AASL Conference: New Learning Standards Unveiled!
AASL has just unveiled its new learning standards, which will replace the AASL Information Literacy standards for students.
They are now called Standards for the 21st-Century Learner.
The main standards are the following:
- Learners use skills, resources, and tools to inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
- Learners use skills, resources, and tools to draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.
- Learners use skills, resources, and tools to share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
- Learners use skills, resources, and tools to pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
You can view the new standards (in PDF format) here.
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- What in the new standards resonates with you?
- Which standards might be easiest to implement in your school?
- What are the challenges you foresee in these standards?
- How do you plan to correlate the standards to your state or school standards or curricula?
- How will you use these new standards to advocate for your 21st century school library media center?
- What correlations do you see between the new standards and the tools and culture of Library 2.0?
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November 14th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
This blog, “AASL Conference: New Learning Standards Unveiled!” makes some really good points that definitely should be central to education, “2. Learners use skills, resources, and tools to draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, . . ..”. I find this statement particularly compelling because so often it feels like people do not use methodical processes in decision making in our complicated world. So much decision making seems based on emotions, and emotions that may have been swayed by politicians, commercial advertising, and trends that float away with the wind. Much of education over the years seems to have been focused on basic topics such as arithmetic, reading, and history. Certainly these are important topics and should be kept in the curriculum. Knowing about George Washington is helpful but it may be even more helpful to know how to sort out today’s world. When buying a car, the buyer needs to think about more than the comfortable ride and sound quality of the radio mentioned in the magazine advertisement. The car buyer would benefit from learning about the fuel consumption, reliability, repair costs, visibility through windows, color visibility of the vehicle to others, and crash safety tests.