Student-Centered Learning by Design by Jacquelyn Whiting
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Whether you are creating one for your library or just looking to keep your students engaged in authentic learning experiences, Diana Rendina has created this course to help you get past all the jargon and build the best makerspace for your school. Topics include building a culture of creativity, connecting your makers with others around the world, and using design challenges to keep students engaged.
Empathy can be an important academic bridge linking knowledge and understanding. Through her doctoral research study, Barbara K. Stripling concludes that students are more likely to develop empathy when engaged with primary sources as students can then see the people behind those sources.
Student-centered learning is meant to include an element of fun. If the students are engaged, enjoying, and manipulating the curriculum content, then learning will be magnified.
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Learn the steps to transform your research assignments into human-centered projects in both the library and the classroom with road-tested, easy-to-replicate exercises and web-based resources that will nurture your students' empathy and strengthen their talents for collaboration, creativity, and inquiry.
In this article from Edutopia, Teague Tubach chronicles the arc of a project-based learning (PBL) experience, from the parent's email that inspired it through an in-depth research process and culminating in interactive public exhibit. When PBL is personal to students, it can provide more than just content knowledge—it can also foster important connections.
Inquiry has come into its own. One central, all-encompassing shift which is integral to inquiry is the emphasis on student-centered, versus teacher-directed, learning. Relevance also ascends to a high degree of importance.
This conversation comes from Dustin Hensley, a high school Librarian in Elizabethton, TN. After his school adopted a Project Based Learning model, Dustin's library instruction became increasingly focused on community engagement. In this episode of "One Lesson at a Time," Dustin shares his experiences fostering student advocacy and harnessing student passion to create change in the community.
For me, letting go of my hard earned "library lesson expertise" and looking at ways to build information literacy concepts and knowledge about processes, skills, and research tools into other people's instruction has been challenging but worth the effort.
Problem-solving skills are required by most standards, but often they are elusive in practice. Problem-Based Learning (PBL) offers an exciting, student-centered method of developing this critical skill set. Join Jacquelyn Whiting and Dee Lanier to learn practical approaches to combine design thinking with game-based activities across disciplines and grades.
We are in a very powerful spot, as school librarians, where we can advise, suggest, and book talk just the right book for a person or class. It's our superpower! But this power goes even further: through the choices of stories that we curate, we are effectively creating the building blocks of a community of readers who then share ideas and build empathy.
With the push for personalized learning and student-centered classrooms, a shift to personalized professional development and teacher-centered learning is needed. Fortunately, school librarians know how to share!
One great way to help students engage actively in their research is to help them discover their own investment. Actionable research is the result of student-centered curriculum design: moving from assignments that ask students to "prove you understand" toward those that encourage them to "use this knowledge to make a difference." In this course, Jacquelyn Whiting shares the benefits of and strategies for helping students use research to apply newfound knowledge to a situation they can see firsthand in their own lives, strengthening problem-solving skills through direct, positive action.
Fourth-grade teacher Susie Alexander shares a feel-good collaboration involving empathy and community service.
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