Here’s a follow up to a couple of earlier posts with two really interesting articles highlighting the ways in which the roles and methods of libraries are changing to respond to technology and the different needs of society;
Mindshift – Creating the Library of Tomorrow
The Journal – Library as a Digital Learning Space
In schools, I believe that the changed focus in learning, away from teacher-centric teaching that is wedded to a paradigm where what is to be learned is to be ‘inserted’ in to students means that libraries will play a far bigger role. A library, especially one that offers combinations of digital and paper-based resources, can provide the ownership and independence in learning that is needed for highly motivated learner-driven learning. I believe that in the future it will be vitally important that within schools we provide the support, gradually in age appropriate manner, to ensure that students have digital literacy, online safety awareness and media literacy that enables them to be critical users of data and information from a variety of sources in a discerning manner with appropriate judgement on efficacy, appropriacy and rigour.
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