[CALIBK12] A challenge and Contest for you and your students

[David loertscher]

First, I hope every person in charge of a school library will participate in
the national AASL survey. It will be use by the AASL Research Committee to
tell our story to the nation and to the new president.

The survey may be accessed directly at:
http://www.aaslsurvey.org

Now to the challenge and contest. Since we all need to study the new
national AASL Learning standards, we editors of Teacher Librarian thought it
would be fun to challenge both adults and students to visualize the meaning
of the standards. I am including an attachment that includes sample visuals,
but here is the text of the challgeng.  Deadline: June 15.

Announcing….
The AASL Learning Standards (2007) Professional Development Challenge
and
Model Building Contest

With the issuance of the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner that
can be found at
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslproftools/learningstandards/standards.cfm,
the challenge goes forth to understand the difference between these
standards and those of Information Power.
Admittedly, the new set of standards is more complex and multi-dimensional
than their predecessors. As teacher librarians, we all need to spend time
reading and thinking deeply about the direction suggested for students and
teachers and the changes we need to make to implement the ideas that push
our programs forward.

    Here is our challenge from Teacher Librarian—the Journal for School
Library Professionals: Either as an individual or as a group of
teacher-librarians, spend time studying the new standards. Then as one way
to internalize the main ideas of the document, create a visual
representation of the ideas either as an individual or in a group. Such a
project will in itself, cause comparison, contrast, and help you internalize
the standards. We recommend this be done in teacher librarian meetings,
dinner conversations, or as a study group at any time.

Rewards:
Teacher Librarian (TL) will award five $100 prizes for the best visual
representations of the new AASL Learning Standards. The award-winners will
be published in the October 2008 issue of TL.

DEADLINE: JUNE 15, 2008

Who Can Submit Entries: Any teacher-librarian or any group of
teacher-librarians, or any student or group of K-12 students. Library school
students may also participate. For example, suppose you have taught
information literacy a number of times over the last school year to a group
of students? As the culminating activity with them for the year, and as a
reflection about projects they have done in the library, give them copies of
the standards and challenge them to produce a visual model of those
standards giving their own interpretation of them. This could be
accomplished using a wide variety of graphical drawing software including
Inspiration, Microsoft Word, or other drawing software the students are
familiar with.

What to Submit: Submit a PDF of your interpretation of the content/intent of
the AASL Standards for the 21st-Century Learner from the adult's point of
view or from a student's point of view. TL includes two examples following
in this issue. The first is by Douglas Achterman, teacher-librarian at San
Beniot High School, Hollister, CA and is from the adult's point of view. The
other is by David V. Loertscher, co-editor of Teacher Librarian magazine and
is from the student's point of view. If your drawing has been done as a
group, describe the group and the activity that produced the drawing.

Submission Instructions: By June 15, 2008, submit a PDF version of the
drawing attached to an email and send it to David Loertscher at:
reader.davi at gmail.com with a copy to editor at teacherlibrarian.com.  Every
submission will be acknowledged. Winning entries will be selected soon
thereafter and winners notified by July 1, 2008. All entries will be
forwarded to the current AASL committee working on a revision of Information
Power for use in their work. Who knows, they may contact you for permission
to reprint.



-- 
Professor David V. Loertscher
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
312 South 1000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
801-755-1122
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