BLOG POST 3

 For this Blog post I interviewed Ms. Wolfe whom is a librarian at a local middle school. During our interview we talked about Shared Foundation VI which is Engage. We talked about the domains Think, Create, Share and Grow and how she uses these daily in her library. The school librarian domains and competencies we focused on the most was under the Think domain.

“School librarians promote ethical and legal guidelines for gathering and using information by:

1.Directing learners to responsibly use information, technology, and media for learning, and modeling this responsible use.

2.Modeling the understanding of ethical use of information, technology, and media.

3.Teaching learners how and why to evaluate information for accuracy, validity, social and cultural context, and appropriateness for need (AASL, 2018, p.112).”

 

Ms. Wolfe thinks this is a very important domain for librarians to cover. She usually starts off teaching copyright laws and how to correctly cite sources early. By middle school students should know what copyright laws are but they may not have had to correctly cite a source in a paper yet. In middle school they really start trying to complete their assignments using resources such as Chat GPT and Wikipedia. Ms. Wolfe tries to show students when it is appropriate to use those resources which is during the brainstorming session of research. She also teaches classes on Media Literacy and how to be a responsible user of technology.

 

Ms. Wolfe co-teaches lessons with teachers on how to use technology responsibly. Some of these lessons include role playing for the students on how they would ethically handle certain situations. This activity gives the student the chance to see what ethical mistakes are out there that they could make and the consequences of them.

 

As a librarian teaching students not to steal someone else’s work is important but when you teach the students the why it is important that they will see why citing is necessary. One way to do this is by taking a winning student’s piece of artwork and put another student’s name under it and give the students that did not do it all of the credit. Activities like this make it meaningful and they will remember why they should not do this.

 

References

 

AASL. (2018). National school library standards for learners, school librarians, and school libraries. American Library Association.