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Sunday, November 13th Concurrent Session (2:15pm-3:15pm) Information & Digital Literacy • All =**//Room 103//**= The session discusses reading for pleasure as one of the critical pathways for lifelong learning in the context of research and the mission for school library media programs. In view of the decline of reading for pleasure especially among adolescent learners in spite of numerous beneficial outcomes, SLM leaders have the opportunity to creatively instill students’ love of reading through SLM programs. With that aim, ReadReviewRecommend program will be described and demonstrated. It connected reading and writing with widely popular social media and mobile devices, and made reading exciting and meaningful across different levels of reading comprehension, individual preferences, and technological competencies. //Zorana Ercegovac, SLM Faculty, Drexel University// Will be discussing //Common Belief// #1 **Reading is a window to the world** (AASL 2009, p.12) and learn: To blend in classical resources such as laptops and books with emerging broadband mobile devices such as smart-phones, e-readers, smart-books for the purpose of creating, reflecting upon, and sharing. To demonstrate how advisory reading programs can be powerful ways in developing higher order cognitive skills. This presentation is based on my forthcoming paper titled "**//Letting students use Web 2.0 tools to hook one another on reading//**," to appear in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of **KnowledgeQuest**. Here's the intro; just as soon as the paper appears, I will prepare an abbreviated version for this page :-) ** Abstract **   This article discusses reading for pleasure as one of the critical pathways for lifelong learning in the context of the mission for school library media programs. The reviewed studies indicate that reading for pleasure results in numerous beneficial outcomes including greater academic achievement among teenagers regardless of their socioeconomic background. In view of the decline of reading for pleasure especially among adolescent learners, school library media leaders have the opportunity to creatively instill students’ love of reading through school library media programs. With that aim, a prototype program ReadReviewRecommend (RRR) was created using the reviewed research as guidelines combined with triangulated empirically obtained data from participating middle school students in an urban secondary school in Los Angeles. The project connected reading and writing with social media and made it meaningful across different levels of reading and technological competencies. ** Introduction ** In the rapidly changing globalized world, we cannot prepare today’s teenagers for every possible outcome, but we can give them the skills that will make them adaptable in the 21st century learning and work settings. Ultimately, we need to address the following question: what are some of the exciting and innovative ways of instilling students’ love of reading that school library media programs (SLiMPs) ought to lead?
 * Preparing Future Generations For A Rapidly Changing Globalized World**

As a framework for this discussion, I will be using the mission for school library media programs, which is to ensure that students are effective users of ideas and information by being critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information (AASL 2009; AASL and AECT 1998). Library media specialists, through their leadership, translate this mission statement into practice by engaging students in meaningful learning experiences, providing access to materials in all formats, and instilling a love of reading. While the primary focus of Information Literacy (IL) has been directed toward teaching research skills (e.g., how to locate information effectively, think critically, use and manage information ethically), reading for pleasure is as valuable but less represented in IL literature. These services are critical for secondary school readers, but all lifelong learners are beneficiaries of reading for pleasure. When anyone can post his or her contents on the Web, we need more than ever before, to develop savvy consumers/developers of information. It is especially critical now when “everything is out there,” giving the impression to a naïve user that a Google search on a mobile device will instantly get a gazillion of snippets all of equal weight and quality. We argue that instilling love of reading, in addition to other skills traditionally included in IL programs, is essential for school library media programs. ReadReviewRecommend, a program that was created and carried out with middle school students in an urban secondary school in Los Angeles will be described. The program connected reading and writing with widely popular social media and mobile devices, and made reading exciting and meaningful across different levels of reading comprehension, individual preferences, and technological competencies. Participating students assumed a leading role in partnership with teacher librarians. We believe that self-motivated reading advisory programs within school libraries, such as RRR, may lead to beneficial lifelong outcomes.

We support the **IDEA(L)** : **I**NQUIRY, **D**ISCOURSE, **E**THICAL CITIZENSHIP, and **A**CCOUNTABLE ACADEMIC FREEDOM of elite teacher **l**ibrarians. More later. See you in November! The presentation has resulted in several publications: "LETTING STUDENTS USE WEB 2.0 TOOLS TO HOOK ONE ANOTHER ON READING" -- to appear as //Feature Article// in **KnowledgeQuest** January 2012. For more information on the presenter: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/zer Ercegovac is on the faculty at //iSchool//, Drexel University (top ten library and iSchools in US); she teaches graduate courses in school library media programs (SLiMPs), information access and resources, online searching, and others.