Friday, July 20, 2007

Go to School 2

When our technology teacher comes back from vacation I will be contacting her about School 2.0, and the Karl Fisch video. She is not only receptive to new ideas, but is on our district’s technology oversight committee. I am thinking that as I work toward a cert. as a technology teacher, I should sit in on some of their meetings. The Fisch viedeo, School 2.0, for 21st century and our readings in Siemans seem to dovetail nicely. As I looked over School 2.0 and some of your comments, I thought about how many libraries haven’t changed much, just like many classrooms. Libraries/media centers should be a hub for just that- media. Paper books are just one important component to that mix. The only major media exposure students receive from the library is learning how to search, mainly using the electronic card catalog. I teach at the elementary level. Do you think that libraries at higher levels have changed more to incorporate new areas of technology? We still seem to be compartmentalized in many ways. Art happens in art class. Technology happens in the lab. Books happen in the library. There have been changes. The computer lab can come in to the classroom. In our school’s model, the technology teacher is a collaborative partner with the teacher. Together we work on projects. It is very far from a “drop off” special. It is funny how slow schools, and teachers, can be in accepting new ideas. Siemans talks about how we printed hard copies of our first emails, and how movies/videos were first thought to be inferior, and now they are an art form. Politics are certainly accepting and utilizing blogs and wikis readily. Richardson makes this point which was recently reinforced by a NPR story on the same topic. Apparently the democratic candidates are headed in this direction to a greater degree than republicans. What a way to end!

2 comments:

mrichme said...

The power of the internet gives you the ability to share Karl's video through email. You can email the link of the site off of YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

If you have the time it is always good for different perspectives when technology committees get together.

If you had a dictionary that has the phrase "resistance to change" you probably would find a picture of a teacher.

Keep the faith change is occurring.

Susan said...

Change is slow and it may take the new generation of library students to drive some of the change. It also takes money. I agree libraries are about more than books. I think they always were information centers but you are correct, we need to change the way they teach students information literacy. Throw out the old concept of bibliographic instruction. The library class should never be a drop off in order for the teacher to do planning. The teacher is the subject matter expert and needs to be involved for the best outcome.