We Can Teach That - Information Literacy for School Librarians

In the academic, education and library worlds we have been using the term information literacy to cover a very broad spectrum of different types of literacies. And here is the most interesting thing: school librarians have been teaching these literacies forever under the terms of library skills and research skills.

List of contents

Foreword Barbara Stripling
Preface Ewa Dziedzic -Elliott
Chapter 1: Visual Literacy Rachel Anne Mencke
Chapter 2: Navigating Developmental Milestones: Information Literacy for Elementary School Students Amanda Harrison
Chapter 3: Preparing for the Unknown: Media Literacy in Elementary School Katherine Counterman
Chapter 4: Health Literacy Eleanor Layo Freed
Chapter 5: Information Literacy in Middle School Beth Thomas
Chapter 6: Visual Literacy in the Age of AI Cathy Collins
Chapter 7: Teaching Tech Literacy from Toddlers to Tweens Tricina Strong-Beebe
Chapter 8: Shifting Our Thinking From "Digital Natives" to "Digital Awareness" Steve Tetreault
Chapter 9: Preparing School Librarians to Integrate Visual Literacy Using Artificial Intelligence Lesley Farmer
Chapter 10: Multicultural and Cultural Literacy in K-12 Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott
Chapter 11: How Images Manipulate Us Robbie Barber
Chapter 12: Developing Information Literacy Habits for College and Beyond Holly A. Weimar, Elizabeth A. Gross, Ashley B. Crane
Chapter 13: Information Literacy in High Schools: Designer Librarians Needed Brenda Boyer
Chapter 14: High School Students Learning Media Literacy Olga Polites
Chapter 15: Teaching Students to Decode the World: Librarians as Leaders for Media
Literacy Chris Sperry
Chapter 16: Student Inquiry Moves: Customizing Performance Evaluation for School Librarians Deborah Lang Froggatt and Mary H. Moen
Chapter 17: Academic and School Library Partnerships focused on Professional Development in Information Literacy Neil Grimes and Gary Marks

About the author

Ewa Dziedzic Elliott has spent over 10 years as a K-12 school librarian in the state of New Jersey. As an executive board member and a president of New Jersey Association of School Librarians she stood at the helm of the association during the time when teaching information literacy became a law in January 2023.
She has exercised the state standards revisions and writing: NJDOE State Standards: Information and Media Literacy 2019-2020; NJ Students Learning Standards Review 2019; ELA Instructional Unit Standards 2019.
Dziedzic-Elliott recently published articles focus on college readiness and closing the research gaps between K-12 and college/ academic institutions, such as (Valenza, J. K., Dalal, H., Mohamad, G., Boyer, B., Berg, C., Charles, L. H., . . . Dziedzic-Elliott, E. (2022). First years' information literacy backpacks: What's already packed or not packed? The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 48(4), 102566. doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102566).
Based on experiences accumulated through working on state standards and research, Dziedzic-Elliott strongly believes that information literacy instruction can be the response to the question of closing the college readiness and research gaps between K-12 and higher education.

Product details

• Authors: Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott
• Assisted by: Ewa Dziedzic-Elliott (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.2024
• EAN: 9781538189092
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-8909-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Study Aids / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Computers / General, Language: reference & general, Schools, Educational: IT and computing, ICT, Schools and pre-schools, Educational: General studies / study skills general, Educational: Study skills, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Schools / General