ALAs New Standards for 21 st Century Learners

ALA’s New Standards for 21 st Century Learners: Where we are and where we go from here PNW BOCES Leadership Forum 2008 Amalia Connolly, Janet Duffy, Renée Menzie and Susan Polos

Common Beliefs • Reading is a window to the world. • Inquiry provides a framework for learning. • Ethical behavior in the use of information must be taught. • Technology skills are crucial for future employment needs. • Equitable access is a key component for education.

Common Beliefs. . . continued • The definition of information literacy has become more complex as resources and technologies have changed. • The continuing expansion of information demands that all individuals acquire thinking skills that will enable them to learn on their own. • Learning has a social context. • School libraries are essential to the development of learning skills.

Which one guides you and your program?

Which one guides your principal?

Which one guides your school board?

The 4 Learning Standards Learners use skills, resources, & tools to: 1 Inquire, think critically 3 Share knowledge and gain knowledge. 2 Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply knowledge to new situations, and create new knowledge. participate ethically and productively as members of our democratic society. 4 Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

The Framework Standards Strands Indicators Benchmarks

Strands Four Parts of Each Standard: • Skills • Dispositions in Action • Responsibilities • Self-Assessment Strategies

Remarkable Revolutionaries Using Standard 2 as a model… Read the unit description in your handout. Consider which skills, dispositions and responsibilities apply to the project and add them to the Standard 2 worksheet.

Skills Dispositions Responsibilities Self. Assessments Assessing Skills Assessing Dispositions Responsibilities Assessing Self. Assessments

STANDARD 2: DRAW CONCLUSIONS, MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS, APPLY KNOWLEDGE TO NEW SITUATIONS, AND CREATE NEW KNOWLEDGE STRAND 2. 1: SKILLS INDICATOR 2. 1. 2: Organize knowledge so that it is useful. GRADE LEVEL BENCHMARKS Grade 12+ Organize information independently, deciding the structure based on the relationships among ideas and general patterns discovered. Grade 10 Use different organizational patterns as appropriate for point of view and conclusions (cause and effect, hierarchy, chronology, compare/contrast). Experiment with devising own organizational structure. Grade 8 Combine and categorize information by using an outline or semantic web to find connections among ideas. Use common organizational patterns to organize information (chronological order, cause and effect, compare/contrast) in order to draw conclusions. Grade 5 Organize notes and ideas to form responses to questions. Organize the information in a way that is appropriate for the assignment or question. Use common organizational patterns to make sense of information (chronological order, main idea with supporting ideas). Grade 2 Demonstrate simple organizational skills such as sorting and categorizing. Organize information into different forms (charts, drawings).

Links http: //www. aasl. org AASL Standards for 21 st Century Learner document: Click on Standards for the 21 st Century Learner Benchmark Skills – Standards 1 -4: Click on Standards for the 21 st Century Learner Then Standards in Action

Thank you! Amalia Connolly Janet Duffy Renée Menzie Susan Polos aconnolly@yorktown. org jduffy@klschools. org rmenzie@yorktown. org spolos 0882@bcsdny. org