Sassy Stacks: A blog for school librarians

                   eSchool News: Innovations in Education Transformation  https://www.eschoolnews.com/2017/04/10/resources-information-literacy/ The copious amount of information hurling itself at us daily is astounding and overwhelming. We hear podcasts, commercials, and daily radio reports. We see near constant commercial reels on television and elsewhere, informative articles in our email inboxes, print material in our mailboxes, and minute-to-minute notifications on our phones for a plethora of apps. Without intermission, everything seems to be vying for our attention! It’s easy to get lost and confused in the constant swirl of news due to society’s steady use of various forms of technology and media tools that disseminate information. So, how do we successfully navigate this chaotic landscape?  Employ information and media literacy. Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education https://www.oercommons....

The American Association of School Libraries (AASL) provide the National School Library Standards. These act as a practical guide for librarians to design or personalize their own curriculum and be influencers in their schools. The AASL standards consist of five components: Shared Foundations, Key Commitments, Domains, Competencies, and Alignments. The Shared Foundations are made up of six elements: Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Explore, and Engage. These Shared Foundations are further explained in more detail via the Key Commitments.   American Library Association, 2022. Four Domains are applied to the Shared Foundations: Think, Create, Share, and Grow. The Domains are learning categories that librarians and learners should progress through in order. For example, once mastery is achieved in Think, move on to Create. The standard Competencies are examples of how students and librarians demonstrate mastery for each domain. For example, learners in the inquiry process are t...