Standards for the 21st Century Learner

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Standards for the 21st Century Learner

• Thriving in the Information Age
• Sherry Crow, University of Nebraska at Kearney
• Su Eckhardt, UCD Network Professor CASL
  PresidentNance Nassar, School Library Senior
  Consultant, Colorado State Library

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Session Agenda

• Examination of the standards
• Analysis of the impact
• Implications

Sherry Crow crowsr_at_unk.edu Su Eckhardt
sueckhardt_at_earthlink.net Nance Nassar
nassar_n_at_cde.state.co.us
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Learner Standards

• 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.

• Strands across the standards
• Skills
• Dispositions in Action
• Responsibilities
• Self-Assessment Strategies

American Association of School Librarians,
Standards for the 21st Century Learner,
www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstanda
rds/standards.cfm
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Reviewing in Pairs

• Consider the standards, then the strands.
• What does each standard/strand mean?
• What is the significance of each standard/strand,
  and of the four of them collectively?
• What would it look like if you saw these
  learners at work?
• Why are the standards/strands important?

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Collective Debriefing

• Compare and contrast How are the Learner
  Standards different, similar, or like the
  previous 9 IL Standards?
• What implications do these standards have for
  our work?
• What questions/concernsdo you have?

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Adapting a Lesson Days of Our Lives
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Focus on assessment and activities
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Applying Lesson to the New Standards
Adapt activities and assessmentas appropriate
for Learner Standards
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Guides for Adapting the Lesson

• How would you address each standard and strand?
• How would you assess student learning?
• What changes should be madein the learning
  activities?
• What additional lessons need to be added to
  pursue the standards?

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Analyzing the Lesson Adaptation

• What does this adaptation suggest about teaching
  and learning with the learner standards?
• How might the learner standards affect our work
  with colleagues?

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Resources

• BIBLIOGRAPHYStandards for the 21st Century
  Learner
• Achterman, Douglas. An Interpretation of the
  2007 AASL Learning Standard. Teacher Librarian
  April 2008 48.
• Barnett, Cassandra. Creating Standards and
  Frameworks for Information Literacy. School
  Library Media Activities Monthly Volume 24,
  Number 7, March 2008 21-23.
• Coatney, Sharon. Standards for the 21st Century
  Learner. School Library Media Activities Monthly
  Volume 24, Number 6, February 2008 56-57.
• Dickinson, Gail K. A Place to Stand. Library
  Media Connection March 200810-12.
• Donham, Jean. Standards! Standards! Standards!
  Teacher Librarian April 2008 43-46.
• Johns, Sara Kelly. AASL Standards for the 21st
  Century Learner A Time to Reflect and Study.
  California School Library Association Journal
  Volume 31, Number 2, Spring 2008.

Sherry Crow crowsr_at_unk.edu Su Eckhardt
sueckhardt_at_earthlink.net Nance Nassar
nassar_n_at_cde.state.co.us
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History of National School Library Standards

• 1918Standard Library Organization and Equipment
  for Secondary Schools of Different Sizes (a.k.a.
  the Certain Standards NEA).
• 1925Elementary School Library Standards
  (includes instructional standards as well as
  quantitative joint committee for NEA and ALA).
• 1945School Libraries for Today and Tomorrow
  (K-12 qual. quan. standards ALA and NEA).
• 1960Standards for School Library Programs (first
  standards from AASL).
• 1969Standards for School Media Programs (joint
  project of AASL and the AV division of NEA.

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History of National School Library Standards,
Part II

• 1975Media Programs District and School (still
  highly quantitative but some discussion of role
  of LMS AASL and AECT).
• 1988Information Power Guidelines for School
  Library Media Programs (LMS as instructional
  team member AASL and AECT).
• 1998Information Power Building Partnerships for
  Learning (AASL AECT includes Information
  Literacy Standards, the first for students the
  LMS as school leader).
• 2007Standards for the 21st Century Learner
  (AASL adds digital, visual, textual, and
  technological literacies to information literacy).