NVSD44 Libraries

Miss Clark’s English classes love the library and the library loves them in return!
What I’ve loved most about working with this teacher and these hundreds of students over the past few weeks is the messy way in which we all learn together and blur the line that too often divides the teacher and the students. Whether we are deciphering the logistics of inviting collaborators to our blogs or finding the best online voice for listening to a reading of Oliver Twist on Librivox, we are partnered in the exploration and discovery of the ideas that will shape the future. We are a community of individuals who meet in person and online to capitalize on our diversity and engage in the social activity of learning. We are reading, researching, dialoging, creating and sharing ideas and resources based on the literature of our choosing, be it classic or contemporary…and it’s magic. Other than the library, in what learning environment would the same set of instructions, handed to all the students, result in the knitting of a visual essay response to Fruit by Brian Francis, a soundscape of classical music that rises and falls with the emotions of Anna Karenina, a powerpoint project on American gun laws inspired by Walter Dean Myers’ Fallen Angels, or self portraits of the readers of Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, as captured with a MAC iSight camera? I love the Carson Graham Library!