I tackled this huge topic in a one hour webinar that I presented on behalf of the ALIA Schools group, and can forrsee a number of blog posts on these topics happening in the coming months. For those who were able to attend the webinar (and for those wh…
5 reasons why EVERY student in the 21st century needs a School Library and a Teacher Librarian.
Happy International School Library Day! School libraries and library staff do so much for their school communities, but to celebrate today, I have put these slides together with a focus on how Teacher Librarians (TLs) and school libraries support stude…
Leading from the Library – Eduwebinar presentation
As many of you will be aware, I have been finding synergy between the leadership research included in the MBA that I am currently involved with and the role of the Teacher Librarian. This has sparked my most recent posts, Teacher Librarian as Leader: L…
Goal statement 2021
In 2021 eduToolkit will focus on decision-making in ambiguous situations and analyse how competence is transferred when participants increase their level of disciplinary discernment. Urban Eriksson defines disciplinary discernment as “noticing something, reflecting on it, and constructing new meaning from a disciplinary perspective” and the learning process involve “what to focus on in a given… Read more »
Leadership in practice
Thank you for joining me for the third and final installment of the Teacher Librarian as Leader blog post series. If you have missed the first two posts, consider jumping back to the start to read all three in order. The first post discusses the role o…
Teacher Librarian as Leader: Theories of Leadership in Action
This is the second of a series of blog posts I am sharing on the concept of Teacher Librarian as Leader. The content has been inspired by my recent work as a Learning Designer, working on the design and development of a new online MBA for the Universit…
Teacher Librarian as Leader: Lessons from the Literature
As you may be aware, my recent experience as a learning designer contributing to the development of a new, fully online MBA being offered through USQ has led me to consider how Teacher Librarians (TLs) might take advantage of leadership literature emer…
Finding your tribe: Think-alikes or think-abouts?
As Brisbane enters its second day of a three day lock down, I have been thinking about how much more we have come to rely upon our online tribe since this time last year. Although here in Queensland we have been fortunate to (so far, touch wood) avoid …
The value of narrative in online learning
We were always moving towards providing more formal learning experiences via online media, but the lockdowns of 2020 gave online learning an almighty push. While blended learning opportunities, where students has the option of attending on-campus lect…
Podcast episodes on GBL
I have participated in two episodes of eDU-podden where i talked about game-based learning and playfulness.
Spillpedagogikk – en bokanmeldelse
A review of Spillpedagogikk: a book about the use of video games in teaching (in Norwegian)
Putting theory into Practice: How Networked Learning Transcends Disciplines
2020 has been quite a year for everyone. I won’t bore you with my personal story of how 2020 has turned my life upside down, because I am sure you have your own! However I will say that I am writing this blog post from a completely different pers…
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ECGBL20 conference
After a year of maternity leave I am back on this blog (but don’t expect any consistency in publishing frequency) and I’ll start with a summary about the ECGBL20 conference.
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Billington Matthew – 26. lokakuuta 2017 8.11.23