Must not be my students attending the UR then. I am appalled by their lack
of skills --- I really see the difference between the public system who has
the ability to teach skills from K-8 (assuming they have a librarian) and my
students. Many of mine come from non-library (and librarian) backgrounds and
one of biggest challenges is to impress the faculty of the need to use the
library. My students enter the school not even knowing Dewey, much less the
big 6.
Some do go on to the UR - I am sure the librarians there are cursing me.
Allan
Dr. Allan O'Grady Cuseo (Brother Donogh Allan, MGC)
Bishop Kearney High School Library
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Rochester, New York 14617
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brisco, Shonda" <briscos@TRINITYVALLEYSCHOOL.ORG>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] GEN: National Education Technology Plan / Information
Literacy--venting
I've come to the conclusion that all of the "tech-savvy" students
attend the University of Rochester--which is where Mr. Wilder reflects
upon and writes about his library patrons' use of the resources
available to them and their uncanny ability to do un-assisted research
on most topics without ever entering the library itself.....but...
.... "Drat! Those English teachers who have failed to properly instruct
the students at Rochester in writing skills (i.e., the use of
information / synthesis...oops, that would be Big 6) once the
information was located through unassisted Googling!"
~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
briscos@trinityvalleyschool.org
-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Katherine A. Wright
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:51 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] GEN: National Education Technology Plan / Information
Literacy--venting
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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