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Connected Learning and Implications for Libraries as Spaces and Mentors for Learning

“Connected learning is realized when a young person is able to pursue a personal interest or passion with the support of friends and caring adults, and is in turn able to link thislearningandinterestto academic achievement, career success, or civic engagement.”

from Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design

For the last month or so, I’ve been dwelling in Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design, a research synthesis report that outlines the research and findings of the C...

Nurturing Lifelong Learning with Personal Learning Networks, Ohio eTech Conference 2013

A sincere thank you to everyone who made me feel so welcome at the Ohio eTech Conference last evening and today as well as the conference organizers for their hospitality! I’d also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to my friends at InfoOhio for their support and lovely company last evening. Finally, a special thank you to all who took time to attend my session today–it was wonderful to have the chance to chat with several of you, and your kind words truly humble me.

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Connecting People, Connecting Communities: Community Participatory Mapping Workshop Learning Reflections

I have only been at the Cleveland Public Library for three days, and I am delighted to have already been immersed in new learning experiences that are expanding my thinking! My colleague Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz, who is the Knowledge Manager here in our Knowledge Office at CPL, and I attended two wonderfully original and thought-provoking learning events earlier this week.

On Monday afternoon, we attended an introductorypresentation to community participatory mapping with Dr. WansooIm, a well-r...

Goodnight and Godspeed, Unquiet Library

As many of you know, I’ve had a silly but beloved habit of saying, “Goodnight, library” every afternoon when I leave. Today, I said farewell to my students, fellow teachers, and the library that has been like my child for the last time. May others always love you as I and our students have; may you always be a place of inspiration, enchantment, learning, and joy—thank you for giving me the time of my life. I will carry you all with me in my heart as I begin the next chapter with the amazing C...