I found it very interesting that as I was reading the Natl. Tech. Plan about the
plethora of tech-savvy students, I spent the first 3 1/2 hours of my day giving the
same, old, tired spiels on technology/info. lit. basics:
"Gee, this disk is over 10 years old, it's only an 800k floppy and it has
fingerprints on
the disk medium; that might have something to do with why the file won't open."
"There are no files on this CD, did you format it? Yes, CDs need to be formatted
before you can drag and drop files. Really."
"I just spent 40 minutes recovering your term paper from your on-life-support floppy
with the crumbs on it, and now you are going to complain that you need to double
space it and change the margins?"
"No, I can't write a note to your teacher that something went wrong with your disk;
according to all my diagnostic software, there has never been a file on this disk.
Did
you save the file to your network account? NO? "
"No, the webmaster is not the author of this information, and if I were you I
wouldn't
use that site as source for Mr. X, it will have a negative effect on your grade.
Here's a
great source--well, yes, it is a book and you will have to read it. But all the
information
you need is right here."
"Of course Robert Frost is in that book, let's try looking him up by his last name"
"I think that you should skip Wikipedia as an authoritative source."
Job security; and where are all those info / tech-savvy students?
Katherine A. Wright
Library Media Specialist
Edwin H. Land Library
The Norwich Free Academy
305 Broadway
Norwich, CT 06360
vox: (860)887-2505 x415, x223
fax: (860)886-6854
email: wrightk@norwichfreeacademy.com
"Those librarians, that's one terrorist group you don't want to mess with."
-- Michael Moore
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