Blog 1: Collaborating, Remixing, and Respecting Diverse Perspectives with AASL & ITSE Standards

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 literacies” that continue to de-emphasize print media to incorporate digital technologies and digital media (Spiering, 2019). Throughout the article, Spiering (2019) gives various examples of how the AASL standards connect to the realities of how the “new literacy” looks for adolescents. However, I want to focus on the “Challenging Perspectives through Digital Remixing and Creation” section of the reading where the article explicitly uses the AASL Foundations of Collaborate and Include.

Screenshot of AASL Lib Guide that includes AASL Toolkits & Position Statements

Resource for more exploration: LibGuide: AASL Toolkits & Position Statements: https://schoollibrarynj.libguides.com/Librarians/toolkits

Comparison/Contrast of ITSE & AASL Standards

The article describes how students can remix texts like Romeo & Juliet, use multimodal responses that include texts, images, or videos, or create new text to share in online communities (Spiering 2019). “Multimodal response provides learners with an opportunity to engage with diverse perspectives, share new perspectives, and participate in a community of learners” (Spiering, 2019, p. 48). This connects to the AASL Standard of Collaborate because learners are using “a variety of communication tools and resources to articulate their thoughts,” (AASL, 2018) and they connect to the AASL Standard of Include because they allow students a chance to challenge the text and converse with others about their varying perspectives of other learners.

The ITSE standard that closely correlates with this is Creative Communicator 1.6b, which states, “Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.” Communication is embedded within the AASL Collaborate standard, but the ITSE Creative Communicator standard emphasizes the creativity involved in how students communicate, specifically how they are reinventing new ways to use digital tools. The word remix is even used in this ITSE standard. Remixing is a form of synthesis in which learners combine various components to create something new. The AASL Include Standard also connects to the ITSE Global Collaborator Standard 1.7a of “Students use digital tools to connect with learners from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, engaging with them in ways that broaden mutual understanding and learning.” It seems as if the AASL Standard that should connect would be Collaborate, but because the AASL Include Standard mentions respectfully including different perspectives, it is a better fit.

Conclusion

By using this article, I can see how these standards complement one another and, in some cases, add meaning or provide illuminating details. I look at these set of standards as companions; they are awesome as individuals, but when we look at them together, it adds more nuance and detail.

 

References

Spiering, J. (2019). “Engaging adolescent literacies with the standards.” Knowledge Quest, 47(5),

Comments

  1. Tori EverestJune 25, 2023 at 7:37 PM

    Jennifer, I also noted the difference in the way the ISTE standards addressed different groups of people from students to coaches to administration. I think that this is a great tool and makes the ISTE standards even more interesting and applicable. I agree that overall the standards compliment each other very well and offer a way to explicitly highlight and teach essential skills to students.

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