Learning to "Explore" with AASL and ISTE SLIS761 Module 2

       

   
       In School Librarians Level Up! Authors Jennifer L. Freedman and Alice Robinson reveal a wealth of lessons using only one AASL standard, Shared Foundation V: Explore, to a group of public and parochial school librarians. The authors were part of a group that volunteered to analyze the AASL Shared Foundations and agreed to come up with ways that school librarians could implement the standards.

       The librarians included the four domains, Think, Create, Share, and Grow in their school library lessons and/or maker stations. Not only did the lessons or activities include AASL standards, but most overlapped with at least one or two ITSE standards that corresponded with the Explore Learner competencies.  For example, during Teen Tech Week students were taught the Engineering Design Process (EDP) and competed in teams to design and build the highest structure as part of the Marshmallow Challenge. That challenge falls under Shared Foundation 1: Explore, Doman B: Create competency in which the School Librarian facilitates, and the Learner develops products that illustrate learning. The challenge also falls under ISTE Standard 6c. where the educator serves as facilitator to create learning opportunities that challenge students to use a design process and computational thinking to innovate and solve problems overlapped the AASL standard.

       When comparing the competencies of the Shared Foundations framework to the ISTE competencies, there is a lot of overlap with three standards, Inquire, Collaborate, and Engage. Include, Curate, and Explore didn’t not share or overlap as much with the ISTE standards in each competency. The teaching and learning examples provided in this article demonstrate how school librarians can easily incorporate both sets of standards that will allow all learners to Think, Create, Share, and Grown through collaboration, critical thinking, and global communication.

Works Cited:

Freedman, J., & Robinson, A.A. (2019). School librarians level up! Transform your teaching by unpacking the AASL Standards Framework and Implementing Shared Foundation V: Explore, Knowledge Quest, 47(5):11-15. Retrieved from https://blackboard.sc.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/content/file?cmd=view&content_id=_13303131_1&course_id=_1071652_1

National school library standards crosswalk with ISTE standards for students and educators

https://standards.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/180828-aasl-standards-crosswalk-iste.pdf