SLAV+March+2011

[] Fantastic new learning places in their school library developed from Melbourne University set up. Centre of school. Impressive. The books are still the centre: low shelves so you can see thme moving around. RFID so that the teacher-librarian does not need to spend valuable time lending and returning books. Work overall has become more complex and multi-level. Library and teacher-librarian in the middle, ruthlessly useful, leader, crisis manager, etc. The old simplicity is not coming back. William Gosling: transformational change is "the knight's move". The tesselated pattern of the move arising from the varied interpretations of chess in the East and the West gives us a notion of how we can refigure our relationships with the many people we need to work with. Command and control economics vs value networks. Need to get all teachers into learning networks. "I link therefore I am". Diagrammatically representing networking shows which people are lnks and which are isolated. Some people working at powerful levels think schools are squelchers.They are the ones who have contact with the powerbrokers: presidents, prime ministers etc.. Play will be to the C21st what work has been for 300 years since the industrial age began. Daniel Pink: hich concept/high touch literacies. Need to build a new culture of learning becuase our best students are not our best learners at present. We do need dicsiplines to which we harness our learning. We need to build the stories around the discipline. Increasingly style and substance are coming together. Aesthetics and function are linked in the minds of our students. The literacy e shift. reading is becoming a team sport, for the purpose of belonging not enlightenment, vooks instead of books, linked fragments relace linear texts and the technologies are interruption based. Very few academics read a whole book any more. Are we the end of the reading classes? We need to manage the ecologies of interruption. Need to run a lot of professional learning to get teachers to redesign their work to meet the learning e shift. Not memorisation but problem solvingi, not instruction but direction and support. We need to clearly define perormance goals from learning goals. Learners need to self managed. Need the pleasure of the work not just the work itself. The antecedent for life long learnign was the cafe as in the French Revolution! A lot can be learned from the development of these cafe" palaces". Publications might be worth getting: How to Survive Best Practice for example.
 * Joseph Gerassi Bialik College:**
 * Erica McWilliam QUT:**

We need new routines so that we can meet the coverage culture's necessities with the learning culture's advantage. This is the educator's challenge. [] rethink - rebuild - rebrand. Think icentre. How much has really changed? We are currently living through a period of generational change. It is moving faster than pedagogy (among many other things). Library automation in the 80's and 90's helped libraries lead much of the technological change. What do you want your school library to do (not what should it look and fell like?). Function should inform the form. Role of teacher-librarian is the most critical aspect. The vision needs to be built on research and best practice. TL must support the local functional requirements. Instructional zone both within the school and beyond: Like the ipod, iphone and ipad we need to be making an adaptive reinvention of something that sort of already exists.The learning comons model is part way to this idea. Need to blast away the silo of knowledge concept. ICTCP: information, computing, technology, curriculum, and pedagogy. This would really empower the school in a vast number of ways. we need to provide: high end multi-media production facility; technolgoy engine of the a networked school; large flexible learning space based on fluid design principles. Layout will look different ona daily basis. i is aboit immersion and inquiry learning. i centre rebrands the staff and the provision of i support. Need to shift the mind set of clientele and administration. Branding is about aspirational goals. What do we want people to be able to see about us in a year, two years etc.Brand is not a label, it is a philosophy. Currently working on a relaunch of ergo, which is a wonderful site. The Library is built around a shape usually used for prisons! Learning for information commons. Learning commons concept focuses on what happens. Students need to understand that there is an impact of information technology that requires an understanding that information is ubiquitous and requires making choices. These choices need to be active not passive, conscious of the veracity of the sites they choose to rely on. Deep link to the topics that you are using. The material is available to use freely an requires the most minimal of referencing: State Library will do (obviously following the record book layout would be even better!). Lots of indigenous content: see the story of Tommy McRae []
 * Lyn Hay:**
 * fluid design - customosed and personalised; agile, transitional, transformational. "Imagine an activity and we will make a space for it".
 * blended learning environment: challenge of mobile technology and learning.
 * buidling capacity for critical engagement
 * centre of learning innovation
 * power of pedagogical fusion - the technical should not be the foundation of the teaching. It is an adjunct. Reduces barriers and saves the energy we spend protecting our own areas.
 * seamless search interfaces - need mobile interfaces.
 * a balanced collection - print, digital, range of formats combined to suit individual students. Lots of layers: and...and...and
 * valuing and supporting literary learning - develop independence as readers, the ability to sustain reading for a period of time, the "head" space to allow this to happen. We need to allow immersion.
 * Linda Angeloni State Library of Victoria:**