Cranston PFE: 7d- Continuing Education

As my technology handouts aim to display, I taught and assisted multiple classes throughout my 135 hours at Cranston Library.  Our aim was to bring technology, software, and other devices to our patrons whom attended our class.  Information literacy was the channel for which we did so and these skills are part of the patron, as well as our (the teachers), goal to advance their lifelong learning.  When teaching something like a computer basics course, learning the proper way to click a mouse and just how many times is the start toward the trajectory of connecting to writing software, picture folders, the world wide web, and much more.  

When I was planning for my Spotify class, I was aiming to expand on patrons’ knowledge of the car radio- for those that did not know much about the computer- and relate it to other programs such as Pandora- for those who knew more than the class.  By creating this class out of something I was using in my personal time, I found myself learning how to teach co-workers, my director, and patrons.  These levels varied but the same goal was clear- a love of music.  The reference desk of a library is most know for its information literacy skills and, in a way, I assisted with this in teaching Spotify.