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Information literacy, now
* I know that whenever a moment comes up where a class needs
information (for a verbal or a written test or any other project),
one or two of the students of that class will come to me and
ask me for relevant, trustworthy information. But how do I
reach the rest ? One way is: the satisfied customers will
tell their colleagues to go to Roeland for real good information.
* The
philosopher Karl Popper states that we only really learn from
the mistakes we make. That means that a student who is searching
information on his own will always think he finds the right
information because there is no one to tell him otherwise.
* The teacher
is in most cases capable to judge if the student has used
(or better still: is using) the right information. So we need
to give those teachers who need it, lessons in Information
Literacy. I did that recently, it was badly needed.
It's another way of reaching their groups of students.
* The
core business of a school is the growth of knowledge inside
the student's head: the primary process. In order for the
knowledge to grow, the student needs the right information
(that he, in by far most cases, obtains from his teacher).
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Information Literacy, new developments
* In our school it is already a fact that there is a beamer
in every classroom, so the library is no longer the only place
where information is coming in and..
what about mobile internet that many students have in their
pocket...
* And, don't forget: Web.03
(the semantic web) is
on its way. In a couple of years websites will have tags with
relevant codes, this will enable people to search information
far more successfully than now.
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librarians:
* A good librarian is a librarian who can answer 95 % of the
questions, posed by students in her library.
* Since a teacher
now has the tools to follow the students's actions and thus
is able to guide his enquiries and since it will be easier
in the near future to find relevant information, the librarian's
task is changing...
* For ages librarians have been handling books: finding out
systems to put them on shelves in such a way that people can
find them. Why don't we do that with the new media as well
by editing the website or the Electronic Learning Environment
of the school we work in ?
(foto right, our library and the
pc I use for the maintenance of our website. www.barlaeus.nl
)
* I'm convinced that the new media not only change our profession
profoundly, they make it more beautiful and exciting............
but
it's hard work keeping up with them !
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And ... the hitchhiker
One day after visiting a congress about ICT.
I found out that I'd lost my ticket and had no more money,
so I couldn't go home by train.
I walked down the road and I started hitchhiking.
A car stopped,
the driver was a teacher who'd also visited that congress.
We started talking about his and my work
and found out many things I could do for him
and (mostly) for his students.
But......I already told you .
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