3.7 Technology & design of learning spaces in the library by https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps Module 3: LE2 en-us 2018-09-02 10:45:04 UTC 2025-12-01 14:48:18 UTC hello@padlet.com Learning Environments in the PYP rola_hallak1 https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277139671 - Learning environments support pedagogy and respect the agency of learners.
- Learning environments are made up of multiple learning spaces, which will be co-designed and co-constructed
with students.
- The learning community consider the connections between pedagogy and design, and how spaces are best
used by members of the learning community to meet the stated goals.
- In the PYP, learning environment should be flexible, inviting , and intentional so that they support agency, inquiry, and physical and emotional well-being.  
- Technology implementation and integration should always be authentic and purposeful. When technology is used purposefully, it can transform learning and teaching. It is a tool to support and extend learning. It can be used to monitor, document, measure and report on
learning
- Technology offers many wonderful opportunities to connect and collaborate with classrooms and students all around the world.
- Students learn technology, about technology and through technology. 
]]> 2018-09-02 11:28:20 UTC https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277139671 Connection to Teacher Capabilities rola_hallak1 https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277140148 1. Approach to teaching: 
Based on inquiry
Capability: Teachers will be able to critically engage with professional literature and experiences to reflect on and
refine learning and teaching

2. Approach to Teaching: Developed in local and global contexts
Capability: Teachers will be able to design inquiries using local and global contexts by: 
- designing curriculum that reflects the heritages, languages and cultures of students and other members of the learning community
- supporting students to initiate and engage in their own inquiries (Open-door policy for the library in addition to ATL in action supported by teachers) 

3. Approach to Teaching: Focused on effective teamwork and collaboration
Teacher Capability: Teachers will be able to build and maintain collaborative relationships by: 
- Using networks including social media to appropriately build and develop relationships that support one another 
- Providing opportunities for students to collaborate. 

4. Approach to Teaching:  Designed to remove barriers to learning

Teacher Capacity: Teachers will be able to foster supportive
environments that
remove barriers to
learning by: 

- Selecting teaching approaches, resources, technologies, learning and assessment activities that are inclusive and effective for diverse students
- Supporting student innovation and creativity through a cycle of inquiry, action, and reflection
- Providing and maintaining an environment within which students feel safe (physically,
culturally, socially, emotionally) to be responsible for their own learning
- Making thoughtful use of resources—time, people, places, spaces and physical
materials—to develop flexible and diverse approaches to learning and teaching
- Use technology to extend when, where and how learning takes place.]]> 2018-09-02 11:37:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277140148 Examples from TSM rola_hallak1 https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277141971 1. One teacher used GSuite’s Docs or Slides, which are tools for students to document their learning and work collaboratively. Sharing the Docs globally via Twitter, Google+ and Facebook and asking schools to create a summary of their location, along with some
collaborative artwork that represented “where they were in place and time”, classes from Australia, USA, New Zealand, Germany, China, Russia and Canada came together
to share their culture through text and images.
2. Video Conferencing using skype would enhance shared learning and peer mentoring. 
3. In another class, the use of Class Notebook enhanced the design process and encouraged some original and innovative thinking as students were able to document their research, theories and findings in one place, allowing for easier synthesis of their ideas.
4. With the learning goals in mind, a group of teachers combined digital and non-digital tools to support and extend learning about angles. Students designed mazes using different materials, and in order to navigate these mazes, they used  Spheros—these devices need to be coded with angles, direction and speed, making them the perfect tool for
applying and extending knowledge and understanding of angles and measurements.
5. 5P Board Game: Since
student agency is supported through making informed decisions and ethical choices,
the “5 Ps for a positive digital footprint” game allows learners to grow as responsible digital citizens. It is important to refer to its key learning outcomes regularly during the year.
6. Coding: Some teachers use Bee-Bots in their early learning centre as digital tools that young learners can manipulate through symbols and sounds to programme instruction steps. ]]> 2018-09-02 12:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277141971 Tech-Libraries Learning Spaces rola_hallak1 https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277159870 "The design of learning spaces in the library plays a key role in supporting student agency and
learning through play by being responsive to student interests and grounded in what they value. Within this
thriving learning community, technology – which can include books, furniture, digital devices, projectors, games,
pencils, paper, costumes and lighting – creates opportunities to extend student thinking and challenge their
abilities." 

A defining theme of the library experience is “variation”—not in the technology, but in its uses - to create opportunities for discovery. 

Guiding Question: 
What kind of changes could you make to your library to promote choice, autonomy, ownership,
collaboration, a sense of community and shared meaning making?]]> 2018-09-02 16:54:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rola_hallak1/p175jqounmps/wish/277159870