Jean Darnell: Awaken Librarian

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 :

Hello Friends! We've reached May! Here in Texas, we have less than a month left before it's SUMMER, SUMMER, SUMMER TIME!!!!🎶🎵 It's also Asian American Pacific Islander Month and on the 4th of May is Star Wars Day! Rest assured that this newsletter hits all the highlights and celebrations this month has in store. Most importantly, for those students following this blog, ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE DUE BACK BY MAY 12, 2023! You can come in the library to return them OR drop them off in the C-hallway book-drop. I kept the newsletter short, which in kid language is long still. But what can I say--I've a way with words! 😂 Enjoy! Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth everyone!!! So excited to be celebrating with you all! A reminder that Asian Americans are not a monolith—we are a huge, wonderful community made up of people from many difficult cultures! So read widely! Be inspired! Learn & enjoy!!! ❤️📚🧧😍🔥🤩 pic.twitter.com/Zso22UKsMm — Kelly Yang (@kellyyanghk) May 1, 2023 ...

Here's a slide presentation of the same information with active "Open" link tabs that take you to a detailed explanation and sample of ChatGPT's work. It will explain exactly how you can use ChatGPT to expand literacy initiatives. Now for THE GOOD STUFF!!! Hot off the press and in collaboration with THE Matt Miller from Ditch that Textbook , here's a wonderful video that discusses my interaction with ChatGPT by Open AI: For the full lesson post directly from Ditch That Textbook, all you have to do is click here . AI for Literacy by Jean Darnell

I'm excited to share what's going on this month in the library. Yes, the newsletter below is a "call to action," but even more importantly, it's time to love your librarian! If People Magazine can celebrate our 2 AWESOME Texas Librarians (Yay, Carolyn and Becky!) making strides to keep students at the center of their book-choice selections for their own development and curiosities regarding their love of reading, then so can you! Meet all of the Texas Librarians you can this month at the Texas Library Association's Annual Conference in Austin , April 19-22, 2023. I'll be there interacting and uplifting as many of us as I can.💜 Within this newsletter you'll find all sorts of goodies from the wonders of AI (which I used to create this nifty, alter ego version of me ABOVE ☝🏾⏫☝🏾 ) to the actions you can take to speak-up about your LOVE for the library. Yes, it's a wee-bit long, but it's OUR LIBRARY MONTH, and everything is on the line in ...