A wonderful perspective of the Learning Commons. It is so true and so obvious that learning occurs anytime, with anyone and anywhere. (Richardson, 2013) Thank you, Chris for another inspirational post.
Students at West Bay Elementary School
I walk into almost all of our schools in West Vancouver and very often the first thing people want to show me or talk to me about is the changes happening around the library. Or more specifically, schools are taking great pride in their learning commons spaces that are developing. While the physical spaces are exciting, the changes to our mindsets are far more powerful. We are not destined for new schools in West Vancouver anytime soon but the rethink of the library has been both a symbolic and concrete shift in how we think about space and how we think about learning. The school library – a centre piece in schools – is now the modern hub for learning.
I like the library metaphor from Joan Frye Williams (shared in this blog from Joyce Valenza):
Our libraries should transition to places to do stuff, not simply…
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