- Social Library for Life-long Learning and Teaching:
We provide the support you need to design and develop your 20th century library into a 21st-century space where action replaces quiet. You will use learning technologies and social networking services (blogs, wikis, twitter) to engage students and faculty in effective learning programs.
We embrace inquiry-motivated and collaborative learning, responsible and ethical citizenship, and critical thinking.
Standards for the 21st-Century LEARNER come alive in students’ projects, faculty’s lesson plans, and love of reading. Also see the Common Core Standards at the CDE website.
We work with the faculty to ensure that transitions from middle school to high school, and from there to college are effective, efficient, and meaningful.
We develop assessment instruments for measuring students’ progress in:
i) Integrating learning technologies in IL daily skills
ii) Digital citizenship (cyber-safety, ethics); also see cyber safety and CSLA’s teen learning
iii) Critical and creative learning: analysis, synthesis
iv) Love of reading
[see my paper “Letting Students Use Web 2.0 Tools to Hook One Another on Reading,” in Knowledge Quest, 40(3):36-39 Jan/Feb 2012)] For a full paper, contact zorana
To find good books, see the following sites:
Ready to Read books by Simon and Schuster (publishers)
Young Adults picks (ALA). Great portals include:
National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress and National Poetry Month
also see my catalog of all types of selected books
~more to come~
- Building a brand for your library:
Development and analysis of assessment tools (evaluation and feedback loops for students, faculty, parents, administrators and leaders, and library services).
We work with architects and contractors to design learning and teaching spaces that offer multifunctional spaces for learning, performing, displaying, and hosting writers, artists, and scientists. Some prior work:
Ercegovac, “Listening pays off: The salon @ Marlborough.” Knowledge Quest (Small changes: Bringing vision to reality), 35(3): 42-47. Jan/Feb 2007. For a full paper, contact zorana
In revamping old libraries into new vibrant and learning commons, we start with your school mission, your programs, and we collaborate with the faculty, administrators, students, and parents.
Zorana Ercegovac, PhD