Visit ASLA online to contribute your comments to my recent post to the forum.   Here’s a copy in case you need a prompt….

On the first of March the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) released the draft K-10 Australian Curriculum documents for English, History, Mathematics and Science.

It is important for the teacher librarianship profession to consider the implications of this new curriculum on the library and information services of the school library.

What evidence is there of the inclusion of an inquiry based learning approach supported by a rich resource collection to assist students to development deep knowledge and skills?  Within each curriculum document there is reference to “general capabilities”.  This section in each document is a “must read” for teacher librarians as well as the “cross curriculum” – Links to other learning areas.

Have 21st Century learning skills be adequately captured?  We need to clearly see evidence of metaliteracy being covered – for example, literacy, information literacy, media literacy, digital literacy, visual literacy, cyberliteracy, information fluency – to attain the educational goals for young Australians.

The close of the consultation process is 23 May 2010.

BTW – I’ve attached a document entitled Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy to the forum post.  Well worth the read.