[MNASIS-L] Event: Transformation from Within: Creating a 21st Century Learning Commons

[Deanna Sylte, Admin. Asst.]

Metronet is pleased to announce their 3rd Annual Information Literacy
Conference!

 

Transformation from Within: Creating a 21st Century Learning Commons

Friday - June 19, 2009

University of Minnesota Conference Center - St. Paul

9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

 

Featured speakers: David Loertscher and Allison Zmuda

 

Registration fee is $40, but principals can bring their media specialist for
free!

 

Visit http://www.metrolibraries.net for more details and the link to
registration.

 

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A Learning Commons combines library and computer labs into a client-side
organization both physical and virtual. Its cntral idea is a facility built
on the idea that if THEY build it, they will use it as opposed to the
current notion that if WE build it, they will use it.

 

The Learning Commons is a giant collaborative, the center of school culture,
the showcase of excellence in teaching and learning, the center of school
improvement, and, is the place where technology is transformed into a force
for high level thinking and achievement.

 

Allison Zmuda and David Leortscher will explore the creation of such a
center and will demonstrate and focus on the types of teaching and learning
demonstrated in the Learning Commons that can radiate out from the Commons
into the entire school. The audience will experiment with various models for
transforming traditional learning experiences into high-level thinking, high
tech, and collaborative experiences co-taught by classroom teachers, teacher
librarians, teacher technologies, and/or other specialists in the school.

 

The presenters will explore the differences between academic computing and
instructional computing that help push Web 2.0 tools into the mix of
learning strategies to meet 21st Century Skills.

 

 

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Deanna Sylte, Operations Manager

Metronet

1619 Dayton Ave., Suite 314

St. Paul, MN  55104

Ph: 651-646-0475  Fax: 651-649-3169

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