<div dir="ltr">Dear Cynthia,<div> 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.</div><div> Here are my informal observations:</div><div>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</div><div>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.</div><div>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.<br></div><div>I'm not anti-internet, <u>by any means</u>. 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?<br>:) Kathy</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><i style="color:rgb(102,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><b>Kathy Sullivan</b></i><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>Princeville Junior Senior High School</i></b></div><div><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>P.C.U.S.D. #326</i></b><br></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i>302 Cordis Avenue, </i></b></font><b style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:12.8px"><i>Princeville, IL 61559</i></b></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i>309.385-4660 x1574</i></b></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><i><a href="mailto:ksullivan@princeville326.org" target="_blank">ksullivan@princeville326.org</a> </i></font></div><div><font face="garamond, serif"><b><i><br></i></b></font></div><div><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt"><b><i><font color="#660000">"Literature is the safest key to a nation's treasure."</font></i> </b>- Chaim Nachman Bialik</span></div><p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 1:09 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>What are your policies as a 1:1 school? <br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-8197557826630426642gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff0000" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span></span><span></span>Cynthia Hinderliter</font><div><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff0000" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Dept. Chair of Instructional Technology/Information Specialist</font></div><div><font size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff0000" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Pekin Community High School </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif" size="2" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" color="#ff0000"><br></font></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pchsdragons" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B78xP4u7-8K1V3gxRm4xM0FoMEk&revid=0B78xP4u7-8K1RDhJbEpWNWZoa1dqUzVJbzlsUTRWT250b2VjPQ"></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/PCHSDragons" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B78xP4u7-8K1ZmpPRk1TTzZXQkk&revid=0B78xP4u7-8K1YUk5NEN6a05RWjNtOXhKNDIrNndSWEx5K2w4PQ"></a> <a href="http://Instagram.com/pekin_community_high_school" target="_blank"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B78xP4u7-8K1RFE0c2JDWHMxRmc&revid=0B78xP4u7-8K1ZmQ3c25DUlJBOUpVY3NhUFdBaXV3R2t1cmZ3PQ"></a><br></div><div><font color="#ff0000" face="georgia, serif" size="4">#ⓓⓡⓐⓖⓞⓝⓟⓡⓘⓓⓔ</font><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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