[LM_NET] GEN: What and why do we teach?

[Deborah Stafford <deborah.stafford@T-ONLINE.DE>]

As one of the participants in this philosophical discussion, here are my
thoughts.

>>If we're information literacy teachers, on any given day, I teach
PowerPoint,
atlases, fractions (yes, math), rarely, if ever, do I directly teach
reading; I scaffold and support it, but I teach it indirectly.<<

My days are very similar but when I teach PowerPoint, or Adobe PhotoShop, or
anything technology or print related, I HOPE that I am teaching it
indirectly
at point of need. I don't always, but for the most part the things that I
"teach" are done as part of a larger project. And I also teach do teach
reading,
if mostly how to read from a non-fiction source.

Much of my "teaching" is done on an individual basis, for example
today I was showing a student how to make a hanging indent in word, another
how to
get signed on to our subscription career website and helped a student
understand
a paragraph on burns.

I am asking this question, not to incite anyone but because I truly don't
know the answer.
Why would reading to students, not be considered teaching?

As Toni said, her thinking has been clarified. I still feel that technology
provides us
tools to do our jobs as "information literacy" specialists better. But they
are tools,
the focus should be on the "information literacy".

Deborah Stafford
Gen. H.H. Arnold High School
Wiesbaden, Germany
deborah.stafford@t-online.de

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