[LM_NET] We have no business reading to students (!) (?)

[Liz Frame <fourefs@SBCGLOBAL.NET>]

  Thank you, Deborah, for reminding me of this comment:
   
   
  "On a side note, I remember someone posting a comment "We have no business
reading to students." The comment was meant not so much against reading as
that we should be focusing on technology skills instead. In thinking about
this, it seems to me that as librarians it wasn't/isn't our ability to read
stories to students but our knowledge of WHAT to read to students and how to
encourage students to go beyond what we read to them. Is the same true of
the technology? If our job is to "teach" technology, why should that be a
librarian as opposed to a technology teacher?"

  LMNETTERS,
   
  Perhaps in the particular district that the original commentor works, this idea 
of teaching technology is what s/he has been hired to do, or rather, has seen this 
need go unanswered by others and has taken this mantle upon herself. I have been 
blessed with a computer teacher and an IT person assigned to our elementary school. 
I have not seen the need to also "instruct" in technology. In fact, I have 
discovered that although my students receive a guaranteed computer instruction time 
each week, they do not receive a guaranteed read-aloud time.
   
  I could wax eloquent about the value of reading aloud to all children, and yet on 
LM_NET I haven't, because I perceived that this value is shared universally by all 
school librarians. It appears that I am amiss in this assessment. I may then want 
to share strategies with those of the non-read-aloud-ers.
   
  SO, if you do not read aloud to your students, and it's a deliberate, conscious 
choice based on what's best for your students, would you share with me your 
reasons? I need another point of view on this matter.
   
  Blessings,
   


  Liz Frame, Librarian

  San Antonio Christian Elementary School
  San Antonio, TX 
  fourefs@sbcglobal.net
     


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