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

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Next year we will be fully 1:1 with Chromebooks.  I don't know what your
study hall policies look like, but for us, students can choose to come to
the library for study hall.  We let in only a certain number of students
per period, and the rest will go to the study hall room.  We scan their IDs
for attendance and are expected to follow expectations of the area of the
library in which they choose to work (such as we have designated group
study and quiet areas).  We are also open to students before and after
school and during lunch (but they can't eat in the library).  Because of
this choice of place to work for study hall, we have a fairly consistent
number of students in the library all day long.  I don't know if this would
be something you could try, but it definitely gets our students into the
library maybe more than they normally would!

Amy Phillips

Amy Phillips
Riverside Brookfield High School
Library Media Specialist
aebromberg at gmail.com
phillipsa at rbhs208.net
847-722-6169

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?
>
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