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:

1. Learners use skills, resources, and tools to inquire, think critically, and gain knowledge.
2. Learners use skills, resources, and tools to draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge.
3. Learners use skills, resources, and tools to share knowledge and participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society.
4. Learners use skills, resources, and tools to pursue personal and aesthetic growth.
    

You can view the new standards (in PDF format) here.

Join the Conversation

1. What in the new standards resonates with you?
2. Which standards might be easiest to implement in your school?
3. What are the challenges you foresee in these standards?
4. How do you plan to correlate the standards to your state or school standards or curricula?
5. How will you use these new standards to advocate for your 21st century school library media center?
6. What correlations do you see between the new standards and the tools and culture of Library 2.0?

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