AITSL Standard 1. Know students and how they learn.

AITSL Standard 2. Know the content and how to teach it.

AITSL Standard 3. Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning.

AITSL Standard 4. Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environment.

AITSL Standard 5. Assess, provide feedback and report on student learning.

AITSL Standard 6. Engage in professional learning.

AITSL Standard 7. Engage professionally with colleagues, parents/carers and the community.

I like AITSL Standard 3 – Plan for and implement effective teaching and learning. Bonanno, K. (2011) points out that “school libraries provide students with access to a variety of rich information sources and teacher librarians engage students in the inquiry process to develop their knowledge and understanding of the world within which they live.” (p.5) I could use the inquiry process to help students with their learning as Bonanno suggested.

Based on Australian School Library Association (ASLA), teacher librarians are curriculum leaders, information specialists and information managers. TLs as curriculum leaders “plan, teach and evaluate collaboratively with teachers to ensure the effective integration of information resources and technologies into student learning.” (p.2)

When TLs know national and state curriculums well and work collaboratively with other teachers, they enable students to learn and develop more information by providing well-organised resources and technologies. TLs as information specialists also provide extra assistance to students in need and teach them how to have good skills of information technology.

Reference

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Limited (AITSL). (n.d.). Retrieved April 15, 2019. from https://www.aitsl.edu.au/teach/standards

Australian School Library Association (ASLA). (2019). What is a teacher librarian? Retrieved March 18, 2019. from https://asla.org.au/what-is-a-teacher-librarian

Bonanno, K. (2011). Do school libraries really make a difference? Retrieved March 21, 2019. from http://www.austlil.edu.au/au/journals/inCiteALIA/2011/97.pdf Incite 32/5

I watched Karen Bonanno’s speech at ASLA, 2011 conference : A profession at the tipping point : Time to change the game plan. Karen encouraged TLs to upgrade ourselves and to make ourselves distinct from others. We will get what we focus on, so we need to look at glass half full. Her comments challenged me to have positive viewpoints in any situation.

I liked “Five finger plan to success” which Karen borrowed from the book of Midas Touch.

Five finger plan to success

• Thumb – Strength of character ( Establish pre-eminence : the you who shows up before you show up)
• Point finger – F.O.C.U.S (Follow one course until successful, Know your outcomes, Take action, Find out what works and what doesn’t, Re-align until you achieve 1)
• Middle finger – Brand ( What do you stand for? Who are you? Are you who you say you are?)
• Ring finger – Relationships (Build up relationships with students and teachers.)
• Little finger – Little things that count ( What you do that others don’t do, It’s all about them. What is your core story?)

In conclusion, TLs need to determine who our audiences are, what our focuses are and how we’re going to take action. Although people say the TL is a profession at the tipping point, still we have time to change it by practising “Five finger plan to success”. TLs will not be an endangered species if we do not allow it to be.

Reference

Trump & Kiyosaki, 2011, ‘Guide to developing your Midas Touch’ in The Midas Touch. Plata Publishing. Scottsdale. AZ.

Thinking about social media and the rise of celebrity and the local or home-grown expert, how important is being a qualified professional in society today?

In society today, most people use social media every day. They can access information about the celebrity and the local or home-grown expert. The dilemma is whether the information we obtain on the Internet and social media is true or false. Therefore, we need to have qualified professionals in information areas to get corrrect information quickly. The key professionals, including computing and telecommunications engineers, managers and research scientists are influencing the pace of technological change. (O’Connell, [201930_ETL 401] module 2, p.14)

They need to have qualification through training or education to play their roles well in this information society.

O’Connell, J. (2019). The information environment [S-ETL401_201930 module2] Retrieved March 9, 2019. From Charles Sturt University website : https://interact2.csu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_42380_1&content_id=_2633951_1&mode=view

In the information landscape there are three types of establishments of information sectors. They are “(1) those engaged in producing and distributing information and cultural products; (2) those that provide the means to transmit or distribute these products as well as data or communications; and (3) those that process data.” (O’Connell, 2019, ETL 401 module, p.14)

Which category do libraries fall under this definition? I think libraries are engaged in distributing information and cultural products as managers and distributors of information.

Reference

O’Connell, J. (2019). The information environment [S-ETL401_201930 module2] Retrieved March 9, 2019. From Charles Sturt University website : https://interact2.csu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_42380_1&content_id=_2633951_1&mode=view

We live in the information society. Thanks to the development of technologies, such as the Internet, the WWW, and social media, people can access information 24/7. I think the needs of the inhabitants of the inhabitants of the information landscape are driving technological change. When people need more upgraded data and information, they drive information to be more developed. Therefore, I can say that the society is in the control of using technology and it determines the rate of change according to its need.

Due to the ramifications of information, I am capable of studying ‘Introduction to Teacher Librarianship’ easily and usefully. Whenever I need resources, learning modules, readings and so on, I can access them. I think 3 benefits of the ramification are: 1) I can access the information of the subject and related readings anytime. 2) I can study the subject anywhere. 3) I can search anything related to the subject. It is very hard for me to find 3 negatives of the ramifications. However, I can say sometimes I miss face to face lecture time.

The tool is directing the user. What does this mean to me?

The information environment (ETL 401 module2, p 9) states that “Artificial Intelligence (AI) is built-in feature for many of the technologies used to access and participate in this landscape, so users don’t have to think about how to use it.” According to this, the user does not think about how to use technologies. Instead of it, the user is directed by the tool. This sounds bad becuase some users use technologies without thinking about them. It sounds like some users are losing their innovative thinking abilities when they use technologies.

O’Connell, J. (2019). The information environment [S-ETL401_201930 module2] Retrieved March 9, 2019. From Charles Sturt University website : https://interact2.csu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_42380_1&content_id=_2633951_1&mode=view