Librarians:the best app?

Carolyn Foote, Westlake HS Library

Eanes ISD

@technolibrary

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Libraries are about learners.

What do we know?

•71% of teens say the computer they use most often is shared

with other family.

•23% of teens surveyed have a tablet.

•37% of teens have smartphones. (78% have a phone)

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-and-Tech/Main-Findings/Teens-and-Technology.aspx

Digital natives?

Teens “don’t try to analyze how things are different because of technology; they simply try to relate to a public world in which technology is a given.”

Danah BoydIt’s Complicated

Teens and libraries

http://libraries.pewinternet.org/

What can a 21st century library

look like?

http://www.pasadenanow.com/main/kids-in-the-kitchen-initiative-big-success

http://creativeartspaceforkids.org/

dschool

Libratory? Kitchen?Studio?

notosh.org

Social emotional supportphoto by Eric Schlegal

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Learning Commons

Student, Teacher and Librarian designed

Learning studio with technology, books, librarians, technologists and other learning specialists

Areas for individual or group work or classroom work

“If they build it, they will use it.”David Loertscher

“School libraries are not just a bunch of rooms filled with books; they are a national network of incubators for future economic potential.” 

http://www.theliteraryplatform.com/2012/10/why-school-libraries-matter-hint-its-not-just-about-the-books/

Jeff Norton

litworld.org

Who is the “21st century” librarian?

flickr: ncheng93

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/media-specialists-and-common-core-josh-work

I've always seen the media specialists as the Swiss army knife of any school.

Instructional partner

http://vanmeterlibraryvoice.blogspot.com/2014/01/and-just-how-does-rainbow-loom-fit-into.html

Global learning leader

Web designer

http://borchardtlibrary.edublogs.org/reference-tools/kid-friendly-search-engines/

Innovator

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/

Blogger

Sharing and “crowdsourcing”

http://padlet.com/wall/tlhack

literacy cheerleader

http://www.schooltube.com/channel/naomibates/

Info literacy specialist

Keith Curry Lance study

Studies show...

AASL ISTE NETS for students

How can you help?

Set expectations

Support, nurture & expect collaboration

Collaboratively reenvision

library

support p/d for librarians --conventional and unconventional

tech and lib related

Support professional development

Understand e-source complexity

Include librarians strategically

http://www.columbus.k12.nc.us/Great%20PLC%201.JPG

Support innovationhttp://brewsterkorn.weebly.com/

Make library a strategy

Strategy in Our EISD Strategic Plan

We will promote and support a robust digital-age learning environment to inspire student learning and creativity.

How, together, do we help our school reach its goals? Jennifer LaGarde (paraphrase)

There is an app for that.

Carolyn FooteWestlake High SchoolAustin, Tx

cfoote@eanesisd.net

www.futura.edublogs.org

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