http://wlteam.blogspot.com/2008/06/what-is-school-library-20.html
…Now let’s strip away the technology for a moment and look just at the activities that are bolded above. Are there tools beyond Web 2.0 that we can use to strengthen our school library’s importance in our students’ learning lives? Let’s try the list of important themes and concepts again, this time mapping to non-technology things we find in strong libraries:
- Working together (combining individual research into a group project, being part of a broadcast team, re-enacting a storytime tale through drama, contributing findings to a community “graffiti” bulletin board)
- Finding and sharing one’s voice (via meaningful instructional projects that call on students to wrangle with authentic, real-world issues and share their findings with others — think about student research on global warming, invasive species, etc., a writing center where young writers can explore storymaking and storytelling)
- Responding to the work of others (conferencing with peers)
- Finding a community (book clubs, hanging out in the library at lunchtime)
- Expressing oneself in a variety of modalities(synthesizing research in a variety of ways that go far beyond a PowerPoint with three bullets per page, such as written projects, drama, songwriting, original historical fiction, original stories and puppetry, etc.)
- Learning through interactivity with content and peers(What can I learn from you? What can I learn from this source?)
After reading the above, I would like my graduate students to fill in the following sentence and leave it as a comment to this blog post:
My ideal school library is a place where ….