Curriculum Connections:The School Library in Full Flight

Karen BonannoImmediate past CEO, Australian School Library AssociationManaging Director, Eduwebinar Pty Ltd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria

A major centre of scholarship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria

Tales of destructionPolitical stoushFireCollection development challengesFactional fightingBudget cuts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria

The Great Library of Alexandria

Defining characteristicsCollectionOrganisationMaintenancePatron Group

“.. a collection of information selected for use of, and made useable for, a particular community.”Heather Phillips, The Great Library of Alexandria? unllib.unl.edu/LPP/phillips.htm

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

https://www.flickr.com/photos/davidstanleytravel/8577091763/

The New Library of Alexandria

Dedicated to recapture the spirit of openness and

scholarship

Collection – Selection of information

Print

Hybrid

Digital

Curated

Online

Organisation – Organisation of information

MetadataLibrary Management

SystemsResource accessibilityUseable resourcesResource sharingCloud computing

Organisation – Importance of personnel

Principals know: school librarians are the heart of the school https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bihGT7LoBP0

Maintenance – Place & space for information & learning

Designed for Learning: School Librarieshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nKzEYPKG1U

http://www.newcityschool.org/academics/the-mi-library

Hudson High School for Library Snapshot Dayhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/ohiolibssnapshotday/11074358043/

Patron group – community & services

Information overload

https://www.flickr.com/photos/verbeeldingskr8/3638834128/

The on-going explosion of choice of digital content and information increases the importance of information literacy skills as essential tools for distinguishing authoritative information from content that is influenced by various social, political, commercial and sometimes extremist agendas.

Insights from the IFLA Trend Report http://trends.ifla.org/insights-document

How will we know if the information is produced by a human or a robot?

“Information Literacy is defined as the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand.”National Forum on Information Literacy

http://infolit.org/about-the-nfil/what-is-the-nfil/

“Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an ability that requires both cognitive and technical skills”ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Digital Literacy Task Force, January 2013http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012_OITP_digilitreport_1_22_13.pdf

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/humanitiesandsocialsciences

/history/content-structure

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities/

information-and-communication-technology-

capability/introduction/introduction

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/GeneralCapabilities

/critical-and-creative-thinking/introduction/introduction

Identify the Australian Curriculum Inquiry Skills across all Learning Areas

Map to a pedagogical framework

http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/Curriculum/Overview

Mapping the Australian Curriculum for inquiry skills

http://inquirylearningblog.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/inquiry-skills-across-the-australian-curriculum/

Dr Mandy Lupton

Work in progress – Karen Bonanno,F-10 Skills Scope & Sequence of the Australian Curriculum and general capabilities

Pedagogical framework steps / stagese.g.ISP,Guided Inquiry Design,Big 6,Information Skills Process

Opportunity

Capitalise on …

“Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find,

understand, evaluate, create, and communicate digital information, an ability that requires both

cognitive and technical skills”

ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Digital Literacy Task Force, January 2013

http://www.districtdispatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/2012_OITP_digilitreport_1_22_13.pdf

Challenge

Rewild the school library

“ crucially, rewilding involves the reintroduction of species into particular

areas, species that were once native to that environment but over the course of time

and human intervention

have ceased to exist there”Macmillan Dictionary: BuzzWord

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/buzzword/entries/rewilding.html

Curriculum Connections:The School Library in Full Flight