1.  Learning Landscapes Seminar The Knowledge Building Center: A Foundational Element of the Virtual Learning Commons David V. Loertscher Professor, San Jose State University Reader.david@gmail.com

2. School Libraries and Computer Labs: Transform into a Learning Commons The Learning Commons Physical Space Experimental Learning’ Center Virtual Space Open Commons

3. The Major Switch No Website School Library Web Site Virtual Learning Commons

4.  A giant conversation  A collaborative workspace  A place of experimentation  Knowledge Building Centers as its foundational elements

5. KBC Characteristic: Easy to Build and Use  Google Sites; Moodle; Wiki; Blog; Google Aps Education

6. KBC Characteristic: Collaborative Inquiry  Everyone working, building, contributing, developing, solving…  Classroom teachers, students, teacher librarians, teacher technologists, other specialists, experts, parents

7. KBC Characteristic: Personal Expertise and Collaborative Intelligence What We Know What I Know

8. KBC Characteristic: 21 st Century Skills Drive Content Understanding Content Deep Understanding 21 st Century Skills

9. KBC Characteristic: Specialists at the Center of Teaching and Learning Classroom Teacher and Students Teacher Librarian Teacher Technologists Experts Other Specialists Parents

10. KBC Uses  Single-class explorations  Cross-class inquiry  Cross-district, community, state, world inquiry  School projects/initiatives  Professional development  Professional learning communities

11. Kamiliah Jackson’s VLC Documented Evidence Loertscher and Koechlin 200911

12. The Parade of KBCs Loertscher and Koechlin 200912

13. Marzano’s iObservation Model Marzano, Robert, Peggy Schooling, Michael Toth/ Creating an Aligned System to Develop Great Teachers Within the Federal Race to The Top Initiative Solution Tree, 2010 (Based on Marzano’s The Art and Science of Teaching )

14. Sound Instructional Design  UBD (Wiggins and McTighe)  Think Models (Loertscher/Koechlin/Zwaan)  The best technologies that boost learning  Co-Teaching by classroom teachers, teacher technologists, teacher librarians, and other specialists.

15. End with: The Big Think  Why?  What it is.  Activity 1: What I know; What we know about content  Activity 2: How I learned this; How we learned this  Conclusion: So what? What’s Next?  Activity 3 (with adults) What they learned; How they learned it. So what? What’s next?  Help: Nin strategies for Big Think Activities from: Loertscher/Koechlin/Zwaan. The Big Think (LMCsource.com)  Important: Have administrators participate!

16. Who is Assessing? Student’s View Classroom Teacher’s View Administrator’s View Parent’s View Specialist’s View

17. What’s Ahead? Make Connections  State / Provincial / National Documents and Initiatives:  Ontario and Alberta documents  Common Core Standards: U.S. National Governor’s Conference  State initiatives such as Ohio’s Learning Commons

18. More Connections:  Tune to great ideas through great professional books:  Will Richardson’s 3 rd ed. of Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms. Corwin Press, 2010  Bernie Trilling and Charles Fadel’s 21 st century Skills: Learning for Life in our Times. Josey Bass, 2009  Robert Marzano, ed. On Excellence in Teaching. Solution Tree, 2009.  Alan November’s Empowering Students with Technology. Corwin, 2009

19. Even More Connections  Create your own personal learning network  Joyce Valenza’s blog and ning  David Warlick’s blog  The Blue Skunk blog by Doug Johnson  ISTE Sig Webinars  Free Technology for Teachers – Richard Byrne  Schoollearningcommons.pbworks.com