1. NHS Media
Center: A Hub
for
Incubating Ideas
and Innovative
Learning
Practices
Norcross High School
Jennifer Lund and Buffy Hamilton,
October 2013
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4. Overarching Goal:
To elevate the library as a
learning centered space in
our school community.
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5. Part I:
Grand Vision
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Part II:
Challenges
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6. Part I
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7. Learning Communities
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8. Participatory sites of culture…
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9. communities formed around

10. communities formed around…
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11. Connected
Learning
Learner
Interests
Academic
“Connected learning, as its name implies,
works to connect these spheres more
purposefully.
The goal is not to fully integrate these
spheres of learning—each requires its own
autonomous space—but to build
connections, hand-offs, and sites of
translation
in order to reach more young people where
they are. By giving equal weight to all of
these different sites of learning,
we can create more entry points and
diversify the pathways towards learning and
opportunity” (65).
Peer
Culture
Source: http://dmlhub.net/sites/default/files/ConnectedLearning_report.pdf
Ito, Mizuko, Kris Gutiérrez, Sonia Livingstone, Bill Penuel, Jean Rhodes, Katie Salen, Juliet Schor, Julian Sefton-Green, S. Craig Watkins. 2013. Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning
Research Hub.

12. What we teach
When we teach
How we teach
What we can stop doing
Who else do we need to work with
Mathews, Brian, Andy Burkhardt, and Lauren Pressley. "Hacking the Learner Experience." Hacking the Learner Experience. SlideShare, 16 Apr. 2013. Web. 07 May 2013.
<http://www.slideshare.net/laurenpressley/hack-18938371>.

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14. Physical
Space and
Learning
Environment
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15. Playful learning
Shared/collaborative
learning
Performance Spaces
Opportunities for
Reflective Learning
Multiple literacies,
multiple learning
styles
Question Centric

16. Idea Paint
Reflects Student
Created Content
Dedicated space
for T&L
Flexible space
Furniture
Revamp/remove
shelving
Noise
Reduction/Echo
Reduction

17. Strategic
Weeding
Acoustics
Challenge
Design
Thinking for
Revamping
Our Physical
Library Space

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27. Common Ingredients
Program, service, or learning medium based upon a community
need
Focus on people, community, creation, collaboration
Playful, varying entry points of access, active
Meaning making comes from transacting with information;
experience as education

28. Collaborative
Partnerships
and
Communities
of Learning
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29. Teaching and Learning
Multiple Forms of Literacy
Community Partnerships
• Instructional Design
(Understanding by
Design)
• Pop up Professional
Development
• Research Processes as
Integral Aspect of
Inquiry Driven Learning:
Critical Consumption of
Information and Content
Creation with Rigor
• Deeper collaborative
work across curriculum
areas
• LibGuides
• Inquiry approach to
multiple forms of
literacy: traditional,
digital, information, new
media
• Critical literacy lenses
to contextualize our
work to honor alternate
ways of knowing
• Possible ethnographic
research of
independent reading
initiative
• Makerspaces and STEM
with Gwinnett Public
Library
• Self Publishing and
Writing with Gwinnett
Public Library
• Pathways to Learning
with Badging System to
Credential Out of School
Learning
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30. Alignment
and Mapping of
Library Teaching
and Learning with
Department
Literacy Goals
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31. What are
innovation hubs?
Hubs are collaborative cross-departmental groups in
which librarians and faculty come together on common themes of strategic
importance.
Hubs act as a “research and development lab” to explore, imagine, and
brainstorm new roles and activities for the Media Center and deeper understandings about
NHS in teaching, learning, and service.
“strike force”
They also are a
that implements, supports, and assesses
emerging library roles and activities as well as teacher initiated projects and
strategies.
Mathews, Brian. "R&D @ VT - a Quick Glance @ LearnHUB." The Ubiquitous Librarian. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 30 Oct. 2012. Web. 06 May 2013.
<http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/theubiquitouslibrarian/2012/10/30/rd-vt-a-quick-glance-learnhub/>.

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33. We will utilize existing data
and collect quantitative and
qualitative forms of data in
this process
Language Arts
Literacy Goal
Science
Literacy Goal
Social Studies
Literacy Goal
Mathematics
Literacy Goal
Learning Targets
and Outcomes
Mapping
and
Aligning…
Strategies
Assessments
Learning
Tools/Resources

34. As we embrace
experience as
education, we will
“run plays” for
innovative
learning practices
and vet the
strategies
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36. Media specialists as instructional designers and
learning architects who help provide diverse entry
points to learning for all students.
empower
align
transform
Practices with library mission and school strategic
plan
The Third Teacher. "Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013." Hack Class: Shape Your Ecology, Empower Learning at SXSWedu 2013. SlideShare, 7 Mar. 2013. Web. 06 May
2013. <http://www.slideshare.net/thethirdteacher/hac-kclass-tttpresov1>.
Creating a culture of curiosity, questioning, problem
solving, and participation.

37. Part II
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38. Instructional
Role
Management
of STUFF

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