Hi All,
Carol Simpson's editorial is very timely, urgent even, and thought provoking. Her
final sentences especially ring true:
"This is an invaluable opportunity for the profession. If we don’t snatch this
chance, the technology folks will, and we will have sealed the fate of librarians
as dinosaurs who refused to move with the times."
Unfortunately as Carol asserts, the above is already happening. Is anyone familiar
with the work of Robert Marzano of Mid-continent Research for Education and
Learning (McREL)? He is a scholar and has been advocating for a common set of
national K-12 standards for some time now. It's telling; their web site includes
standards for everything, including life skills, BUT information literacy. I plan
to write the board members and promote/request they add IP2. Think of how much more
powerful a statement we'll make if we all make an effort to request that info
literacy be included as a category? The site is:
http://www.mcrel.org/compendium/browse.asp
Laura
Laura Brooks
Library Media Teacher
Amerman Elementary School
Northville, MI
brooksla@northville.k12.mi.us
"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not."
-The Lorax, Dr. Seuss
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