Re: [LM_NET] GEN: NYT article: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I have always viewed my job as "educating students, teachers, and other adults."  
Our reach is much more than just our library classroom.
 
Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
School Library Media Specialist
Apple Creek Elementary
Moore, OK
lisa3moon@yahoo.com 



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From: Jeri Hurd <JHurd@KLHT.ORG>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 6:03:43 AM
Subject: GEN: NYT article: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

What worries me about this article--which I thought was much more balanced
than the one in The Atlantic (Is Google Making You Stupid?) is the English
teacher towards the end of the article who said there's no need to teach
students how to read online.

Since when have students not needed to learn critical thinking skills? In
fact, I think these are MORE important online, as learning to distinguish
between credible and non-credible sources is more imperative online than
in print, if only because most of the books students are exposed to in
school are pre-selected.

The head of our History Dept. is teaching a research skills class this
summer. He came into the library the other day bewailing the fact that
students just start Googling, even when he supplies them with a list of
portals such as the Best of History site.

I laughed and told him "Welcome to my world..."    

This is the same man who told me his honors 9th graders didn't need the
same research/citation lessons I gave the rest of the 9th graders when
they were doing their history papers.  I couldn't convince him otherwise, 
and spent the next month giving individual lessons when they came in not
knowing what to do.

This just verifies what this past year working as a librarian has taught
me: I have just as big a job educating the teachers as I do the students!

End of rant!  (grin)

Jeri Hurd
Library Media and Technology Specialist
King 
1450 Newfield Avenue
Stamford, CT  06905
203-322-3496 ext. 332
jhurd@klht.org

TechBlog:  http://www.bib20.blogspot.com

"I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous
group. They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the
desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution,
man. I wouldn't mess with them."    Michael Moore


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