ISCI 794 Blog Assignment: Curate (Post 4)
AASL National School Library Standards for School Librarians Shared Foundation: Curate For the Shared Foundation Curate, I spoke to an elementary school library at a public magnet school. This school library program has a strong emphasis on teaching students in every grade level how to find, critically evaluate, and use information. In the Think Domain, the standards state that school librarians should "challenge learners to act on an information need by designing opportunities for learners to explore possible informations sources" and "make critical choices about information sources to use" (American Association of School Librarians, 2018, p. 94). The school librarians designs many lessons around fulfilling information needs. For example, the fifth grade classes have a lesson around various information sources. The librarian shows a few online databases and the students are asked to identify the different information found on various pages. She will open a specif...
