Jean Darnell: Awaken Librarian!

As promised, for those of you that attended the ITRT (Innovation and Technology Round Table) Tech Chat , TODAY, here's the presentation I curated/created! Please reach out to me if you have any questions or would like for me to present this for your audience. Copy of ITRT & Awaken Lib Pres by Jean Darnell Thank you to Henry Stokes, leader of the ITRT and Technology Coordinator for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, for giving me the opportunity to instruct professional development for our librarians.🙌🏾 Mr. Stokes also recorded the presentation: SURVEY RESULTS ARE IN! Thank you to everyone who attended the live recording. I appreciate your questions. Please take a look at the feedback via the pictures below. I'd love to learn/collaborate with anything AI, so please feel free to reach out to me.

Greetings! This post is like a GUMBO for educational resources! I have a little bit of everything embedded into this newsletter: But I want to take a moment and discuss "Intellectual Humility." I was introduced to this via a post on X/Twitter: Self-awareness that you may not know everything. It's worth the lesson to question everything you think you know to be true. There's always your side, the other side, & the content without prejudice. Empathy, understanding & evaluation will get you closer to enlightenment, IMO. https://t.co/DeSGBWigpd — AwakenLibrarian (@awakenlibrarian) October 18, 2023 I found it pertinent to how " misinformation, disinformation and mal-information " interact and oppose intellectual humility . It's seems in this time of bombing, war, erasure and book bans, folks are running around like their ideas are transformative and their poo is potpurri! Simply put, we ALL need to take a step back, listen with the int

Happy #BannedBooksWeek. You may remember that this past spring, I tested AI on #BlackHistoryMonth using ChatGPT: AI in Favor of Racist? Now, 8 months later, I wanted to see what another AI resource, Google's Bard, would do with the prompt: Create a speech from a black woman's perspective on how book bans suppress the speech and freedoms of black people. include specific examples from the last 10 years. Here's the essay in its entirety, unaltered. Or you can just watch this video below: Below are further details on the analysis/feedback that I've thought about since making the video. It's a view "behind the veil" for librarians of color: I've endured more hatefulness as a librarian than I ever endured as an English teacher. One job cut my position "for budget reasons," during the pandemic, because I taught the book, The Hate U Give (Thomas, 2017), which that campus thought promoted anti-police behavior. Even when I moved to a n

Greetings! This month, we're celebrating all things Hispanic for our heritage month! Please see the newsletter below and all the curated resources it entails! MARK YOUR CALENDARS, BANNED BOOKS WEEK IS COMING! Oct. 1st - Oct. 7th!!

Welcome back, friends! I begin my 23 year in public education and in preparation for the school year, I realized that I never published my own library orientation !!! 🤯 Therefore... DMS Library Expectations Presentation by Eboni Darnell Here's our "Back-to-School" Newsletter too!

Join me today at 4:30 PM EST for a FREE school librarian professional development! The Boss Librarian and Awaken Librarian teamed up for another year of school librarian professional development. This time, for 4 whole days! When Overreach Becomes an Oversight by Jean Darnell #KCSaidIt, true to her word, if you missed the wonderfully, FREE #BossLibrarianPD, then please check out my RECORDED session here :