About this episode

The episode discusses the vital role of school librarians in education, reflecting on friendship and the impact of AI and social media on thought processes.

Celebrating 3 years of chat and 15 years of friendship! Thanks to everyone for listening and making this podcast worthwhile. Today we discussed Pope Leo's first encyclical, Tolkien and our clarity of purpose. A great question or statement that stood out from this conversation is: how do we focus on what we allow our minds to dwell on… an appropriate thought in today’s world of AI and social media. After some reminiscing with Darryl, we got down to laying the foundation for our next episode, which is the school librarian's vital contribution to the educational process in terms of Dallas Willard's 4 factors involved in the domain of thought, namely, (1) ideas, (2) images, (3) information, and (4) our ability to think. Links * Keynote for the UK School Library Association 2021 Conference | Inquiry: An Educational and Moral Imperative (includes links to the IFLA School Library Guidelines and the IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto ). * SJSU 2026 | ALiVE Library | Teaching Inquiry as Conversation with David Loertscher now includes a link to the recording. Details of the book may be found here . * Article for The School Librarian (74:2) | Inquiry: Fundamentally Creative and…

People in this episode

Host: Elizabeth Hutchinson

Topics covered

• school librarianship
• education
• AI and social media
• thought processes
• friendship
• Tolkien

Keywords

• school librarians
• education
• AI
• social media
• thought
• Tolkien
• Dallas Willard
• friendship

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tolkien, Inquiry: An Educational and Moral Imperative, Inquiry: Fundamentally Creative and Fundamental to Creativity, Magnifica Humanitas, The School Librarian, ALiVE Library

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