Instructional Design: Exemplar J2

Standard: Cultivating Effective Instructional Design to Co-plan, Teach and Assess Learning.

Theme: STEAM /Maker Pedagogies

Growth Phase: Evolving

Growth Indicator: Teacher-librarians/LLC teachers use provocations along with a makerspace to provide hands-on or experiential projects.


Moving from a physical library space to a fully virtual program for the 2020-2021 pandemic school year, Ontario teacher-librarian Lyons explores the pedagogy and philosophy that anchors the curation of the virtual library learning commons to provide maker prompts, embed literacy-based inquiry and culturally responsive practices in school wide make prompts and provocations shared through embedded videos based on a virtual presentation by the author at the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario (ECOO) Bring It Together conference in February, 2021.https://ecoo.org/bring-it-together/

Lyons, B.  (2021, May 12).  Virtual Maker Learning in the Library Learning Commons. Canadian School Libraries Journal 5 (2).  Retrieved from https://journal.canadianschoollibraries.ca/virtual-maker-learning-in-the-llc/