LIBE477B.96A Reading Review Part B

LIBE477B.96A Reading Review Part B

Literature Research and Data Collection

Collect, link, cite, annotate and publish descriptions of about 3-5 different resources that you have found useful in better understanding your topic(s) from Part A. This blog post will review and highlight the resources as potential citations for your more detailed explorations later in the course. 

In researching my keywords, I seem to be opening myself up to heading down a relatively deep rabbit hole and discovering many other tangents I would like to research. However, I am also discovering through blogs of other students on this course, that many of these topics are being researched and discussed by others. This sort of collaboration is fantastic and I am now feeling more excited and less overwhelmed.

(This is the spot where I would like to insert a Sketchnote to illustrate the
various offshots I would like to research;
however, for now, I will stick to the resources I have found for a few of my keywords.
Sketch notes will be inserted later.)
For now...

Tackling the bigger pieces:

Where I am at right now in both my journey as a Teacher Librarian and as a student in this course I feel that tackling the larger issues of Future Ready LLCs and Future Ready Schools will be areas to consider when I am further along in my journey. (This Link will be for future reference.)

For now, I would like to concentrate on areas where I can collaborate with other teachers in helping make students Future Ready. 

INQUIRY - 

In the fall of 2017, I was fortunate enough to attend the Google Summit in Victoria. One of the most engaging and memorable key-note speakers of the summit (besides, of course, Aaron Mueller's fabulous Teacher Librarian workshop) was Trevor Mackenzie's talk about Inquiry Based learning. The key questions he puts forward have had me contemplating how best to bring inquiry into the LLC.

Why do some of our students become disconnected from their learning in school? Where does this natural curiosity go? And how, as educators, can we ensure all of our students experience a meaningful and wonder-filled journey through their education?

     --Trevor Mackenzie, author of  Dive into Inquiry (2016) and Inquiry Mindset (2018)

Here is the Link to Trevor Mackenzie's website and blog post.

What is Inquiry?
Trevor Mackenzie has a short YouTube video to explain: Click here for YouTube video (**I was not able to make my blog  view the YouTube video without having to click to an external link.**)

I also came across the Cool Cat Teacher blog by Vicki Davis. This episode has Trevor Mackenzie discussing 5 ideas to bring the inquiry mindset into the classroom.

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Inquiry Mindset co-author Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt teaches French Immersion kindergarten. Discovering that Trevor Mackenzie, a high school English teacher and a kindergarten French Immersion teacher co-wrote this book is very intriguing. I have wondered how to incorporate inquiry at all grade levels and subjects. "Better meeting the need of students" (Mackenzie, 2018) is key to helping students at all levels.


Here is a link to an article by Bathurst-Hunt where she discusses her shift in teaching to better meet the needs of her students: A Journey of Growth, Inquiry and Passion.

I also came across  Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt's Blog and have had a hallelujah moment. She is a French Immersion teacher and she is using English books in her kindergarten class! She has a wonderful explanation here on how she incorporates the book into her teaching using Google slides. I love this solution.

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I came across the Canada 2067 site, promoting the importance of STEM based activity in moving into the future. While I was initially considering not following this link based upon the omission of the Arts in STEM (I believe it should be STEAM), I'm glad I did follow as there is a list of 8 simple ways to support inquiry based learning which are quite helpful.

Rather than continuing down the rabbit hole, I will leave Digital Literacy, Makerspace and Library Learning Commons Spaces for additional blog entries.

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Bathurst-Hunt, Rebecca. “A Journey of Inquiry, Growth and Passion.”Http://Teljournal.educ.ubc.ca/, Nov. 2017, teljournal.educ.ubc.ca/2017/11/a-journey-of-inquiry-growth-and-passion/

Canada 2067, https://canada2067.ca/en/articles/8-simple-ways-to-support-inquiry-based-learning/

Coolcatteacher. “5 Ideas to Bring the Inquiry Mindset into Your Classroom.” Cool Cat Teacher Blog, 18 May 2018, www.coolcatteacher.com/e315/.

Mackenzie, Trevor - YouTube video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCyW1gLcwF0&list=PLlnprPsaC_NwaKCDUL2bgaF-lMroURFgj.

Rabbit Hole Image: click here for link

Focus Image: click here for link