Part B: Critical Reflection Provide a critical synthesis of your reflection on how your view of the role of the teacher librarian may have changed during the subject. Before starting the MEdTL course, I wrote a blog post labelling a TL as a “jack-of-all-trades… teaching classes here and there, helping out a classroom teacher, being … Continue reading
Category Archives: ETL401
ETL 401 Blog Task 3 – Information literacy – a skill set, or something much more?
“Information literacy is more than a set of skills”. Present an argument for or against this statement, drawing upon the research and professional literature to support your views. It can be said that information literacy involves information skills and these skills are taught in schools today, most often as part of the library, but these … Continue reading
401 Assignment One Debrief
As I begin to write my 2nd assignment for ETL 401 I thought I’d reflect on how I did in my first assignment and where I could have improved my mark. It all comes down to two words – Inquiry Learning. But before we get to that, let me give a quick run down on … Continue reading
ETL401 Blog Task 2 – Role of the TL in Implementing a Guided Inquiry Approach
One of the many roles of the 21st century teacher librarian (TL) is implementing a Guided Inquiry (GI) approach along side classroom teachers. TLs initiate, implement, collaborate, perform, and assess, as well as many other juicy verbs, in this role. What is it? Guided Inquiry consists of a team (teacher, TL and other expert or … Continue reading
All right stop. Collaborate and listen. ♫ ♪
Be it school or business, collaboration is the essence of any good organisation. It might take some organisational change to go from an individual-centered, self-promoting cut throat organisation, to one that values collaboration between individuals and group success, but it can be done if staff are prepared for the inevitable confusion and conflict that comes … Continue reading
Topic 4: Information Literacy slideshare
I enjoyed this slideshare overview on Information Literacy through the eyes of Teachers and Librarians from the Quezon City Librarians Association, Inc (Philippines) I especially liked from slide 19 where it talks about different types of literacy (cultural, visual, media, computer, digital, network). At 122 slides it seems like a pretty comprehensive resources for teachers … Continue reading
One woman’s wandering? More like Wonder Woman’s wandering!
One Woman’s Wanderings With Web 2.0 Here is a fantastic video on one woman’s (wonder woman in my mind) use and development of web2.0 tools in her primary school class and school. She has done amazingly to first teach herself the tools, implement them with students, then promote the school’s and students’ publishings all over … Continue reading
Kuhlthau’s ISP – not just a model but a dead on play-by-play for a struggling uni student.
I have just read many articles on various information search models and couldn’t help comparing Kuhlthau’s (2012) Information Search Process (ISP) to my own experience with university assignments (especially as I have just completed two assignments for my TL course). Kuhlthau writes, “after the [information] search is completed, the topic understood, and the problem solved, … Continue reading
IBL → POGIL in the Foreign Language Classroom
After struggling with trying to envision how IBL could be used as the sole teaching model in a foreign language classroom (Japanese in my case – see my previous blog post), I stumbled across an article by Johnson (2011) on the use of Process-Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) in the language classroom – German language … Continue reading
Drink the cool-aid? Thoughts on IBL and PBL
I have just finished reading the first part of Topic 3 for ETL401 on the TL and the Curriculum – Constructivist learning in the curriculum. I am conflicted by this topic of Inquiry learning (IL) and Problem-based learning (PBL) from the perspective of a regular teacher, not a TL, and I’ll admit right off the … Continue reading
A TL's Learning Journal 