One set of standards - please!

Check this chart.

 In reply to Tim Stahmer's Two Very Different Kinds of Literacy.

 Think of the power if the techs and librarians all got behind ONE set of AASL/ISTE standards!

What is keeping this from happening? 

Comments

[Kim]

Hi Doug,

I actually did a summer recertification course that involved just that. We used the framework of the Big6 to create a bunch of documents that could be used by school librarians in South Carolina to identify the IL and ISTE NETS standards that they would be addressing. It's still available on the SC DOE website, but pretty well buried. <https://www.myscschools.com/offices/tech/ms/lms/page1360.cfm>

I am sure it could be modified to meet any librarian's needs as SC did not adopt any state specific IL standards, we used Information Power. My main beef with the above site is that each portion has to be downloaded individually. Even so, it's a nice place to start.

Kim

[Doug Johnson]

Kim,

You make a great point - that many state standards that now exist are combination information and technology literacy standards. This is true in Minnesota where we only have "unofficial" standards at:

http://www.memoweb.org/htmlfiles/linkslitstandards.html

Thanks for the comment!

Doug

[John Pederson]

How do we get beyond standards = documents? It irritates me much like "I'm going to write curriculum." Blah. No. I'm chasing my own tail here. Look away.

Standards are the bottom rung of the ladder that we expect students (and teachers) to reach. Chew on that. And yeah, if we have to go there (we do), 1 set of standards. We don't have different widths of train tracks. And somehow, somebody got consensus on matching the number of shower curtain rings in package with the number of holes in the curtain. We still have a ways to go with hot dogs. And Internet Explorer.

[Sara Kelly Johns]

It's hard to follow John's posting :-D but...in the new AASL Strategic Plan, the IP2 standards will be reviewed for revision in 2006. Sara J