AASL Shared Foundation - VI. Engage
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).
In a rural high school that has experienced frequent teacher turnover, Heather, the school librarian teaches research skills annually to students. She makes a point to do so before the English teacher assigns the first research project of year. (Heather, personal communication, November 15, 2020).
Using a slide show, comic strip, and word clouds created by other people, Heather teaches the students how to evaluate information. The slides at the end of the presentation allow the students to practice their new or improved research detective skills. Heather’s lesson includes AASL Competency VI.B.1:
Showing a variety of strategies to ethically use and reproduce others’ work, and modeling this ethical use (AASL , 2018).
The students would see the following slide at the end of Cathy Nelson’s slide show (Nelson, nd):
Presentation adapted from Cathy Nelson’s Web Evaluation Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/cnelson/web-evaluation-2015135
Ambaum, Gene, and Bill Barnes. "Unshelved." Unshelved by Gene Ambaum and Bill Barnes. Overdue Media LLC, 24 May 2010 & 25 May 2010. 0Web. 18 Mar. 2014.
CARRDSS Web Evaluation adapted from Evaluating Sources [videorecording] 2004 Wynnewood, Pa: Schlessinger Media; Library Video Company [distributor], Series: Information Literacy and Research Series.
Heather was kind enough to share the PowerPoint with me after our conversation.
Common Sense Media is another resource that Heather uses to teach students how and why they should evaluate information. I would like to emulate her by having students come to the library once a week during English or another class for such lessons. Because of so much testing during the second semester last year that she was only able to complete half the lessons.
She mentioned that a few years ago the entire school adopted the Simple Four Research Model which was used throughout the building. Today, the model is not widely used in the school. That is partially due to teacher turnover because new teachers are trying to keep up with the curriculum pacing guides and testing leaves very little time for collaborative lessons.
As a librarian who would like to collaborate more with her fellow teachers, she has had a conversation with her principal regarding the benefits of collaboration over the constraints of testing and pacing guides. One idea that she’s thinking might help increase the number of collaborations, is to build personal relationships with the teachers.
To guard the school from sharks in suits that surf the internet for illegal public viewing or sharing of movies and videos, Heather requested that the principal purchase a movie license for school use. Discussing this matter with her, gave me pause to think about a recent encounter that I had at my school with a teacher who wanted to show a movie as a reward. I explained to the teacher that she needed to submit a video permission form that the principal and myself, the media specialist to approve or disapprove. She was not happy and informed me that she would just show the movie in her classroom and not the media center.
I shared that story with Heather and we both agreed that a lot of teachers in our district probably did not pay full attention to the in-service video training regarding copyright laws. Requesting that the school have a movie license is an example of AASL Competency VI.D.3:
Championing and modeling safe, responsible, ethical, and legal information behaviors(AASL , 2018).
American Association of School Librarians (2018). National school library standards for learners, school librarians, and school libraries. Chicago: American Library Association.
American Association of School Librarians (2018), AASL standards framework for learners: Include. Chicago: ALA https://standards.aasl.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/SharedFoundations_Engage_2017.pdf
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