Hi Irene, as a paid founding member you can catch up on all the Twitter Spaces chats since September here...https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/schoollibrariescpd/paid-members-only Let me know if you have any problems.

Thanks for your post @Irene Reid our Twitter Spaces Chat was last night at 7pm where we discussed this. It sounds as if you have managed to get things organised really well to ensure your students are able to use the library still which is great! It would have been good if you could have joined in last night and shared your story there. I notice that you are only an hour ahead of us in the UK so when we talk again on October 4th at 7pm (8pm your time) you might be able to join in live. You just need to follow me on Twitter @elizabethutch at the right time for the link to the chat. You need to be on your phone not your laptop. I look forward to chatting to you next time hopefully.

Hi @Stephanie I agree 'click bait' is certainly a contributor to this problem. I would like to think that an inquiry that students are interested in may help teach students to read more deeply. Investing themselves into the process could help I feel. Teachers need to work with inquiry for this to work though. Otherwise we get students who are happy to regurgitate the information they need for exams and also continue to live in an online bubble. This for me is the truly scary part of all of this as it leads to students who can't think for themselves or voice an opinion based on facts.

This article was written 3 years ago. Do you think our understanding of reading within a digital environment has changed much since then? I personally believe that students read headlines more than ever, don’t read as deeply as they used to and are taught to regurgitate information rather than learn how to read and explain it. How can we change this within the classes we teach?

I certainly would never be able to be a member of Mensa @Magdalena Vidgen... that is very impressive! 😊. I do know that I have become a more proficient reader the more I have read. I have also found ways to engage my brain that I didn't before... things like highlighting and saving important information. As long as I save it in a logical place I can usually find it again when I need it. Might not be logical to others but it works for me 😊.

@Magdalena Vidgen That is so exciting... I hope you get the chance to present at your INSET. You should also go on the FOSIL Group forum and share what you did with your Geography class. If you think you can then this is is where we should post it https://fosil.org.uk/forums/forum/inquiry-and-resource-design/

@madvidgen Oh I know.. there is never enough time and many school librarians work on their own. I suppose it is about focusing on what is the most important. Recognising that some things are just not going to get done because there is not enough time. Maybe make a list of what you are no longer doing because you are focusing on Media and Information literacy and share it with your line manager. Your focus is to get yourself a library assistant but you need evidence that you can't do this on your own. I would be really interested to hear about your new MIL curriculum. Are you using any of the FOSIL resources?

@madvidgen I love the idea of one article... It is a great way to support students in a very structured way. Using the first article to work through the techniques and maybe give them a second one to work through themselves.

@madvidgen yes I too was aware that CRAAP and SIFT were flawed but it is definitely easier to teach using such lists. However we do need to be aware of where to go beyond them. Yes I agree that it is getting harder and harder to navigate the internet. Finding the truth certainly is not as easy as it used to be. I think teaching how the likes of Google manipulate what you see is a great lesson to teach students. I am delighted to read that reading this article has made you think about the way you teach. Certainly is a great learning opportunity.

There are some great discussion questions on the Project Information Literacy website. Here is one of their questions to get us started... How would adopting a proactive perspective on evaluation change the ways you currently teach evaluation of sources? Would it have any effect on how you teach searching for information?

CRAAP and SIFT have long been a way of teaching website evaluation. It seems, however, that the evolution of the internet has made these checklists difficult to use as a guarantee to find a genuine website. Is it time to change our practices? Quote - This change in thinking allows us to move from reactive evaluation, that is, “Here is what I found, what do I think of it?” to proactive evaluation, “Because I understand where this information came from and why I’m seeing it, I can trust it for this kind of information, and for this purpose.” Does the quote above make you think differently about how you will teach website evaluation? What are the problems or benefits you can envisage with this approach?

Thanks for your comment Stephanie, I would agree that this is a fascinating look at why reading is important. It is always good to have a different angle to approach it from. It sounds like you have a busy summer of reading ahead 😊. I am looking for recommendations so if you think any of the ones you read are good then let me know. My summer non-fiction is Teaching for Inquiry: Engaging the Learner within.

I love your answer to number 1 @Stephanie especially this - "They can become more rounded individuals through this and gain empathy for others in different positions. This all supports a goal of tackling inequality". School Libraries/librarians are steeped in this. Supporting our students to gain knowledge for themselves whilst providing the resources and opportunity to do this is one of the school libraries core purpose.

What a fascinating read! Rather than post a question this month I thought I would share my thoughts about the article and invite you to comment below. The more I read the more I could see the value that school libraries have brought to students and teachers throughout the pandemic. However, it clearly highlights the inequality to those students who don't have online access at home. How can school libraries support this inequality? I loved this quote "growth of the internet has fostered a false belief that all information is now free" (Kirkland). Highlighting that when a school libraries physical collection is not accessible the cost of e-books and online academic resources are usually way out of reach for a school library budget. What are we doing to make our resources universally accessible to all our students? I was also intrigued about the role the school librarian plays in providing a 'safe space' online as well as in the physical library and it made me wonder how this would work in practice, as it relies on a very special relationship and understanding partnership with teachers. Do our school librarians have a good enough relationship with their teachers to help them understand how they could support this? I was delighted to read how inquiry learning was very much part of the plan for the post-COVID world and a school librarians role in supporting students which "require tools to engage with information through a process of selection, sense-making and sharing" (Gini-Newman). This clearly for me provides many opportunities for school librarians especially via FOSIL. The last point I wanted to highlight from this piece was the leadership role of the school librarian. Ensuring students "develop transferrable skills, digital citizenship values and gain confidence in their library skills to comfortably transfer to university or public libraries without 'library anxiety' " (Mathur). If we want to close the gap between those who have and those that don't we need to ensure access for all. If our students are leaving school without knowing where they can access support and quality information are we failing them? "Libraries remove barriers" (Davies) but only if we provide students with the opportunities to access. Please feel free to add your thoughts below. I would love to hear what you found interesting/useful from this article.

@Stephanie I love the idea of having an 'official record' of your CPD that you can share with your line manager. Not only are you raising awareness of what you are doing but also helping them understand the different aspects of your role.

I am delighted that you are feeling positive about your CPD @Ruth Maloney. You raise an interesting question that others may be able to answer about logging your professional development. I think there are a few ways to pull resources together that you read such as Scoopit and Pinterest as they allow you to separate content and also comment on your learning. I always try to help others understand what I have learnt from what I am sharing which helps me explain it to myself too. I closed my Scoopit account as I found I just had too many places that I was saving and sharing. I do still have a Pinterest page but it does not get used very often these days https://www.pinterest.com/Elizabethutch/_saved/ I now use three (see I still have too many!) methods to log my learning. One is this forum as the discussion is part of my reflection. The second is for those smaller personal learning opportunities, like twitter chats and a small article I have read and for this I use a word doc. which allows me to note it and again I add a small comment about why that was important and what I learnt. I must admit that I do need to remind myself to fill it in but find I am more focused if there is a purpose such as re-validating my Fellowship. Sometimes I find that I am doing CPD just because it has appeared and I am interested. The twitter chats that I join in are hardly ever library related but I find them useful as they tend to be education/teacher/school related. My third way is my blog. I try to write something every month (I am currently failing to do this!) and this is where my larger refections pieces come in. I would be really interested to hear how others log their learning.

Perfect! If you need any help then don't hesitate to ask on the forum . I offer training on using FOSIL which can be found on my website or just send me an email and I will help where I can.

@s-mullen That sounds very exciting and great that you have found some professional development that fits with your plan. How do you plan to support your main focus? Are you planning to support research skills too? If you have a new cohort of year 7's it is the perfect time to find a framework and integrate it into your library plan so they have all the skills they need when they leave at 16/18. Check out FOSIL (Framework Of Skills for Inquiry Learning). It might be just what you need. Their website can be found here... https://fosil.org.uk/

@Stephanie @dawnwoods2000 I think social media is a tricky one. It certainly involves the potential to stay in your bubble and takes real skill to not do this. I can't say that I have managed it myself and often steer clear of difficult conversations. I would rather keep my head below the parapet than engage in some of the edutwitter discussions. Many of whom seem to get very heated. We do however as school librarians need to engage in how our students are finding information through social media. Just the other day I was hearing about students finding out from TikTok that the story of Helen Keller was a myth and the librarian was struggling to engage the students in the true story. It is things like this that we have to learn how to teach and engage with. We should not be frightened of new technology or tools we need to engage and become confident. We need to be one step ahead of our students. A big ask but important, I feel.

I am delighted you like the Google lesson. They seem to have done so much work on it that could be useful to both older primary and early secondary. A transition project sounds perfect! I don't think there is a conflict either and am happy to say that my first reading of this article made me see how closely information literacy and inquiry work together. My own understanding of the article was clouded by others comment made to me outside of this discussion. I certainly don't think FOSIL is falling into that trap either 😊.