Students appear to have natural abilities to use emerging technology. But the reality is, while students easily grasp the entertainment and communication value of the devices they use, they need to be taught how these tools can be used in learning and critical thought. This is a task for the Learning Commons.
There is growing consensus among educators that students need to learn
transferable skills in order to work efficiently and successfully in our future world.
To achieve this, students will need to become critical consumers of information, effective problem solvers, capable decision makers and
innovative communicators as well. They will require the skills and ability to
flow with change. And most of all, students will need to understand that
these transferable skills give them the capacity to make a difference in this
world... personally.
A Learning Commons provides boundless opportunity for growth. It is
based on a cross-curricular perspective that recognizes literacy, numeracy,
knowledge, thinking, communication, and application as foundations for
learning how to learn.
A Learning Commons becomes the physical and virtual catalyst where
inquiry, imagination, discovery, and creativity come alive and become
central to growth — personal, academic, social and cultural.
An effective Learning Commons will accommodate all learners and address multiple learning styles and learning levels.
In working together, teacher-librarians in partnership with others can modify the process, content, product and environment to meet the needs of a diverse student population. The result will be empowered learners. The learning commons model creates an ideal environment for the teacher librarian to utilize teaching methods that allow for both formal and informal learning to take place.
A learning commons allows for academic libraries to provide wider-ranging and more cohesive services to students and users. Meshing numerous services maintains the traditional reference and research elements of the classic library while adding exciting new services that support new technologies and service in a larger and more integrated environment. The learning commons reflects a marked shift in our conception of the library, a shift that is driven by our evolving understanding of the library's role in supporting student learning. The emergence of the learning commons as a central element in contemporary library design offers an opportunity to transform the library's role on campus from a provider of information to a facilitator of learning.
Often, libraries and learning commons share responsibility for delivering college-wide outcomes: developing effective research strategies, finding and evaluating the appropriateness of resource materials for a particular topic, honing effective oral and written communication skills, and promoting good study and learning habits. The goal of a Learning Commons Librarians' work should be to encourage all students to engage in substantive ways with multiple services in the organization. Properly implemented in an academic library, this model of library service benefits all parts of the institution. A cohesiveness and purpose among the diverse elements of the library allow both the library and the school to run more smoothly and efficiently and students' needs are met in an environment that is designed to provide multiple services in a single location.
New or renovated library space is now commonly repurposed to bring students together to work, study, and socialize. The learning commons typically offer comfortable furniture for both individual and group study, modular furnishings that allow users to customize the environment to suit their needs, access to wireless networks and electrical outlets, multimedia labs and support, and often a cafe accompanied by relaxed food and drink restrictions. The Learning Commons seeks to expand and integrate the real and virtual choices learners have to share their experiences. Safe, inclusive and welcoming environments throughout a school are imperative to meet the diverse abilities and learning styles of individuals, teams and groups. Virtual learning spaces increase this potential.
Through the process of inquiry, individuals construct much of their understanding of the natural and human-designed worlds. Inquiry implies a "need or want to know" premise. Inquiry is not so much seeking the right answer—because often there is none—but rather seeking appropriate resolutions to questions and issues. For educators, inquiry implies emphasis on the development of inquiry skills and the nurturing of inquiring attitudes or habits of mind that will enable individuals to continue the quest for knowledge throughout life.
The challenge is discovering how to reconfigure our current spaces both inside and beyond a school and a school library's walls to reflect this new reality. Access to the technology that makes it possible, obviously, is critical.
The school library, a key component of a Learning Commons, has an
integral and transformative role to play in implementing this fresh and
innovative vision for education.
Every member of a school's population will ultimately participate in the
creation of a Learning Commons, but the concept's early coordination and
leadership will rest with school library expertise.
Where properly developed, a school's library is already the hub for
networking and information access. As the Learning Commons' concept grows, a school library's collection-based facilities will continuously change and expand, creating access-based services suited to a school community's needs.
This process will mean changes in the operations of a school's library. Resource collections will need to be reshaped even more rapidly and readily than they are currently to reflect their communities as well as the world at large. It is the only way a library's access to the global, interconnected and
interactive communication networks of the future.
Developed by Dr. Alexander Jones, the LCTM sets clear goals with specific criteria of importance to measure the correlation with teaching outcomes and use of space and technology. The LCTM model includes Knowledge Building, Collaborative Engagement, Integrative Learning, Fostering Literacy, Creativity and Expression, the Development of Positive Social Maturation, Efficient use of Space and Enhanced Teaching.
Educational commons are a concept related to the learning commons, focusing on the shared governance, open access, and collaborative creation of educational resources. Defined as the process of learning, the transmission, and acquisition of knowledge, and the methods of governing this process are collectively managed and co-constructed by the entire educational community. While educational commons focus on the process and resources themselves such as textbooks, curricula, and digital learning materials, the learning commons focuses on the physical or virtual spaces where collaboration and resource-sharing occur, ensuring that they are freely available and co-managed by communities.
The concept of educational commons complements the goals of learning commons by emphasizing the importance of collaboration not just in how resources are used, but in how they are created and governed. Both frameworks followed the principles of the commons in the educational and knowledge sector that aimed for foster inclusivity, equity, and community engagement, however, commons focuses more broadly on the systemic level of resource accessibility and management.
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