LSC520Week 5 Warm-up Librarians at Technology Leaders by Mary Moen

Librarian Collaboration

2025-05-30 15:34:23 UTC

We can collaborate with resource teachers. For instance, I am constantly working with the technology resource teacher. Whether it be on digital literacy, learning management systems, robotics, and more. The most obvious collaboration should be classroom teachers. Ideally media specialist should work with the teachers to help augment their lesson using the library media center.

A. Testa

angelatesta — 2025-06-02 11:37:08 UTC

The first thing that came to mind from reading through the infographic was that school librarians could and possibly should collaborate with the IT department, so that they can be better technology leaders. I know from working some in the library at the high school I substitute teach in, that the IT department works closely with the library to help with the students' laptops. The school librarian could foster this relationship to collaborate on things such as creating videos, knowing better how to problem solve on personal devices, and things like that. The school librarian could also partner with the tech ed teacher, if there is one. I took a tech ed class in middle school and know there is one teacher at the high school I work at. This could helpful for things such as coding, video editing, social media, and web design. There are most likely other people within the school that the librarian could collaborate with to be technology leaders but these were the more prominent two that I could think of.

Sydney Conley

2025-06-02 13:56:43 UTC

In high school, my anthropology teacher scheduled a session with our librarian to teach us how to use iMovie to complete a class project. The librarian held a one hour class on iMovie and then helped us for a few weeks after that in the computer lab while we worked on our projects. That specific day in that class was when I fell in love with editing and I have been doing it ever since (although I've leveled up from iMovie). I make this point because without this collaboration between teacher and librarian, I may never have been introduced to this software that has become such a large part of my life. This is one thing that excites me about moving up to the high school level someday - getting to do activities like this with students and hopefully inspiring someone else.

Cailey Williams

caileywilliams1 — 2025-06-02 15:41:27 UTC

Librarians are a point of contact when patrons/students/faculty have questions or concerns. Therefore, it could be beneficial for librarians to collaborate with IT staff or technology instructors to learn how to best support questions or comments regarding technology in schools. The librarian could also create informational resources (LibGuides, infographics, etc.) that are easily accessible by students and faculty to support technological use in educational spaces. Finally, librarians can work alongside educators outside of IT to develop better instructional materials regarding online and digital literacy, based on the specific needs of students and faculty in different departments.

lindsey hopkins

2025-06-03 00:29:56 UTC

Some of the most obvious people that the librarian could connect with as a technology leader are ELA instructors, computer science teachers, specials teachers (art, music, P.E., FLESS, tech. ed.), test proctors, the IT department, and public library librarians and staff. These are collaborations better suited for secondary schools since most students in middle and high school typically have multiple classes and teachers. At the elementary level, I think it is important that the librarian collaborates with all teachers or at least all grade levels to support Lexia and other online learning. They could also offere the library as a space for standardized testing.

One way that librarians could collaborate with others as technology leaders is by providing lessons on using technology, search engines, and databases. They could also provide the space and access to computers and tablets if there are none in the classrooms. They can also touch base with the local public library to provide equal access to computers, printers, and wifi. Librarians would be great leaders to help with the school and district websites, as well as making or managing social media posts or content. A lot of tech-related library activities, like maker activities and use of makerspaces, could be collaborative. These spaces could be "shared" with other assignments, specials, or electives.

Mary Allbee

2025-06-03 00:42:46 UTC

A way that librarians could collaborate with teachers as a technology leader is by introducing a new type of technology to use in a project they are working on. For example, my elementary CE is collaborating with the 1st grade classroom on their citizenship project. The teacher taught them about what it means to be a citizen, and about laws/rules. Then, the students wrote out a law for their classroom, and drew a picture. Once they were done with that, my CE came in and taught them how to use Book Creator to make a classroom book about their laws. This was a great way to have the librarian and classroom teachers collaborate, and the kids loved being able to use the iPads and create something on there.

Sophie VanSickle

2025-06-03 18:02:28 UTC

The first thing that comes to mind regarding librarians as technology leaders is the opportunities to collaborate with ELA/STEM/Science teachers in creating lessons on digital wellness and ethical & effective use of AI. As much as I personally dislike AI, AI is a big presence in the world right now, so collaborating with teachers (who likely are also struggling with how students are using AI) to provide students with guidelines on how to use AI ethically and responsibly, would be beneficial for everyone.

Fabiola Gutierrez

2025-06-03 20:52:36 UTC

I see opportunities for the school librarian and the computer science teacher to collaborate on lessons on video editing and coding. Also, librarians can use online platforms to share information and resources. I have recently started to build my teacher's page on Clever, that way all students can access it on a school computer.

Katherine Erickson - Librarians as Technology Leaders

2025-06-04 14:23:47 UTC

School librarians can and should collaborate with the school's Director of IT to make sure they understand all of the important software and hardware that they will be promoting and teaching to students and teachers. Once the librarians have a good grasp of the needs of faculty and the students based on curriculum goals and outcomes, the librarians will know what programs will be the most valuable to the school community.

Abby Halnon

2025-06-05 17:17:24 UTC

There are a variety of ways that librarians can collaborate within their school community through their role as a technology leader. One opportunity would be to collaborate with teachers on lessons that include new or unfamiliar technologies for teachers. This allows the librarian to provide information on new technologies to teachers through collaborating on lesson plans. The school librarian could also teach a class on a technology skill and invite teachers to observe. This would allow teachers to see the new tool explained and used during instruction and wouldn't require the planning time that a co-taught lesson may require.

Trinity Potter

2025-06-05 21:28:26 UTC

When I think about librarians collaborating with other people I often think teachers. Helping different teachers with research paper work, presentations, and learning new ways to identify information. I think a collaboration could happen specifically with professors from universities or different administrative persons' to help get high school students familiar with the kind of technology they will be experiencing when coming to college. Recently, I was introduced to a very cool piece of technology called Novel Effect. This app with play audio out loud containing background noise of a book while you are reading it out loud to students. It listens to your voice to know where you are at in the book and that triggers different audios. I think that this is wonderful and could be a really cool and fun way of interaction including making out loud reading more immersive.

Jess Bourgault

2025-06-06 00:37:33 UTC

Technology can feel like it is overtaking our lives, it can get overwhelming very quickly. It's important to collaborate with a technology leader because you don't want to be "burning the candle at both ends". Technology is great, but I think it's important to step back and refocus and integrate all approaches to learning. Technology is overused in general, as a school community, we need to be the leaders of how to safely and effectively incorporate technology into our curriculum. Not all students are effective learners by staring at a screen during every class period. From what I've seen most are not which increases behaviors drastically. School librarians could collaborate with technology integration specialists and attend professional development opportunities that offers insight into effective, age-appropriate technology integration.

Jacquelyn O'Reilly

2025-06-06 00:40:53 UTC

It seems to me that librarians could collaborate with and be an asset to all members of an educational community. They could collaborate with administration when creating marketing materials for events or developing after school educational programming for students at the elementary level. One of the most valuable ways that librarians could serve as technology leaders would be to work with teachers to instruct them on maximizing the technological assets available to them in preparation of their lesson collaboration. It would be important that teachers are informed on how the systems work as well as the librarians and students so that should an issue or question arise during class time when students are working on something they initially learned about in the library, the teacher has the understanding to help assist them.

Molly Miranda

2025-06-09 14:51:49 UTC

Librarians can collaborate directly with students as a technology leader. They could do this by having mini tech makers spaces. These could be open during a homeroom or advisory period, or even offered as a class. ideas from the infographic that could fit into this are 3D printing, animation, web design and electronic lego sets. These could be in collaboration with art teachers as well. Through PD, librarians are collaborators with all teachers and administrators who participate. Even telling teachers where to find technology courses is being a technology leader.