Re: GEN: Teens: Internet Over Library

[Darlene A Yasick <lib027yas1@JUNO.COM>]

Things are the same here. I agree with what you say. Teachers don't help
any with the situation when they insist that the resources be from the
internet only-- especially after I spent a large share of my budget on
new, authoritative sources for their classes. Did have a good experience
today. The health teacher was in with her classes. I have bought lots of
materials for her classes because she encourages kids to use print
resources first. Anyway she told the kids that they could NOT print
anything from the internet or photocopy pages from the reference
books---they had to take notes! She explained to the kids that they need
to be able to find the main ideas of the information that they were
looking for-- she didn't want a huge paper just the main facts that they
were asked to find about the disease they were researching. The kids were
focused for the entire period instead of just running off copies and then
chit-chatting. We talked about how kids don't really even know what they
are looking for and often don't see it when it is directly in front of
them. Michigan has a very high stakes test- MEAP- that requires students
to find the main ideas of a reading selection and then do some writing on
the topic/ or answer questions about it. She thought that this would be
excellent practice for them. I'll bet the assignments will be much better
than what she usually gets.
Darlene Yasick
Media Specialist
Hopkins High School
lib027yas1@juno.com
Only the mediocre man is always at his best-- Somerset Maugham

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