Exploring with the AASL Standards
Teaching elementary students how to assess and understand resources can be a tough challenge. These students have spent their lives relying on the adults around them to tell them what is right and wrong.
As they grow as learners it is important that they learn to decipher the information they read and decide if it is a reliable source.
Laura Rodier, the school librarian, at Brushy Creek Elementary teaches students throughout the grade levels how to engage with resources. These are taught through a variety of library lessons and collaborations with classroom teachers.
One way she implements the AASL Engage Standards is with a final project for 5th graders. This final project is a Digital Citizen Boot Camp. This boot camp takes the students through 7 lessons that review or introduce important information literacy skills. Throughout this boot camp this librarian is able to “champion and model safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Librarian VI.D.3.). As we move forward in this information age, it is important to prepare students to safely use technology.
Mrs. Rodier begins this unit with a Google Form pretest of yes or no questions. These questions address situations online such as should you share your password, click on ads, or respond to emails from people you do not know.
The unit continues with the following lessons and standards:
1. Safe usernames and passwords - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
2. Real vs. Fake News - Standard addressed: “Evaluating information for accuracy, validity, social and cultural context, and appropriateness for need,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.A.3.)
3. Phishing and Scamming - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
4. Copyright and citing sources - Standard addressed: “Reflecting on the process of ethical generation of knowledge,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.2.)
5. Personally Identifying Information - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
6. Digital Footprints - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
Mrs. Rodier collaborates with teachers on lessons throughout the school year to help students engage with the resources available in the library and online. She helps them learn how to use and share information for their personal and academic growth. This often includes sharing tips at faculty meetings.
She recently held a short professional development to show teachers how to use safeyoutube.net. This site allows teachers to take Youtube links and create a new link for students that will not have the ads, end credits of other videos, or the suggested videos on the side of the screen. It allows teachers to safely share videos they want to use or share with lessons.
Teaching students how to engage properly with the resources they find has its challenges. Oftentimes, teachers and students find great new resources that they want to try out. However, our school district has a strict data-sharing agreement policy (DSA) and sites cannot be used unless they are approved. It takes time to teach everyone to check that list before clicking that “sign on with Google” button.
As we move forward in this digital (and distance learning) age, it is important that librarians prepare their communities to “demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world,” (AASL 2018, Key Commitment VI.).
References:
American Association of School Librarians. (2018). National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries. Chicago: ALA.
*** Laura Rodier was elected the 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year at Brushy Creek Elementary School.
2. Real vs. Fake News - Standard addressed: “Evaluating information for accuracy, validity, social and cultural context, and appropriateness for need,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.A.3.)
3. Phishing and Scamming - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
4. Copyright and citing sources - Standard addressed: “Reflecting on the process of ethical generation of knowledge,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.2.)
5. Personally Identifying Information - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
6. Digital Footprints - Standard addressed: “Inspiring others to engage in safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors,” (AASL 2018, Learner VI.D.1.)
Mrs. Rodier collaborates with teachers on lessons throughout the school year to help students engage with the resources available in the library and online. She helps them learn how to use and share information for their personal and academic growth. This often includes sharing tips at faculty meetings.
She recently held a short professional development to show teachers how to use safeyoutube.net. This site allows teachers to take Youtube links and create a new link for students that will not have the ads, end credits of other videos, or the suggested videos on the side of the screen. It allows teachers to safely share videos they want to use or share with lessons.
Teaching students how to engage properly with the resources they find has its challenges. Oftentimes, teachers and students find great new resources that they want to try out. However, our school district has a strict data-sharing agreement policy (DSA) and sites cannot be used unless they are approved. It takes time to teach everyone to check that list before clicking that “sign on with Google” button.
As we move forward in this digital (and distance learning) age, it is important that librarians prepare their communities to “demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world,” (AASL 2018, Key Commitment VI.).
References:
American Association of School Librarians. (2018). National School Library Standards for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries. Chicago: ALA.
*** Laura Rodier was elected the 2020-2021 Teacher of the Year at Brushy Creek Elementary School.
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