Jennifer Boykin's School Library Blog

    Vid eo thumbnail shows headshot of Buffy Hamilton, a White woman with shoulder length brown hair and red scarf around her neck. She is standing in front of a dry erase board and above that is a screen that shows a slide from a presentation.  ~   ~  ~ Because we cannot see the effects of our information diet (The Liturgists, 2017), we do not know when we are over-consuming what I’m calling “junk information.”    My information diet is social media, news from sources like NPR, and primarily print media of books of poetry and nonfiction. Most of the news I encounter is from social media, either from news organization’s social media post or individuals re-posting news organizations. One aspect of my information diet I’m encountering more is AI generated images that are presented as real, or “born digital images” (Valenza, 2016, Fake news section).    Some people on my social media re-posted an AI image of people at ...

Overview of Standards The Shared Foundations of AASL are Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Create, Explore, and Engage with the Four Domains being Think, Create, Share, and Grow. All these foundations and domains are verbs that describe what learners are doing. These foundations and domains provide standards that provide a framework for Learners, School Librarians, and School Libraries. However, ITSE has standards are organized by roles such as designer, collaborator, planner, etc. Additionally, students, educators, education leaders, and coaches have their own separate standards that include the different roles and the actions entailed with each role.   Although each set of standards are organized differently, they both emphasize the need for collaboration, thinking/knowledge constructor, creating/designing, sharing/communicating, and others.   Adolescent New Literacies Adolescent literacy is shifting from reading and writing as the primary form of literacy to “new liter...