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=Welcome To The Eclection Wiki=

This is an environment for educators, particularly teacher-librarians, to collaborate on all facets of the school library program - information fluency, technology, instructional partnering, literacy, and management.

In the current educational climate, there is a very clear mandate for a shift from putting an emphasis on finding and accessing to knowledge building ([|Todd)]. Engaged in renewal and continuous improvement, teacher-librarians are searching for ways to guide students more meaningfully in their inquiry and reading to build deep knowledge and understanding.

This wiki attempts to present an **eclectic** collection of education artifacts within an enabling participatory culture in which to:
 * 1) Explore and illustrate examples of emerging technologies and literacy practices that impact the role of the teacher-librarian
 * 2) Enhance and enrich knowledge sharing and capability development through professional development
 * 3) Enable learners to construct sense and new knowledge using a repetoire of social media
 * 4) Implement, through a constructivist, inquiry-based framework, educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement ([|ISTE NETS Project])
 * 5) Collect irrefutable data of the impact of the school library program upon student achievement ([|Evidence-Based Practice])
 * 6) Understand the concept of participatory culture and its impact on learning, teaching, and school libraries ([|Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century])
 * 7) Demonstrate effective school library programme leadership, collaboration, and management throughout the school, the division, and in local, provincial, and national activities and associations.

Eclection is maintained by Carlene Walter