the curation process. Here are resources to support their development
creative commas licenese has an outline about how youcan share digital content along side a short video that explains how.
National Library links on copyright and creative commas
Blog on suggestions on how to use a school library so it becomes an intrigal part of childrens learning
Week Two
Building a Responsive Collection and Developing Digital Literacy in your School
Connect - Extend - Challenge
Wow my challenge is before the connect and extend. There is a lot to this job, My challenge is finguring out where to start and progressions for the library moving forward. Drawing up a proposal for management in the hope that I can achieve a great space that is center to students learning.
Developing Digital Literacy in your School
Week One
Building a Responsive Collection and Developing Digital Literacy in your School
- Each week use the Connect – Extend – Challenge routine to structure entries into your Learning Journal:
○ CONNECT: How are the ideas and information presented CONNECTED to what you already knew?
○ EXTEND: What new ideas did you get that EXTENDED or pushed your thinking in new directions?
○ CHALLENGE: What is still CHALLENGING or confusing for you to get your mind around? What questions, wonderings or puzzles do you now have?
Developing Digital Literacy in Your School.
- Digital literacy, reading engagement, school library;
are independent and equal in supporting student literacy learning.
I have a small grasp of the connection of Digital Literacy. Reading Dr Doug Belshaw's Model has resonated with me to help clarify my interuptation. Through sourcing, creating and sharing information in a cultural way following citizersinship is what develops our learners into digital learners.
I was triggered by the comment made that Digital Literacy is not one to one devices rather the best/right tool for the job. This is another pathway of thinking for me to take as my experaince and conversations so far have been around more devices with the goal of one to one. I'm liking the concept of best tool for the job.
My wondeering is how in a yr 3 and 4 composite collaborative classroom can we best develop digital literacy for our children to move into the senior school. Secondly how can we develop our library to assist all learners into digital literate environment.
I have a small grasp of the connection of Digital Literacy. Reading Dr Doug Belshaw's Model has resonated with me to help clarify my interuptation. Through sourcing, creating and sharing information in a cultural way following citizersinship is what develops our learners into digital learners.
I was triggered by the comment made that Digital Literacy is not one to one devices rather the best/right tool for the job. This is another pathway of thinking for me to take as my experaince and conversations so far have been around more devices with the goal of one to one. I'm liking the concept of best tool for the job.
My wondeering is how in a yr 3 and 4 composite collaborative classroom can we best develop digital literacy for our children to move into the senior school. Secondly how can we develop our library to assist all learners into digital literate environment.
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