What the Research Shows

Since many libraries and learning commons are considered the digital hub of their schools, it’s important that teacher-librarians are creating goals of what their space will look like or be used for in the future. Many of my goals matched the New Media Consortium Horizon Report for 2017, but I was also inspired to add other ideas to my list, specifically concerning artificial intelligence. While I have used AI in a few small ways, learning more allows me to use my time in the best way possible. And with AI appearing in more and more apps and computer programs, it will soon be part of our everyday life.

Year One

Two to Three Years

Four to Five Years

·       Support STEAM learning by introducing makerspace lessons to the library, planning both teacher-led and exploration-style lessons

·       Try new ways to engage readers, including Cedar Awards and book trailers

·       Invest in comfortable furniture to support independent reading

·       Collaborate with one classroom teacher to include their students’ work in the library

·       Become more familiar with Scratch


·       Create a ADST curriculum plan for grades K-5 focusing on computational thinking and coding fundamentals

·       Diversity audit, especially the indigenous section

·       Start a Lego robotics club

·       Create a section for student authors

·       Participate in more community-based projects, such as entrepreneurship

·       Research and advocate for new learning tools (eg. Spheros or Finch)

·       Integrate AI into my planning, teaching, and assessment

·       Revamp the library by replacing older books, specifically in the nonfiction and chapter book sections of the library. Both sections are quite out of date

·       Compete in Lego robotics competitions

·       Plan lessons that focus on learning how to use AI

Solvable

Difficult

Wicked

·       Collaborate with one classroom teacher to include students’ work

·       Diversity audit

·       Try new ways to engage readers

·       Furniture for independent reading

·       Start a Lego robotics club

·       Become more familiar with Scratch

·       Introduce makerspace lessons to library – there is a storage problem

·       Create an ADST curriculum plan

·       Create a section for student authors (where to put it?)

·       Compete in Lego robotics competitions

·       Participate in more community-based projects

·       Adopt AI

·       Revamp the library by replacing older books

·       Research and advocate for new learning tools


Works Cited

“NMC/CoSN Horizon Report > 2017 K–12 Edition.” The New Media Consortium, 2017.

Comments

  1. KappaBattaMay 15, 2023 at 8:09 PM

    Matthew commenting here....
    (1) What value do you see in AI being integrated/used?
    (2) What pitfalls or learning loses might come from AI integration?

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