Bird units are fill-in-the-blank library assigments, or reports; the result of which is copying or outright plagarism. This book provides ways to ban such low-level activities and replace them with exciting learning experiences that link the library and technology into achievement. Models, sample units, forms, and links to popular educational practrices such as Understanding by Design are provided. The models work K-12 and across all disciplines. They work when teachers are interested in going beyond the textbook and the lecture. They work extremely well in differentiated intruction and in classrooms where the students cannot understand the textbook. The models show how to integrate information literacy and technology into learning topics based on state standards. The book is a companion work to Build Your Own Information Literate School. It's a guide for teachers as much as it is for librarians and technology specialists. Great for planning collaborative units and doing professional development with teachers.

Ban Those Bird Units!: 15 Models For Teaching And Learning In Information-Rich And Technology-Rich Environments

Politics & Social Sciences

David Loertscher

Carol Koechlin

Sandi Zwaan

Social Sciences

Hi Willow Research and Publishing

The authors of the popular Ban Those Bird Units have joined their talents once more to provide more ways to create very high-level think units when teachers bring learning activities into the information-rich and technology-rich environment of the library. The new volume adds three new models to the original 15, provides planning sheets for each model, presents all new learning activities, and concentrates on the culminating high-think activities of a teacher/librarian collaboration. If you already own Ban Those Bird Units, this volume will add many new ideas to your repertoire. If not, then acquire this volume for an introduction to significant learning activities where plagiarism is no longer an issue. The book also includes additional (18 in all) think models and planning guides, plus fresh unit ideas.

Beyond Bird Units! Thinking and Understanding in Information Rich and Technology Rich Environments

Sandy Zwaan

Hi Willow Research & Pub

Loertscher, Koechlin, and Zwaan team up in this book to rethink everything about the function and role of school libraries and computer labs. It is often a case of 180 degree reconsideration. What does this mean? The profession has been on a command and control model: If we build it, they will come. We build a website and expect students and teachers to use it on our terms. They Google, instead. We expect teachers to appreciate the collections we build. They want classroom collections. We open our doors during the school day. Our patrons want 24/7-365 service.

The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win

Education & Teaching

David V. Loertscher

Schools & Teaching

The typical research assignment might consist of a selection of a topic and the interception of information resulting in a product of some kind that is graded. The end. Next topic, please. However, football coaches approach things quite differently. Yes there is the daily practice culminating in the game. But they videotape the game for a specific reason. Monday, everyone analyzes the game. Put your ego at the door. Watch. Analyze. Synthesize. What when on? How did I do; how did we do; what can we do to get better? If this reflection activity is omitted, the players don t get any better. Neither do the coaches. The Big Think introduces the same reflection strategies for both classroom teachers and teacher librarians. Here are nine strategies to use as we analyze the game no, the learning activity, particularly when both the librarian and the classroom teacher have been struggling to improve teaching and learning. What happens to coaches when they don t get better across the season? What happens to the players? In the same way, we posit that there must be a reflection activity at the end of the unit a metacognitive activity that looks back over the learning event that just occurred. Leave it out at your own risk. There is much talk about metacognition in education. It is part of critical thinking and creative thinking. Everyone seems to understand that it should happen but in our look across the educational literature, it is one of those assumptions that it automatically happens when we have little evidence that it does. This trio of authors have created nine strategies that become the cherry atop the whipped cream of a unit sundae. Each strategy can be used to ascertain two major successes or failures: Content learning (what I know; what we know) and Process (how I learned; how we learned) followed by So What? and What s Next? Such activities give the teacher librarian and the classroom teacher real evidence of what students know, are able to do, and what they deeply understand. We recommend these ideas strongly in the current results milieu. If you have enjoyed this trio s work in the past, don t miss this one!

The Big Think: 9 Metacognative Strategies that Make the Unit End Just the Beginning of Learning

People: Think Models for Collaborative Knowledge Building

Since the publication of the original best selling edition, the authors and users have discovered even more effective ways of constructing super learning experiences. Thus, every unit of study represented in the original volume has been updated and improved to demonstrate powerful ways of boosting thinking and learning through technology. The book provides 18 powerful instructional designs with examples across the disciplines and grade levels that can be used by teachers, teacher librarians, and teacher technologist to maximize both content knowledge and 21st Century Skills. And, at the conclusion of each learning experience, the authors demonstrate metacognitive strategies to probe what was learned and how future learning experiences can be improved. An essential tool for collaborative construction and assessment of learning!

Beyond Bird Units! Thinking and Understanding in Information-Rich and Technology-Rich Environments

Originally published in 2008, the first edition of this book proposed a complete rethinking of the school library and computer lab in a 21st century school. After four years, the concepts of the Learning Commons have gained momentum across North America and in Australia. This second edition is rich in the further development of the concept and its implementation and draws upon many schools that have developed their programs and recreated their physical space and turned their library websites into virtual learning commons. For those who purchase the print edition, a Book2Cloud version is accessible. In this collaborative digital work, the many links to resources are live and readers can comment, add material and join with other readers in the discussion beyond what a static ebook version would have been. Every chapter has been totally revised and rethought to include the latest research in education, technology, and library science. The book also contains a new chapter concerning the bu

The New Learning Commons: Where Learners Win!: Reinventing School Libraries and Computer Labs

This book is a companion to and an extension of, The New Learning Commons Where Learners Win 2nd edition, published in 2011. In that volume, we presented the idea that the school library and computer lab be merged into a single entity in the school, and that this new place be reinvented from the ground up in order to become a giant collaborative. In the past year, as we have watched Learning Commons develop around North America, we have discerned the need to elaborate on the virtual part of the the Learning Commons that would replace the often bypassed school library website.

The Virtual Learning Commons

Esther Rosenfeld

This manual supports grades K-6. It is one part of a two part set; the second manual supports grades 7-12. Both books are intended to assist teachers, school librarians, and leadership teams to create a flexible learning environment in K-12 schools.

The Elementary School Learning Commons: A Manual

Learning Commons Press

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