NHS Media Center: A Hub for Incubating Ideas and Innovative Learning Practices

Norcross High School Jennifer Lund and Buffy Hamilton, October 2013

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Overarching Goal:

To elevate the library as a learning centered space in

our school community.

Part I: Grand Vision Part II: Challenges

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Part I

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Learning Communities

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Participatory sites of culture…

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communities formed around

communities formed around…

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Learner Interests

Peer Culture

Academic

Source: http://dmlhub.net/sites/default/files/ConnectedLearning_report.pdf

Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning

Research Hub.

Connected

Learning

“Connected learning, as its name implies,

works to connect these spheres more

purposefully.

The goal is not to fully integrate these

spheres of learning—each requires its own

autonomous space—but to build

connections, hand-offs, and sites of

translation

in order to reach more young people where

they are. By giving equal weight to all of

these different sites of learning,

we can create more entry points and

diversify the pathways towards learning and

opportunity” (65).

What we teach

When we teach

How we teach

What we can stop doing

Who else do we need to work with Mathews, Brian, Andy Burkhardt, and Lauren Pressley. "Hacking the Learner Experience." Hacking the Learner Experience. SlideShare, 16 Apr. 2013. Web. 07 May 2013. <http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/hack-18938371>.

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Physical Space and Learning Environment

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Playful learning Shared/collaborative

learning Performance Spaces

Opportunities for Reflective Learning

Multiple literacies, multiple learning

styles Question Centric

Idea Paint

Furniture

Revamp/remove shelving

Noise Reduction/Echo

Reduction Flexible space

Dedicated space for T&L

Reflects Student Created Content

Strategic Weeding

Design Thinking for Revamping

Our Physical Library Space

Acoustics Challenge

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Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton

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Common Ingredients

Program, service, or learning medium based upon a community

need

Focus on people, community, creation, collaboration

Playful, varying entry points of access, active

Meaning making comes from transacting with information;

experience as education

Collaborative Partnerships and Communities of Learning

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Teaching and Learning

• Instructional Design (Understanding by Design)

• Pop up Professional Development

• Research Processes as Integral Aspect of Inquiry Driven Learning: Critical Consumption of Information and Content Creation with Rigor

• Deeper collaborative work across curriculum areas

• LibGuides

Multiple Forms of Literacy

• Inquiry approach to multiple forms of literacy: traditional, digital, information, new media

• Critical literacy lenses to contextualize our work to honor alternate ways of knowing

• Possible ethnographic research of independent reading initiative

Community Partnerships

• Makerspaces and STEM with Gwinnett Public Library

• Self Publishing and Writing with Gwinnett Public Library

• Pathways to Learning with Badging System to Credential Out of School Learning

Alignment and Mapping of Library Teaching and Learning with Department Literacy Goals

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Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton

Mathews, Brian. "R&D @ VT - a Quick Glance @ LearnHUB." The Ubiquitous Librarian. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 06 May 2013.

<http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2012/10/30/rd-vt-a-quick-glance-learnhub/>.

What are innovation hubs? Hubs are collaborative cross-departmental groups in

which librarians and faculty come together on common themes of strategic

importance.

Hubs act as a “research and development lab” to explore, imagine, and

brainstorm new roles and activities for the Media Center and deeper understandings about

NHS in teaching, learning, and service.

They also are a “strike force” that implements, supports, and assesses

emerging library roles and activities as well as teacher initiated projects and

strategies.

Original photograph by Buffy Hamilton

We will utilize existing data

and collect quantitative and

qualitative forms of data in

this process

Language Arts

Literacy Goal

Science

Literacy Goal

Social Studies

Literacy Goal

Mathematics

Literacy Goal

Mapping and

Aligning…

Learning Targets and Outcomes

Strategies

Assessments

Learning Tools/Resources

As we embrace

experience as

education, we will

“run plays” for

innovative

learning practices

and vet the

strategies

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empower

transform align

The Third Teacher. "Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013." Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013. SlideShare, 7 Mar. 2013. Web. 06 May

2013. <http://www.slideshare.net/thethirdteacher/hac-kclass-tttpresov1>.

Media specialists as instructional designers and

learning architects who help provide diverse entry

points to learning for all students.

Creating a culture of curiosity, questioning, problem

solving, and participation.

Practices with library mission and school strategic

plan

Part II

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Instructional Role

Management of STUFF

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