Mostly Harmless

A reflective journal of a student teacher librarian

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ETL402 – Part B: Reflective Bog Post

Embarking on the Literature Across the Curriculum course has been an eye-opening journey, reshaping my understanding of literature beyond its traditional confines. Through my study, literature has emerged as powerful, multidisciplinary tool that has the potential to make a profound impact on young readers.

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Feeling (GID)dy

I’ve had a brief look ahead into the modules for ETL401 and am looking forward to the near future as I can see that we will be starting to learn about Guided Inquiry. I’m actually quite lucky, as I’ve been told that my school will be implementing a policy that will see every faculty delivering one Guided Inquiry Design (GID) unit for a stage 4 class at some point during the year. That means that, fortuitously, what I’m learning in my modules will be running directly parallel to what I will be working on professionally. Better get a head start!

 

I should also mention that I’ve been lucky enough to attend some professional learning in guided inquiry, specifically Guided Inquiry Design, in the form of a half-day workshop delivered by Leslie Maniotes – she literally (co)wrote the foundational books on Guided Inquiry (Kuhlthau, Maniotes, Caspari, 2015; 2012) and is lead author of the Guided Inquiry design in Action books (Maniotes, 2017). With this in mind I thought I’d share a few of the notes/insights I received on the day.

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For Whom The Bell Tolls – The Death of Libraries? I Don’t Think So!

I recently was looking for something light to read regarding libraries and library services. Something related to my course, Introduction to Teacher Librarianship, but that wasn’t a heavy-handed journal article. I wanted something engaging and approachable, something that may introduce me to a new idea or concept or that would still make me think but without having to enter “study mode”. I stumbled across an article by the MIT (prestigious!) Technology Review, titled “The Death of Libraries?” that grabbed my attention.

 

Immediately I checked the publication date, hoping that this wasn’t a recent article. The death of libraries, oh no! Am I entering a “dying profession”? I’ve heard this term being thrown out there once or twice before.

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