Re: GEN: computers vs print

[John McNeill <MrM@MAIL.SJMS.JORDAN.K12.UT.US>]

Hi,

It occurs to me that another role is that of teaching people to
evaluate what they find on the net, give credit where credit is due,
and how to incorporate this new technology as an integral part of
their curriculum with new teaching strategies, goals, and objectives
or this new technology will follow the path of other great
technological advances such as the book, chalk and chalk board,
typewriter, overhead, record player, tape recorder, and VCR.
Something that is used until its novelty wears off and then collects
dust at the back of the room until something new needs to rest there
and takes its place.

> Date:          Sun, 2 Nov 1997 15:30:08 GMT
> Reply-to:      Duncan Grey <Duncan.Grey@A4503.CAMCNTY.GOV.UK>
> From:          Duncan Grey <Duncan.Grey@A4503.CAMCNTY.GOV.UK>
> Subject:       GEN: computers vs print
> To:            LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU

> Carlton Martz asks "Your school is wired ...What is your role in this
> environment?" Good question.
>
> The main role is surely teaching users how to deal with the information.
> It's information handling skills. It was never enough to say - "here's a
> library with lots of answers - go find something useful".
> Even if we assume all the answers are there (and that's a big assumption -
> remember the definition of the World Wide Web: it's a gargantuan library
> _without a librarian_ and where some madman has turned the whole lot upside
> down and left it in a heap, with some vital bits missing) someone will be
> needed firstly to guide people through it and secondly to show them how to
> guide _themselves_ through it. And that's an everlasting job!
> I don't see The Wired School doing away with the role of librarian, but
> making it more important!
> Duncan
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John McNeill
Computer Coordinator, South Jordan Middle School
South Jordan UT
MrM@mail.sjms.jordan.k12.ut.us

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