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L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
CASL Annual Conference
November 8, 2010
AASL L4L Coordinators
Connecticut:
Mary Ellen Minichiello, Library Media Coordinator, Milford Public
Schools, [email protected]
Katrina Palazzolo, Library Media Specialist, Sage Park Middle School,
Windsor, [email protected]
New England:
Irene Kwidzinski, Library Media Specialist, CASL Professional
Development Team and CASL Ning, LM Student-Teacher Supervisor,
Southern Connecticut State University, [email protected]
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
A Survey
We are going to do a quick mobile survey using
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Text a Keyword to 22333.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
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2010 CASL conference
A Survey
What grade level do you teach?
200109 Elementary
200110 Middle/Junior High
200116 High School
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2010 CASL conference
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What is your schedule?
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200318 Flexible
200319 Fixed/Flex
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Have you attended a session on the new AASL
Standards & Guidelines prior to today?
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200388 No
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2010 CASL conference
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What standards do you use to guide you?
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ISTE Nets
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
AASL
Connecticut Frameworks
Local curriculum
Other
All of the above
L4L: Empowering Learners in
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2010 CASL conference
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Are you integrating the AASL Standards &
Guidelines into your district curricula?
200416 Yes
200417 No
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
A Survey
Which of these ALA publications do you own?
200365 Standards for the 21st-Century Learner
200366 Standards for the 21st-Century Learner IN ACTION
200367 Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library
Media Programs
200424 All of the above
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2010 CASL conference
A Survey
How do you see your role?
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Leader
Instructional Partner
Information Specialist
Teacher
Program Administrator
All of the above
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
AASL Standards and
Guidelines
What was the mission in
Information Power c1988 vs The
Standards for the 21st-Century
Learner c2007?
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
The Mission:
Revolution or Evolution?
Information Power 1988 vs Standards for 21stCentury Learner 2007
The mission of the library
media program is to ensure
that students and staff are
effective users of ideas and
information. By …
The mission of the school library media
program is to ensure that students and
staff are effective users of ideas and
information. The school library media
specialist (SLMS) empowers students to
be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers,
skillful researchers, and ethical users of
information by:
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
The Focus:
The Learner!
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Standards!
Excerpted from Standards for the 21st-Century Learner by the American Association of School Librarians, a division of the American Library
Association, copyright ｩ 2007 American Library Association. Used with permission.
1. Inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
2. Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply
knowledge to new situations, and create new
knowledge.
3. Share knowledge and participate ethically and
productively as members of our democratic society.
4. Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
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Learning4Life:
The 4 Strands!
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Graphic designed by Louis Henry
Mitchell for Standards for the
21st-Century Learner in Action by
the American Association of
School Librarians, a division of
the American Library Association,
copyright ｩ 2009 American
Library Association. Used with
permission.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Strands!
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Skills - “Proficiency, facility, or dexterity that
is acquired or developed through training or
experience. Synonym, ability.”
Free Online Dictionary
Graphic designed by Louis Henry
Mitchell for Standards for the
21st-Century Learner in Action by
the American Association of
School Librarians, a division of
the American Library Association,
copyright ｩ 2009 American
Library Association. Used with
permission.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Strands!
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Dispositions are “Ongoing beliefs and
attitudes that guide thinking and
intellectual behavior. Often referred to as
habits of mind or tendencies to respond
to situations in a certain way.”
Standards for the 21st-Century Learner IN ACTION
Graphic designed by Louis Henry
Mitchell for Standards for the
21st-Century Learner in Action by
the American Association of
School Librarians, a division of
the American Library Association,
copyright ｩ 2009 American
Library Association. Used with
permission.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Strands!
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Responsibilities - “Common behaviors used by
independent learners in researching,
investigating, and problem solving.”
Standards for the 21st-Century Learner IN ACTION
Graphic designed by Louis Henry
Mitchell for Standards for the
21st-Century Learner in Action by
the American Association of
School Librarians, a division of
the American Library Association,
copyright ｩ 2009 American
Library Association. Used with
permission.
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Strands!
QuickTime™ and a
decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Graphic designed by Louis Henry
Mitchell for Standards for the
21st-Century Learner in Action by
the American Association of
School Librarians, a division of
the American Library Association,
copyright ｩ 2009 American
Library Association. Used with
permission.
Self-assessment - “Assessment technique in
which learners develop internal standards,
compare their performance, behaviors, or
thought to those standards, and then use
their observations to improve learning….
requires students to engage in reflection of
their own learning and to focus not just on the
task or the product, but also on the process.
Standards for the 21st-Century Learner IN ACTION
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Learning4Life:
The 4 Step Lesson Plan!
1. Direct instruction of the specific skill to be learned
2. Modeling and guided practice: learners have an
opportunity to see the skill as it is applied
successfully
3. Independent practice: learners apply the skill to their
own topics
4. Sharing and reflection: learners look at their own
application of the skill and determine how well it
worked
Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action, p. 18
L4L: Empowering Learners in
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2010 CASL conference
Empowering Learners
Collaborating with 21st Century Library Media Specialists
Think, Create, Share, Grow
Collaborative Partnerships
Library media specialists have always
collaborated with teachers and other
members of the school community.
The difference now is the emphasis
on expanding the collaboration to
include students, parents, public
libraries, the outside community,and
other groups that would enhance the
projects that the students are
creating.
What do these images tell us about working and learning in the 21st century?
(courtesy of Dr. Carol Gordon)
Learning Environment
Do they want to be there?
School libraries are essential to the development of learning
skills.
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Have we lost our ability to concentrate?
Are we more social or more isolated as a result of our
constantly interconnected lives?
How is the Internet affecting our brains?
And what about our students?
WHOM ARE WE TEACHING?
What is the information behavior of today’s teens?
Preference for natural rather than
controlled language;
Tendency to use simple search strategies;
Unsophisticated mental map of the Internet;
They do not review information retrieved
from online databases for relevance; did
unnecessary searches when they had alreadyRowlands, I. & Nicholas, D. (2008).
obtained the information
Information behaviour of the research of the future. A
required;
CIBER Briefing Paper.
Commissioned by British Library & Joint Information
Systems Committee. Centre for Information Behaviour
Very little evidence that the Google
& the Evaluation of
generation is fundamentally different;
Research (CIBER), University College of
London (UCL), 11 January, Retrieved 2
Little improvement in information literacy February 2008,
capabilities, evaluating & authority of sources.
http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf
The 21st century learner: How is the s/he different?
• Younger than the microcomputer;
• More comfortable working on a
keyboard than writing in a notebook;
• 89% of college students start their
search with a search engine;
(2% start from a library site)
• 93% are satisfied/very satisfied with the results;
• Library users demand 24/7 access, instant gratification at a
click, and are looking for THE answer.
Rowlands, I. & Nicholas, D. (2008). Information behaviour of the research of the future. A CIBER Briefing Paper.
Commissioned by British Library & Joint Information Systems Committee. Centre for Information Behaviour &
the Evaluation of Research (CIBER), University College of London (UCL), 11 January, Retrieved 2 February
2008, http://www.bl.uk/news/pdf/googlegen.pdf
Whom are we teaching?
But…
• More than half of American teens online have produced
media content
• About one-third have circulated media that they have
produced beyond their immediate friends and family.
• Online youth are content providers
Are they information literate?
Pre-21st Century, literacy
was the ability to read
and write.
What does literacy mean in
the 21st Century ?
“We are living in a new economy-powered
by technology, fueled by information,
and driven by
knowledge. The influence of
technology will go beyond
new equipment and faster
communications, as work and
skills will be redefined and
reorganized.”
U.S. Department of Labor. (1999). Futurework. Trends
and challenges
for Work in the 21st Century
What does literacy mean in the 21st century?
Visual
Digital
Textual
Technological
The ability to
“understand
and use
images,
including the
ability to think,
learn, and
express
oneself in
terms of
images.”
The ability to
understand,
evaluate, create,
and integrate
information in
multiple digital
formats via the
computer and
Internet.
The ability to
read, write,
analyze, and
evaluate textual
works of
literature and
personal and
professional
documents.
The ability to
responsibly use
appropriate technology
to communicate, solve
problems, and access,
manage, integrate,
evaluate, and create
information to improve
learning in all subject
areas and to acquire
lifelong knowledge and
skills in the 21 century.
(Gilster 1997)
(Braden and Hortin
1982,41)
(SETDA n.d.)
Multiple literacies
Source:
Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action. AASL, pp. 18-19.
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Role in 20th Century:
Recreational Reading
Library collection centered
Reading motivation
Broadening reading interests
Sustained Silent Reading…
Free Voluntary Reading (FVR)
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Role in 21st Century:
Reading for Understanding
Digital reading environments
Unmediated reading materials
Reading in the content areas
Strategic Reading
Critical thinking skills
• Core subjects;
• 21st century themes;
• Learning and innovation
skills;
• Information, media, and
technology skills;
• Life and career skills.
21st Century Skills
What do learners need to know and be able to do?
20th Century learning outcome
Walt Whitman (Camden)
Considered by many to be the
most influential poets in U.S.
history
Inquiry provides a framework for learning
21ST CENTURY MENTORING
A student who has not been interested in doing this
project conferences with the librarian.
The librarian finds out that the students likes jazz and
suggests Ella Fitzgerald as a topic.
The student listens to Ella Fitzgerald’s music on
Bearshare.
The student decides to write a poem rather than a
report about Ella Fitzgerald.
Inquiry provides a framework for learning
Lonely, Nervous, Brave, Determined, Sassy
Daughter of parents who filled their house with music
Music must have filled her loneliness when her father died
Moved to New York for a better life.
Who loved the night magic of Harlem,
Who loved the celebrities and begging for autographs with her friends
Who really loved singing and scatting
Who loved her Aunt that took care of her as a child.
Who felt loss, when her mother died
Who felt anger when she was put in an orphanage
Who felt trapped in those walls but they couldn’t keep her down
because she felt the pull of her song
and the night magic of Harlem.
Who felt nervous and fear at auditions
Who feared not being able to sing because she had no one to care for her
Who feared dying from diabetes and possibly going blind,
Who feared whom she would pass her singing crown down to
Who wanted to see someone take over her singing crown
Who would have liked to have spent more time with her late parents
Who wanted to work with the best bands
Who changed the world of jazz and swing
Who was very proud of her awards and achievements
She was “The First Lady Of Song”;
she was “Sassy” and a Legend of Jazz
Born in Virginia, grew up in New York,
adopted by the world.
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Ella was great
Fitzgerald
Ella
21 Century Learning Outcome
Resources
I wish to thank Dr. Carol Gordon of
Rutgers University for allowing me to use
portions of her presentation at the AASL
Conference in Charlotte in November, 2009.
Thank you, Foran High Students, for letting
me use pictures of you.
Empowering Learners:
A Planning Guide!
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Introduction
• Online, interactive planning
and advocacy tool
• Supports implementation of
the AASL program
guidelines
• Ensures school library
program planners go
beyond the basics
• Saves time and delivers data
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Planning Process
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evaluate the existing program
involve stakeholders in planning process
align the mission with the school or district
develop action plans with measurable goals and
objectives
• chart implementation progress
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 CASL conference
Planning Process
Planning Process
Planning Process
Assessment Rubric
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Reflects principles in AASL program guidelines
Assess programs on 16 different sets of criteria
Identify strengths and weaknesses
Easily share results with stakeholders
Advocate for the information literacy needs of
school community
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Assessment Rubric
Assessment Rubric
Benefits Recap
• Access module online from any computer
• Sequential steps are intuitive for users of all
technology levels
• Save and edit plans
• Monitor progress charts
• Evaluate your program health using the rubric
• Output and share worksheets, charts and graphs
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2010 Fairfield workshop
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2010 Fairfield workshop
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YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
A Lifelong Process!
What's the take-away?
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
A Lifelong Evolution!
Do we need to change
everything that we
do?
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
Resources!
L4L home page and new Building Level Toolkit
L4L resources compiled by 2010 Emerging Leaders Group A
Knowledge Quest: Developing a Vision: An L4L Job Description and Enhancing
Your Professional Practice; and Sowing the Seeds fo the New AASL Standards
for the 21st-Century Learner
Sample Evaluation System
AASL Standards Interactive Graphic
Effective Practice wiki
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
Resources!
Webinars: School Library Month 2010 (no log in information needed)
Developing a Vision for Learning presented by Dr. Carol Gordon
Teaching for Learning - Teaching at the Intersection of Reading, Information and
Technology presented by LaDawna Harrington
Building the Learning Envorionment: Engage, Interact, Immerse, Learn
presented by Marcia Mardis, Eileen McIlvain, Gail Long, and Jennifer Pleszkoch
Empowering Learning through Leadership: Building a Strong Leadership
Foundation through Transformation Leadership Practices presented by
Daniella Smith
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
Resources!
School Library Monthly: The End of an Era…Falling Off a Cliff by Allison
Zmuda
L4L School Librarian Job Description
AASL, P21 & ISTE Nets Skills Comparison Chart by Cassandra Barnett
CT 2009 Common Core of Leading
CASL website and ning
NESLA Implementing the Standards wiki
L4L: Empowering Learners in
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2010 Fairfield workshop
Learning4Life:
Resources!
Common Core Standards
Illinois Standards Aligned Instruction for Libraries
Connecticut Information Technology Frameworks c2006
CT Common Core State Standards Initiative c2010
L4L: Empowering Learners in
YOUR School Library
2010 Fairfield workshop