[CALIBK12] ``The Information Age``/Standards for free

[Maier, Kathie]

I have never understood why any education standards should be purchased (electronically).  It is like saying you have now been hired for a job and your first pay check will be used towards obtaining your job description.  If we have standards (a clear definition of desired outcomes ) we should freely share this information.  How can we expect educators to support and students to learn our information literacy standards if we hide what we want students to learn?
(Educational standards define the knowledge and skills students should possess at critical points in their educational career. "Standards serve as a basis of educational reform across the nation as educators and policy makers respond to the call for a clear definition of desired outcomes of schooling and a way to measure student success in terms of these outcomes" (National Research Council 2001).  National, state and local educators play an important role in improving student learning through development and implementation of standards throughout the country. http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/edstandards.htm)

Kathie Maier, LMT certified
Trident Campus Library - Rm48
1800 W. Ball Road Anaheim, CA 92804
     714-999-3738  x148

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim."  - Linton Weeks



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Sent: Sun 9/23/2007 11:54 PM
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Subject: Re: [CALIBK12] ``The Information Age``/Standards for free



In a message dated 9/23/07 6:22:08 PM, kjwbooks at comcast.net writes:



Unfortunately, our standards can't be posted with the others, because they are on the CDE website, which must mean that they have been adopted by the State Department in an official way. Ours are still essentially a product of our organization.  Nevertheless, they could be available on our website, couldn't they?





     "Our standards" could be posted anytime we choose to post them because they are ours. The CDE did us a favor by helping us sell the copies we had.  Thank you, Barbara.  Whether we should now give them away for free is a decision for the Association to make, and an ideal question for the Membership Forum at CSLA in Ontario. Other ideas might include posting them to our website for members' use, behind a password, just as the Membership Directory is there now.

Richard K. Moore, InfoSherpa
Huntington Beach, CA
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