No Shelf-Control

This weeks readings and podcast really made me think about how much the media has changed recently. What I keep thinking about is specifically how much people relied on social media during the beginning of the pandemic. With all the discussion of COVID itself along with the development  of the vaccines, it seemed that everyone was finding and distributing information without checking their sources. I can't tell you how many arguments  I saw in comment sections related to this. This blended with the political climate caused several of my friends and family members to take a break from social media. I did notice because of all the misinformation being passed around that Facebook added a banner to posts that could potentially contain false information.  Within education it is so important that we prepare students for this kind of information. They will encounter false information and "fake news" and they need to know how to see if it is legitimate or not. From that I have se...

"The standards empower school librarians to be leaders that truly transform teaching and learning." Prior to reading about these standards, I had never thought this way. Before my move to the library, I was a classroom teacher and the standards that I used to teach did everything but empower me because of this prior relationship with standards I had to reshape my thinking. The shared foundations in the AASL standards make it so easy to focus instruction for professionals, teachers, and students. The AASL standards include six shared foundations; inquire, include, collaborate, curate, explore, and engage.    Each of these concepts is something that is done nearly every day in the library but can be configured depending on the target audience.   In addition to the shared foundations, the AASL standards also include four domains; think, create, share, and grow. These  are cyclical and match up with specific foundations. As librarians, we can use this to guide the w...