Spend a few minutes watching this video. Perhaps you can use it to educate your staff or at least start a conversation about the “image of the librarian.”
February 26, 2008
February 22, 2008
Intellectual Freedom
As some of you start making plans to attend our summer course here on campus, here is an editorial from the recent SLJ that may help to start you thinking about some of the issues that will be a part of this course.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6526712.html
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.htm
The Library Bill of Rights link doesn’t open in the article so the correct link is above.
February 5, 2008
February 4, 2008
Asking questions
I was just reading David Warlick’s blog and came across this information. This comes from Stephen Heppell’s keynote at the OLA superconference.
Heppell asked a group of students what a literate teacher should be able to do, and they agreed that a teacher should be able to:
- upload to YouTube
- edit a Wikipedia article
- choose a safe online payments site
- subscribe to a podcast and un subscribe
- turn on and off predictive text
- manage a groups Flickr photos (and spell Flickr!)
- look after a community in Facebook
As someone working with pre-service teachers, I would like to ask them the same question and then compare the responses. How many of them see these as new teacher literacies? And are we developing these literacies in any way in pre-service teacher education or in professional development in most schools.
And are these the literacies that we want our teachers to have? What else should be on that list. Maybe we need to start asking this question to a few more groups of people and then talking about this when we are developing a teacher education program.
And for those of you who don’t text message – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_text
