National School Library Standards vs. ISTE Standards (Blog #1)
All things considered, the National School Library (NSL) standards and the International S o ci ety for Technology in Education (ISTE) standards are quite complementary of each other. Although the ISTE standards (2016) focus specifically on technology, they can easily be used to implement the goals of the NSL standards. The foundation of the two sets of standards is similar. They both encourage educators to help students take charge of the inquiry process in an authentic way . There is a focus on both the learner and the educator in both sets of standards. A great example of th e way these standards can work together is the digital resource that Mary Lou O’Connor shared in her article, “Now Serving: An Appealing Menu of Di gital Literacy Tools and Resources” (2019). The “menu” is divided by the six shared foundations of the NSL standards and consequently broken down by the four domains within each...