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Enhancing Student Learning through Media Center Collaboration

This project, initiated by Renée Crumley as part of a requirement for MEDT 7485 in Summer 2009, aims to enhance collaboration between Language Arts teachers and the media center to boost student understanding and achievement for the 2009-2010 school year. By integrating media and technology skills into lessons aligned with Georgia ELA standards, we aim to increase lesson collaboration, improve student application of learned skills, and meet individual learning needs. Emphasizing digital literacy and resource engagement will ultimately foster lifelong learning habits among students.

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Enhancing Student Learning through Media Center Collaboration

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  1. Bring ’Em Back! Collaborating with the Media Center to Increase Student Understanding and Achievement Created by: Renée Crumley Partial Requirement for MEDT 7485 Summer 2009

  2. Goals for SY 2009 - 2010 • Increase lesson collaboration with Language Arts teachers • Increase delivery of student lessons in media center • Increase student understanding and application of learned skills • Support for School Improvement Plan

  3. Reasons to Collaborate • Better student understanding of Georgia ELA standards • Imbedding media/information technology skills in ELA lessons • Better skills transfer for students across various units • More student needs met

  4. Better Understanding of Georgia ELA Standards • Cross curricula applications • Building meaning in content areas • Online texts and web sites • Multiple genre exposure • Multiple writing style

  5. Imbedding Media/Information Technology Skills in ELA lessons • Teaching digital access skills • Teaching evaluation or screening of web site skills • Teaching how to do Boolean searches • Teaching the difference between an internet search and a database search • Teaching the use of various formats available including web sites, video, pictures, and databases

  6. Better Skills Transfer for Students Across Various Units • Bloom hierarchy for digital literacy: Beginning from the skill level of remembering to the highest skill level of creating from unit to unit and subject to subject ***Andrew Churches, Tech&Learning.com, 22 August 2008 • Application of digital literacy: website creation EX: http://stu.westga.edu/~rcrumle1/7467_finalwebsite_rmc/default.html

  7. Digital Bloom: Remembering • Bullet pointing: listing in the digital age • Social bookmarking: using the teacher’s blog • Searching: Online research “Googling”

  8. Digital Bloom: Understanding • Advanced searches • Boolean searches • Blogging

  9. Digital Bloom: Applying • Loading applications • Operating programs • Sharing • Editing

  10. Digital Bloom: Analyzing • Linking • Integrating • Tagging

  11. Digital Bloom: Evaluating • Posting • Collaborating • Blog Commenting • Networking

  12. Digital Bloom: Creating • Programming • Filming • Podcasting • Wiki-ing • Publishing • Mixing

  13. Benefits of Collaboration • More effective use of resources: The media center has more resources than the individual classroom • More effective use of teaching time: The teacher: student ratio is lowered • Integration of educational technologies: More exposure to new technology and creation of teaching websites that students access from home for follow up instruction • Shared efforts of promoting literacy: Teacher and Media Specialist share reading interests

  14. More Benefits of Collaboration • Fewer discipline problems: Students more engaged and there are two teachers • Easier to meet individual needs: Two teachers work to strengths of each other. Students’ individual learning styles can be met. • Shared work load: Planning, teaching, and assessing together • Developing life-long learning: Fostering the habit of using the library for work and pleasure

  15. Support For School Improvement Plan • Provide extended learning opportunities for students to master content • Collaborate to select strategies to help students who do not meet standards • Provide enrichment opportunities for students who master content quickly

  16. Conclusions • Lets get started with collaboration • Bring your students to the media center for better student understanding

  17. Citations and Readings American Association of School Librarians and Association for Educational Communication and Technology. Information Power: Building Partnerships for Learning. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1998. Churches, Andrew. "Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms Digitally." Tech & Learning. 22 Aug. 2008. 22 June 2009 <techlearning.com/article/8670>. Knobel, Michele, and Dana Wilber. "Let's Talk 2.o." Educational Leadership Mar. 2009: 20-24. McNabb, Mary L. Literacy Learning in Networked Classrooms: Using the Internet with Middle-Level Students. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, 2006. Ryan, Jenny, and Steph Capra. Information Literacy Toolkit: Grade 7 and Up. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2001. Taylor, Joie. Information Literacy and the School Library Media Center. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2006.

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