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- 2. 21st Century Information Skills Learning today means more than memorizing facts. It means learning @Your Library to learn for a lifetime. Savvy parents and educators know that the school library media center is key to teaching students not just to read but to practice the skills they need to seek, evaluate and use information throughout their lives. In fact, research shows those students from schools with professionally staffed, fully equipped libraries score higher on achievement tests. In 2007, the American Association of School Librarians introduced Standards for the 21st Century Learner. These standards guide school library programs and the educators who lead them.
- 3. A set of common beliefs guided the development of the standards. Reading is a window to the world. Inquiry provides a framework for learning. Ethical behavior in the use of information must be taught. Technology skills are crucial for future employment needs. Equitable access is a key component for education. The definition of information literacy has become more complex as resources and technologies have changed. The continuing expansion of information demands that all individuals acquire the thinking skills that will enable them to think on their own. Learning has a social context. School libraries are essential to the development of learning skills.
- 4. AASL’s Standards for the 21st Century Learner Learners use skills, resources and tools to: Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society Pursue personal and aesthetic growth
- 5. Each of the four 21st century standards is measured by objectives in four basic areas: Dispositions in Self-Assessment Skills Responsibilities Action Strategies • Key abilities • Ongoing beliefs • Common • Reflections on needed for and attitudes that behaviors used by one’s own understanding, guide thinking independent learning to learning, thinking and intellectual learners in determine that and mastering behavior that can researching, skills, subjects be measured investigating and dispositions, and • Key question: through actions problem solving. responsibilities Does the student taken • Key question: Is are effective. have the right • Key question: Is the student • Key question: Can proficiencies to the student aware that the the student explore a topic or disposed to foundational recognize subject further? higher-level traits for 21st- personal thinking and century learning strengths and actively engaged require self- weaknesses over in critical thinking accountability time and become to gain and share that extends a stronger, more knowledge? beyond skills and independent dispositions? learner?
- 6. Sample objectives for : Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge 1.2 Dispositions in 1.1 Skills action Find, evaluate and Demonstrate select appropriate creativity by using resources to answer multiple resources questions. and formats. 1.4 1.3 Responsibilities Self-Assessment Contribute to the Monitor gathered exchange of ideas information and within the learning assess for gaps or community. weaknesses.
- 7. Sample objectives for : Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge 2.2 Dispositions in 2.1 Skills action Use technology and Demonstrate other information personal productivity tools to analyze and by completing organize information. products to express learning. 2.4 Self-Assessment 2.3 Responsibilities Determine how to act Consider diverse and on information global perspectives in (accept, reject or drawing conclusions. modify).
- 8. Sample objectives for : Share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society 3.2 Dispositions in 3.1 Skills action Use writing and Demonstrate speaking skills to teamwork by communicate new working understandings productively with effectively. others. 3.3 Responsibilities 3.4 Self-Assessment Use information and Assess the quality knowledge in the and effectiveness of service of the learning democratic values. product.
- 9. Sample objectives for: Pursue personal and aesthetic growth 4.2 Dispositions in 4.1 Skills action Read, view and Display curiosity by listen for pleasure pursuing interests and personal through multiple growth. resources. 4.3 Responsibilities 4.4 Self-assessment Recognize that Interpret new resources are information based created for a variety on cultural and of purposes. social context.
- 10. The following slides are examples of how four of these objectives might be taught in the Carmel Media Center.
- 11. Find, evaluate and select appropriate resources to answer questions. After drawing a research question from a hat, students will determine which media center resource (internet, encyclopedia, atlas, nonfiction book, etc.) would be the best source for answering their question. After finding the answer, they must evaluate their source for authority, accuracy, relevancy and currency.
- 12. Demonstrate creativity by using multiple resources and formats. Students will prepare a brief PowerPoint presentation about their favorite animal using information from websites, an encyclopedia, computer clip art, and quotes from a fiction book or poem featuring their animal.
- 13. Contribute to the exchange of ideas within the learning community. After reading Crossing Bok Chitto by Tim Tingle and Brothers by Yin, two picture books which explore cross-cultural friendships, children will participate in a group discussion about the challenges and rewards of having a friend of a different race, religion or ethnicity.
- 14. Monitor gathered information and assess for gaps or weaknesses. Near the end of an in-depth social studies research project which will culminate in a paper, students will complete an evaluation checklist. The checklist will help the student determine whether they have the proper number of sources, if they have the information to properly cite their sources, and if the information they have found is current, authoritative, accurate and relevant. Students will meet one-on-one with the school library media specialist to discuss their evaluation before beginning their paper.
- 15. To view the complete list of objectives in AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner, please visit www.ala.org/aasl/standards