Your Library Is the Answer: Demonstrating Relevance to Tech-Savvy Learners

Today's tech-savvy and digitally connected students present a new challenge for today's school librarians. This book offers the 21st-century tools and know-how necessary for educators to appeal to and challenge students to learn—and to want to learn.

• Includes innovative, practical lesson plans designed to promote problem solving skills, flexible thinking, and metacognition as well as an extensive bibliography of additional resources

• Addresses how to analyze quantitative and qualitative data to perform the assessment necessary to improve learning outcomes

• Provides essential information and guidance for K–12 librarians, technology integration teachers, and educators as well as school administrators

• Addresses key aspects of learning such as critical thinking, inquiry, learning spaces, blended learning, engagement, motivation, and Common Core State Standards (CCSS)