SNL NEWSLETTER
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SNL consistently advocates on behalf of school libraries to the Elected Trustees, Board of Managers, elected officials, administration, library staff, and you, their community of stakeholders. Published monthly during the school year. |
What can school librarians do?
October 4-10 is Freedom to Read Week. National Free Speech Week is October 20-26. Both of these celebrate the First Amendment to the US Constitution, an amendment that is for EVERYONE. The First Amendment protects five freedoms: religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. Together, they guarantee that all ideas can be expressed, heard, and challenged openly. Libraries of all types put First Amendment freedoms into PRACTICE by supporting these rights for everyone, regardless of personal beliefs or viewpoints. Library collections inform, educate, and inspire, but do not endorse. Patrons can access many viewpoints; by exploring ideas, individuals can reach their own conclusions. Celebrate your and your students’ RIGHT TO READ, THINK and SPEAK. Story Showdown Episodes will be available on the First Book Community Platform, a space dedicated to providing programming for educators serving under-resourced communities. There is free guest access. The next two Showdowns are October 13 and November 12. The Showdowns are designed for educators of students ages 9-14. The show is the result of a partnership between literary nonprofits First Book and One Word at a Time, which was founded by Kwame Alexander. IMAGE SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/FirstBook/posts/-get-ready-for-story-showdown-a-new-three-part-virtual-series-from-first-book-an/1561269546039844/   What is AI? Why Resist it? Downloadable handout from NELA Alliance for Democracy, a grassroots civic group focusing on local political action, civil liberties, and systemic state violence. This flyer accompanies a four-part webinar series, but stands on its own as well. The topics are AI & Labor, AI & Education, AI and the Environment, and AI & Surveillance. "AI & Education: AI poses serious and long-term risks to education and critical thinking. It conflates fact with disinformation or fiction. Its classification algorithms promote bias. Its user-affirming behavior can create biased echo chambers and extremist views. It discourages humans from learning foundational knowledge and analytical skills. Instead, it reduces humans to passive receivers of information. Yet, the Trump Administration is offering grants to public schools to bring AI learning into classrooms. Meanwhile, the latest buzz in private education is Alpha Schools, which rely on AI, without teachers, to teach students academic subjects." Mike Miles is bringing Alpha Schools under his own name "Future 2 Schools." The MOST IMPORTANT takeaway this month is:  Make sure you and ALL your friends are registered and VOTE.
CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION - make sure you are not "in suspense" through state error.
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