Teaching for Info Smarts: Learning to Learn

Teaching for Info Smarts: Learning to Learn

Super Conference Pathfinder 2010

How do we best prepare our learners for their future?

These organizations have thought deeply about the needs of learners now and in the future. What impact does their work have on school library programs?

Framework for 21st Century Learning

AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

The Horizon Report 2010

ISTE’S National Educational Technology Standards for students

National Council of Teachers of English NCTE

Conference Board of Canada

OSLA (Together for Learning)

Futurists and Business World

What lessons can we learn from the business world?

Brown, Stuart. Play.NY Avery, 2009.

Dweck Carol S. Mindset: the New Psychology of Success. NY: Ballantine Books 2006.

Fullan, Michael. The Six Secrets of Change. San Francisco:Jossey-BASS. 2008.

Gardner, Howard. 5 Minds for the Future.Boston: Harvard Business School. 2008

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. NY Little Brown &Co.2008

Pink Daniel. A Whole New Mind.NY Riverhead Books. 2005

Tapscott, Don Grown Up Digital.NY McGraw Hill. 2009

Engaging the 21st Century Learner

How do we design program to engage learners to work and play with all kinds of information and make it their own?

Booth, David. It’s Critical. Toronto: Pembroke Publishers Ltd, 2008.

Jacobs, Heidi Hayes. Curriculum 21: Essential Education for a Changing World. Virginia: ASCD 2010.

Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Q Tasks:How to empower students to ask questions and care about answers. Toronto: Pembroke Publishers Ltd, 2006.

Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Building Info Smarts: How to work with all kinds of information and make it your own. Toronto: Pembroke Publishers Ltd, 2008.

Loertscher, David and Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Ban Those Bird Units: Thinking and Understanding in Information-rich and Technology-rich Environments. Salt Lake City UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 2005.

Loertscher, David and Koechlin, Carol and Sandi Zwaan. Beyond Bird Units: 18Models for Teaching and Learning in Information-rich and Technology-rich Environments. Salt Lake City UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 2007.

Loertscher, David, Koechlin,Carol and Zwaan, Sandi. The Big Think: 9 Metacognative Strategies that Make the Unit End Just the Beginning of Learning.Salt Lake City UT: Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 2009.

A little extra when you have time!

Web Tools 4U2 Use

Learning Tools at:

You Know You’re a 21st Century School Librarian When….

The Best of YouTube for teaching and learning:

AASL's Best Websites for Teaching and Learning at:

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