Librarian Marie

We live in a society that has instant access to information twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If we want to find information about something, we simply have to open our smartphone and search a few key words. Some of us might even be able to ask Alexa our question without even lifting a finger! This instant access to information is mainly due to our constant exposure to technology and media. However, if we do not have the tools to analyze this information, it can quickly result in an information overload. Due to this continuous rise in exposure to information, technology, and media, it is no wonder that a major component of 21st Century Learning is information, technology, and media literacies. The P21 Framework Definitions reading was the most helpful to me when understanding these concepts and how they intersect. Information literacy incorporates the ability to access information, evaluate the information critically, and the ability to use and manage information from ...

     The first thought many educators have when thinking about standards is confusion. Standards can be confusing, wordy, and often difficult to dissect. As a teacher, many of our planning periods are spent sitting in a room with other educators and administrators analyzing and discussing standards. However, when it comes to standards for the school library, who is there to help make sense of everything?      Often school librarians work alone in their building. They do not have weekly meetings with their team to analyze standards like many grade levels. Courtney Lewis (2019) discusses this confusion and her solution of utilizing librarian reading groups in order for librarians to better understand the standards. I absolutely love this idea she discusses in her article Collaborating to Communicate: Librarian Reading Groups and Understanding the Standards . Lewis discusses how the group of librarians progressed through the standards bit by bit and ...