Schools face change Schools face issues daily as they work to change and meet the needs of students. Some problems are systemic and some are unique to each campus. School leaders do have a powerful but sometimes overlooked ally in dealing with these issues–their teacher-librarian. At SXSWEdu, Joyce Valenza, Miguel Figueroa and I examined some ways that libraries/librarians can hack these problems for their schools in our session Hacking Education through Libraries. Issues like equity, access, technology adoption, information overload, and digital literacies, and trends facing schools […]
Tag: Future of libraries
Library Summmit Day Two — closing in on a vision?
Gathering this morning to hear DaVinci Institute’s Thomas Frey and excited to be sitting at a table with some icons in the field and Maureen Sullivan, former President of ALA this morning. Questions in the innovation area this morning: –Give a new library story that would capture the library of the future? –How will library of future assess itself? –In the future, what will our constituents NEED that they don’t even know they need now? –As a result of the summit, what are you inspired […]