Miss Black Reads - SLIS 761

In a time when everyone is inundated with information, quite literally at their fingertips, Clay Johnson makes the claim that we need to be “conscious consumers rather than mindless scrollers” (Gungor & McHargue, 2017). Johnson is the author of The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption . During a podcast episode with “The Liturgists,” he discusses that as individuals who likely get the majority of our information from scrolling on social media, we must be mindful of the motivations behind those organizations regarding what information they are feeding into our newsfeeds. Johnson says that these online platforms operate on systems that filter out information that we might disagree with, and instead expose us to content that align more with our interests and beliefs. This leads us, as consumers, to receive an unhealthy “information diet” because we are not being exposed to varying perspectives or taking time to analyze sources for accuracy and legitimacy (Gungor & Mc...

  “School librarians must think of their role beyond offering a service to teachers or suggesting a flashy tech tool. Rather their goals and expertise make them an integral part of the literacy learning and instruction (broadly defined) that happens across the curricular areas” (Spiering, p. 46). “School librarians are an integral part of the literacy culture of a school and, therefore, must address the multiple literacies that are a part of our students’ lived realities today” (Spiering, p. 49). After familiarizing myself with the standards set forth by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National School Library Standards set forth by American Association of School Libraries (AASL), the two quotes above from Jenna Spiering seemed to relate so well to the objectives outlined in each set of standards. The ISTE standards focus more on learners and their digital literacy proficiency, while the AASL standards focus on how school librarians can support l...