I have to say that was very disappointed to find advertising stuck in my student’s blog this morning. It was the first time that I had seen this although there has been quite a discussion about it on LM_NET, and evidently in many blogs as well.
To see those links embedded in the student’s posting was [...]
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A research project by Alison J. Head and Michael B. Eisenberg was published recently entitled, Finding Context: What Today’s College Students Say about Conducting Research in the Digital Age http://projectinfolit.org/pdfs/PIL_ProgressReport_2_2009.pdf has some interesting things to say about how college students go about their research. It might have equally interesting things to say to high school [...]
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“This is what I have to work with, these are my resources, and this is what I need for a final product. How can I make this work.”
“Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech”
http://www.schooltube.com/video/21838/Learning-to-Change-Changing-to-Learn–Kids-Tech
I love this video. It bespeaks the technology revolution that some of our students are involved in and demonstrates the [...]
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Steven Cohen on his blog Library Stuff points to a posting made by Owen Strachan’s blog posting “Where do Libraries Go to Die?” which has the following quotation:
I feel for librarians. This is a tough age. Trained to share a passion for one of the sweetest specimens of common grace, books, today many librarians find [...]
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Sara Kelley Johns in her blog, From the Inside Out has posted a discussion and a link to a great New York Times article on school librarians, “In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update.”
It is a terrific article with pictures and a video. Yee-hah! We need these rays of light amid so much discouraging news [...]
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