What do you Wonder About?

WONDERPOLIS

The theme in the Ardmore Avenue Library for 2014-2015 is WONDER.

In our school library, students learn how to approach a research project through the six steps found in Barbara Striplings Model of Inquiry. I like to start with W-O-N-D-E-R because children just wonder about the world around them. Kindergarten and first grade students have no problem with this. They ask questions about everything. What is your favorite flower? Why? Why do birds sing? What do we have to go to school?, but somehow, as children progress through school, they stop asking as many questions, or wondering out loud. I believe that you cannot become a life-long learner unless you cultivate the need to ask the essential questions of the universe.

My goal for the Library

My goal for the Ardmore Avenue Elementary School Library is to create an atmosphere where there are learning opportunities for all the children through a Connected Learning environment where relevance plays an important role as students learn ask the essential questions to things they are interested in learning. The library will be a place where they can Wonder and Connect and Create, so that they can participate in becoming an integral part of the global community. It is the goal to create learning that has meaning. To learn more about it, please watch the video.

Connected Learning: Relevance, the 4th R from DML Research Hub on Vimeo.

Don't Be a Bully, be a Super Hero

Destiny Quest

Destiny Quest allows students and parents to search what books are available in the library. Watch this slideshow to learn about its features.

Destiny overviewteacherfinal3 from Carol Mortensen

Training Student Assistants

Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King

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Find Your Awesome

Fifty State Capitols

Thanksgiving what are you thankful for?

Thanksgiving -- What are you grateful for?

Thanksgiving fun facts from najlaisteaching

Kindergarten Care of Books

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Delete Cyber Bullying - http://www.endcyberbullying.org/

Do the Dewey Decimal Rap!

Martin Luther King, I Have a Dream

Martin Luther King Jr. Tribute

More PowerPoint presentations from Roni Jackson

What is a Blog

Just read me Maybe!

Asking the Essential Questions

For a comprehensive look at asking the Essential Questions, access The Miniature Guide to the Art of Asking Essential Questions

Work Cited: Paul, Richard, Dr and Elder, Linda Dr. The Miniature Guide to the Art of Asking Essential Questions. Foundation for Critical Thinking, 2005. Web. 28 Apr 2013.

Meet Sophia, the 21st Century Transliterate Learner by Mrs Fry

Exploring the Changes - Presentation from my Research Project

Making Our Learners Transliterate is Just as Important as Knowing how to Read

Read the full article by Teach Thought

Reflections on Transliteracy by Brenda McPherson Fry Our youngest learners to our college graduates and beyond need to become Transliterate. Just because children are born into the computer age, it does not mean that they know how to maximize the use of the smart phone in their hand, the desktop in the dining room, or the tablet in their backpack. Young mind still need to be nurture, develop, taught to use in meaningful way all the devices and tools they have at their fingertips.

Transliteracy for me it is the ability to read, comprehend, enhance, synthesis and develop knowledge across a wide variety of media platforms. Students no longer just read a book, they listen to the author talking about how his book was written. They access the internet through search engines, like Finding Dulcinea, Instagrok, and Google Custom Search to determine, evaluate, and identify information and data to answer the questions, and to question the answers. They synthesis the material they gather from all the sources available to them to truly be 21st century learners. These are tools that last beyond memorization and rote skills, beyond just reading and writing, these are skills that expand the mind, elevate the human race, cultivate learners who grow up to discover the cure for cancer, become productive members of the society.

We are at the precipice of change, we are no longer talking about the future, we are talking about the present, and librarians are the keepers of the knowledge. Their changing role will enable them to be collaborators with other staff members, to be the curators of information, and to provide the access and the tools to all learners as they grow and develop in a world that is no longer just about a pen, a paper, and an encyclopedia.