A highly qualified school librarian will need thorough knowledge of AASL and ISTE standards in order to design learning experiences that marry digital literacy with information literacy. Is it possible? What does that look like? An article in the May/June 2019 issue of Knowledge Quest explores a practical way that one school librarian implements a personalized learning “menu” to facilitate student inquiry and choice, proving that “[p]roviding learners with a menu of options encourages students to make choices and help drive their own learning.” Librarian Mary Lou O’Connor showcases her approach in “Now Serving…an Appealing Menu of Digital Literacy Tools and Resources” (Knowledge Quest, 2019), describing how her students are presented with options for research, collaboration, and creation for the project at hand.
Let’s take a closer examination of the AASL (2017) and ISTE (2017) standards at work here in this showcase. O’Connor states, “The AASL Standards Framework for School Librarians provided the template. Menu items are categorized under the four Domains: Think, Create, Share, and Grow.” (2019) The anecdotes of different projects that frame the menus give intentional focus on the 6 foundational goals: inquiry, inclusion, curation, collaboration, curation, exploration, and engagement. So where do the ISTE standards fit in? Across and within all of those goals and domains! As the ISTE standards (2017) call for, students in living out their learning journey as “empowered learners”, “digital citizens”, “knowledge constructors”, “innovative designers”, and “creative communicators”, most significantly. Their personalized research tool choices, paired with their use of digital creation and sharing tools, yields true synergy of AASL and ISTE’s standards.
Let’s take a closer examination of the AASL (2017) and ISTE (2017) standards at work here in this showcase. O’Connor states, “The AASL Standards Framework for School Librarians provided the template. Menu items are categorized under the four Domains: Think, Create, Share, and Grow.” (2019) The anecdotes of different projects that frame the menus give intentional focus on the 6 foundational goals: inquiry, inclusion, curation, collaboration, curation, exploration, and engagement. So where do the ISTE standards fit in? Across and within all of those goals and domains! As the ISTE standards (2017) call for, students in living out their learning journey as “empowered learners”, “digital citizens”, “knowledge constructors”, “innovative designers”, and “creative communicators”, most significantly. Their personalized research tool choices, paired with their use of digital creation and sharing tools, yields true synergy of AASL and ISTE’s standards.
References:
American Association of School Librarians. (2018). AASL standards framework for learners.
International Society for Technology in Education. (2017). ISTE standards for students.
O’Connor. (2019). Now serving: An appealing menu of digital literacy tools & resources. Knowledge
International Society for Technology in Education. (2017). ISTE standards for students.
O’Connor. (2019). Now serving: An appealing menu of digital literacy tools & resources. Knowledge
Quest, 47(5), 16–21.
I also loved the menu idea! It helped me a lot to see the different ideas they had for each of the shared foundations. I thought it helped me grasp the foundation better with seeing how students could use particular tools to meet those standards based on their own choice.
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