I'm totally with you, Jeri. As a librarian and former English teacher, I found it
extremely aggravating for an English teacher to suggest that because students have
learned to text on their own, schools don't need to be involved in how kids read on
the Internet. Since when is texting some sort of high level skill? Sure, kids learn
that on their own, but it's also wreaking havoc on their grammar and writing
mechanics. Is that how we want them to learn to read and process the Internet?
That's what you get without the schools getting involved.
Marsha ReddLibrarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.comEducation is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone
is a student. Everyone is a teacher.
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> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:03:43 -0400
> From: JHurd@KLHT.ORG
> Subject: [LM_NET] GEN: NYT article: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> 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
>
>
> School Library Media & Network Communications
> on July 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM -0400 wrote:
>>GEN: NYT article: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
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