[ISLMA-Share] 1:1 High Schools and Library Use

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Dear Cynthia,
   Our school has been 1:1 for about 4 years now. I don't have any specific
policies, but then - we're a very small district. Our building houses
grades 6-12, and there are about 60ish students in each grade.
    Here are my informal observations:
1. While the chromebooks give kids quick access to great educational things
on the internet, they also provide a great way for kids to play when they
should be working. Kids can go incognito so that it's more difficult for
teachers to see what extra screens are opened. Grrrr
2. My homeroom (half of the sophomore class) isn't a ghost town, but kids
don't seem to read as much. Dedicated readers still borrow as many books as
before, but it's the hit-or-miss kids are more likely to skip reading books
and play games, chat online and verbally, etc.
3. Our district is also implementing the Summit platform that encourages
students to learn from their peers or find the answer online rather than
having the teacher lead. This draws students away from personal reading
even more. The library doesn't seem to be suffering, in the area of
book-borrowing yet, but students are definitely more glued to screens and
seem to have increasingly shorter attention spans.
I'm not anti-internet, *by any means*. It can be a great resource. I'm just
finding that I need to shift the way I function to meet needs, which is all
part of the educational game eh?
:) Kathy


*Kathy Sullivan*
*Princeville Junior Senior High School*
*P.C.U.S.D. #326*
*302 Cordis Avenue, **Princeville, IL  61559*
*309.385-4660  x1574*
*ksullivan at princeville326.org <ksullivan at princeville326.org> *

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On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hello! We are going 1:1 next year and I'm trying to envision how that will
> look for the high school. library or Learning Commons as we call it. We are
> a large high school of about 1800 students.
> Right now, we house most of the Chromebooks. Students receive a pass to
> come in through study hall or their 5th hour advisory classroom. This does
> cause alot of traffic for us. We also allow ten seniors an hour to have an
> all semester "pass." These students come in daily and can work or not work
> on whatever as long as they are quiet.
>
> Next year, we will go 1:1. Unless students are checking out a book, they
> will be able to do any Chromebook homework in study hall or their
> advisories. I am afraid that this place will look like 1) a ghost town 2) a
> place where kids congregate to socialize. I want the LC to be like a
> college library...quiet yet relaxing, a place where you can work and if you
> are finished a place to relax and read.
>
> What are your policies as a 1:1 school?
>
> --
> Cynthia Hinderliter
> Dept. Chair of Instructional Technology/Information Specialist
> Pekin Community High School
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