Spin the Yarn

That the beginning of the podcast that I was assigned to listen to for class began with a discussion of conspiracy theories as the lead into a discussion about fake news felt like serendipity to me. Over the past several months, I have been listening to a podcast called Conspiracy! The Show , which is hosted by two comedians who take a conspiracy theory and present the alleged proof both for and against the theory. On several occasions, one of the hosts, Adam Tod Brown (2017-Present), has made the observation that the same level of scrutiny is not often applied to the people who debunk conspiracy theories, as it is to the people who present them. The validity of that point might be considered questionable by the metrics laid out by The Liturgists Podcast host Science Mike (2014-Present), in the episode “Fake News and Media Literacy,” as I have referenced it without a direct citation. I feel like one of the main points that Science Mike was trying to make in that episode though, was th

This week, we have been looking at the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards. Briefly, the AASL Standards cover three areas: Learners, the School Library, and the School Librarian. The standards for each are broken down into the same six key areas: Inquire, Include, Collaborate, Curate, Explore, and Engage. Each of those areas is further broken down into four domains: Think, Create, Share, and Grow (AASL, 2018a). The ISTE Standards seek to create, “high-impact, sustainable, scalable and equitable learning experiences for all learners,” through the use of technology (“The ISTE Standards,” n.d., para. 1). The ISTE Standards have five sections (Students, Educators, Education Leaders, Coaches, and ISTE Computational Thinking Competencies), but the two that I am going to be focusing on are Students and Educators. The standards for Students are: Empowered Learner, Digital Citizen, Knowledge Constructor, Innovat