How can I support ADST in my library?
Most importantly, I want to foster an environment of trust, so that all stakeholders feel safe to take risks. With trust can come play, and with play comes creativity (Tim Brown, TED).
Next up, I want to encourage stakeholders to play by giving them the tools to do so. From makerspaces to tech hubs to role-playing, lego, and board games/video games. I want the LLC (and the VLLC) to be a space where people know they are free to ideate, prototype, test, fail, try again.
Lastly, I want inquiry to be woven into every aspect of the library. From a Wonder Wall, where big and little questions are frequently refreshed, to actively and explicitly building research skills. The library should be a space where searching for knowledge is supported in every way.
Is there anything missing from this MindMap?
If you could incorporate one new thing into your LLC or VLLC tomorrow to help promote ADST, what would it be?
References:
Brown, Tim. 2008. Tales of creativity and play. Serious Play 2008. https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_tales_of_creativity_and_play
Hi Katrina,
This is Navneet…Can I say that I absolutely adore the mind map you have created! There is so many aspects that I didn’t even think about incorporating in mine. The one that stood out to me was definitely the Inquiry branch that you have and the Wonder Wall that supports research skills! I didn’t realize that research skills fell under ADST as well, I was so focused on building/prototypes in my own library; so, thank you for including it in yours as I will now remember it for the future.
The one thing that I would implement for sure would be Makerspace or Keva Planks, as I keep hearing more and more about of them I am getting a lot more excited to be able to get my hands on them to get them and the materials into my library! Thanks for sharing your mind map!
Sorry, I forgot to post my question in the previous comment and wasn’t able to edit (forgot this wasn’t on OnQ)… I was wondering how you would incorporate all these different things that you have mentioned in your LLC space?
Depending on the school, I have seen LLC’s that are large enough to get lost in to small enough that having 30 students in the room can be chaotic. Are you looking at stations that can be moveable and accessible, so student’s can drag out the ones they want to use (Makerspace materials, role play materials, etc.)
Hey, this is a great question, and my mind map was 100% idealistic, since I don’t have my own space yet. I love the idea of modular stations that can be rolled in/out depending on use. I also read in one of the articles that the LLC doesn’t have to include all of these, they just have to facilitate the use. So, perhaps the Resource Room holds some of these materials, and perhaps there is a computer lab for others, and perhaps the sensory room includes some of these tools. Either the LLC includes it all, or it creates the bridge between those spaces, where I could send a small group out to work and bring back their prototype/creation for dialogue.
Oh, thank you for your recommendation to look into Keva Planks! I have definitely used them, but hadn’t realized what they were. Yes!
Hi Katrina, it’s Carrie Ann here.
Great mind map! Lots to think about… and I really like seeing how your ideas branch out from central goals.
If I could add one ‘dream element’ to my LLC, it would be — as you have listed — a podcast and video studio, with private space for students to play with/learn the tech and the techniques and to create their own media pieces about things that interest them. As a TL, hosting a media ‘club’ or ‘channel’ for the students would be a dream role of mine.
One thing I might add to your mindmap is, perhaps, an open-ness or ‘invitation’ for teachers and students who are already doing these kinds of explorations and creative projects to see the LLC (virtual and physical) as ‘their own’ and you (the TL) as ready partner and support to uplift, host, pitch in to the great things already happening in the school via your time/expertise and/or the space of the LLC.
A final note — your comment that the LLC should support this in its virtual form as well is a great takeaway for me! Thanks!