"A perennial problem for schools, teachers and students is that
textbooks are increasingly expensive, quickly outdated and
physically cumbersome. A move away from reliance on textbooks
to the use of multimedia or online information (digital content)
offers many advantages, including cost savings, increased
efficiency, improved accessibility, and enhancing learning
opportunities in a format that engages today’s web-savvy students. "
http://www.nationaledtechplan.org/images/dev/PUSD_goodtogreat.pdf
Dear Folks,
Having been both a SLMS in a Catholic Title 1 school with no budget for technology
and barely books, except what I could garner in grants and donations for both, and
now a Tech Coordinator in a more upscale Catholic school, I am dismayed to see the
emphasis on Technology in both concern and budget, similar to that across the
country, it seems.
The Catholic Library Association of Washington DC (Elementary) is having their
first joint meeting with our Tech Coordinators to get the lay of the land regarding
what we are both about...it seems that these positions are melding into one where
budgets for staffing are slim, and that as usual, no one in administrations (local
or national) really understand the importance of the SLMS and how this affects
learning, despite the recent studies posted on this site!
My gut feeling is that unless these two professionals work together as team
teachers, frankly, libraries are in a bad way which means ultimately, so are our
students. I will certainly write letters, but our organization carries little
weight unfortunately..if anyone has a group letter outlining what we feel we need
as professionals, to which we can add our names, I would be happy to bring it to
our February 10 meeting.
Thank you,
Tina Hudak (trying to get back to books!)
--
Media Specialist
St. Bernadette School
Silver Spring, MD 20901
hudak@st-bernadetteelem.com
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