Lee Crockett

Somehow we missed this 2011 title, but it is and essential think piece for teacher librarians. The author trio present five major ways that a young person needs to develop fluency in if they are to succeed in the global world: information fluency, solution fluency, creativity fluency, collaboration fluency, and media fluency. They not only defend their five point model but offer excellent advice on how to implement each of these with young people. Using the scientific method as a fluency scaffold, each fluency has its own staircase to develop that ability. For example, in information fluency, their five steps are: Ask, Acquire, Analyze, Apply, and Assess. For solution fluency, the six steps are: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, and Debrief. For collaboration fluency, their five steps are: Establish, Envision, Engineer, execute, and Examine. When they finish describing each fluency, they bring all of them together as a method of creating digital citizens that they define as Personal Responsibility, Global Citizenship, Digital Citizenship, Altruistic Service, and Environmental Stewardship. In an attempt to build young people for the global world, we appreciate the wider conceptual model these authors envision. It will challenge you as a teacher librarian to rethink what you consider as information literacy and how you implement and integrate your ideas into collaborative learning experiences alongside the classroom teachers. It is time to take a broader look at the IL models we developed back in the 1980s and this book is an importat contribution to that analysis. This is a must read for every Teacher Librarian bent on moving to the center of teaching and learning.… (more)