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Where do we start?Where do we start?

The ProcessThe Process

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The Pacific Northwest Tree The Pacific Northwest Tree OctopusOctopus

What do you think you know?

What do you want to find out?

Where can you get more information?

What keywords will help you with searches?

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Teach THINK!Teach Learning to Learn

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It’s Critical!It’s Critical!A future literate culture will be determined not

only by its literature-fiction and non-fiction – but also by newspapers, magazines, television, computers, networks, films, hypertext, e-mail and other forms yet to be created.

We want critical understanding to become a habit of mind.

David Booth It’s Critical

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Design for High ThinkDesign for High Think

Sound instructional design

Collaborative knowledge building

Technology for learningGuided inquiryMetacognitionThink Models support DI

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Provide many paths Provide many paths Classroom teachers

can work to the benefit of many more students by implementing patterns of instruction likely to serve multiple needs.

Tomlinson and McTighe Integrating Differentiated Instruction +

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Background to Question Background to Question ModelModel

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Read, View, Listen ModelRead, View, Listen Model

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Education is about learning!Education is about learning!Integrating Differentiated Instruction +Understanding by Design

Carol Ann Tomlinson and Jay McTighe

Learning happens within students, not to them.

Learning is a process of making meaning that happens one student at a time

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Differentiated Instruction Differentiated Instruction in the Libraryin the Library

Learning Materials (Content)

Ways of Learning (Process)

Ways of Demonstrating Learning (Product)

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A Vision for the 21A Vision for the 21stst CenturyCentury

We will use the Read, View, Listen Model to help us consider how the Learning Commons supports Differentiated Instruction.

Read and discuss Pages 12-13.

Create a slogan to demonstrate the role of the LC in DI.

Tweet your slogan.

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Matrix ModelMatrix Model

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What (where) are you What (where) are you wearing today?wearing today?

Examine items you are wearing today. Find out where the items were manufactured.

Prepare a sticky note for each item

Share items with your group.

Create a matrix on chart paper to sort and organize your stickies. Types of itemsCountries

Stick your notes on the matrix in the most appropriate cell.

Share and compare with another group.

What observations can we make from the distribution of data in the matrix.

So What?Who are our major

trading partnersWhat next?

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Question Builder ChartQuestion Builder Chart Koechlin and Zwaan Q Tasks Pembroke 2006

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Where

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Establishing a Community of Establishing a Community of LearnersLearners

Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21stst Century Century by C.Kahlthau, by C.Kahlthau, L. Maniotes & A. CaspariL. Maniotes & A. Caspari

“Inquiry learning is a social process in which students learn from each other in a community of learners.”

Carol Kuhlthau Guided Inquiry: Learning in the 21st Century

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The Information to Knowledge The Information to Knowledge JourneyJourney

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Information to Knowledge Information to Knowledge JourneyJourney

Reading Engagement – pages 16 -17

Multiple Literacies – pages 18-20

Critical and Creative Thinking – pages 21- 22

Discovery and Guided Inquiry – pages 23 - 26

Learning to Learn – pages 27 -28

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Information to Knowledge Information to Knowledge Journeys in Greater Essex Journeys in Greater Essex County D.S. B.County D.S. B. Read and discuss

your section of program in the Learning Commons. Think about where you are now.

Consider ways to turn your current program into a learning partnership.

How can you involve more teacher and student input?

How can you help students to take more ownership of their own learning?

What virtual learning spaces can you build for learning together?

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Info Smarts - Learning to LearnInfo Smarts - Learning to Learn

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Learning to LearnLearning to Learn“Learning is the

work……whatever is taught must be steeped in learning through reflective action.”

(Fullan, 2008)

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Big Think about Content and Big Think about Content and Process:Process:

What We Know; How We Learn It

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The BIG THINK

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Bottom line –Build on student understanding to keep the thinking flowing!

It’s not a box!It’s not a box!

So what is it?Think about the box.Think outside the box.Open the box.Transform the box.

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GECDSB TLsGECDSB TLs BIG THINK BIG THINKThere are many

barriers in schools that keep us in ‘boxes’ that we are not comfortable with.

So What?In your groups,

discuss how the Learning Commons approach releases you from your ‘box’!

What Next?What action will

you take to use our new collective knowledge to transform school libraries and programs?

Lead the way!Lead the way!

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