AASL Standards for the 21 st Century Learner

1. Big Ideas: Why these standards? Connecting to Colorado Active Learning Primary Sources provide an avenue to achieve these standards AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner

2. From Information Power to the 21st Century Learner • Information Power (AASL) • 1998 • What students need to be effective users of information • Standards for the 21st-Century Learner • 2007-08 • High skills to succeed in a global information world

3. Connecting to Colorado • Draft* 21st Century Skills and Abilities: Colorado's description of 21st century skills is a synthesis of the essential abilities students must apply in our fast changing world. These essentials skills are: • Critical thinking and reasoning (for example, but not limited to: problem solving, analysis, logic, cause/effect) • Information literacy (for example, but not limited to: knowledge acquisition, source discernment, systems management) • Collaboration (for example, but not limited to: synergy, team resourcing, social skills, leadership) • Self-direction (for example, but not limited to: adaptability, initiative, personal responsibility, work ethics, self-advocacy) • Invention(for example, but not limited to: creativity, innovation, integration of ideas) *Colorado department of Education: http://www.cde.state.co.us/cdeassess/documents/OSA/stand_rev.html

4. AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner • Inquire • Create • Participate • Grow

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7. Standard 1: Skills “Unwrapped”

8. Standard 1: Dispositions “Unwrapped”

9. Standard 1 Responsibilities “Unwrapped”

10. Standard 1: Self-Assessment Strategies “Unwrapped”

11. Strands • Skills • Dispositions in Action • Responsibilities • Self-Assessment Strategies

12. AASL Standards in Academy 20 • What is the essence? • Share a story • What is new and different? • How do we model them? • How do we get buy in?

13. AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner. Image created in Wordle: http://www.wordle.net/

14. Learn and Explore More • AASL Standards for the 21st Century Learner • http://www.ala.org/aasl/standards • Comparing old and new AASL standards • http://www.schoollibrarymedia.com/articles/correlations2008v24n6.html • Exploring the AASL standards (powerpoint) • http://workshops.rrlc.org/documentview.asp?docID=760 • Big 6 skills and AASL standards • http://www.janetsinfo.com/big6info.htm • Standards for the 21st Century Learner in Action(2009) • http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/aaslproftools/standardsinaction/standardsinaction.cfm • ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) • http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS