Read the results of the annual School Library Journal’s Technology Survey here…
Category Archives: Digital Literacy
Student Survey Results
School Library Journal reports on a recent survey of 3 000 high school students. Student were asked about their use of Wikipedia, as well as their thoughts on plagiarism and libraries. The results are most interesting.
No Child Left Untableted
Feature article from The New York Times…
Sally Hurd Smith, a veteran teacher, held up her brand-new tablet computer and shook it as she said, “I don’t want this thing to take over my classroom.” It was late June, a month before the first day of school. In a sixth-grade classroom in Greensboro, N.C., a dozen middle-school social-studies teachers were getting their second of three days of training on tablets that had been presented to them as a transformative educational tool. Every student and teacher in 18 of Guilford County’s 24 middle schools would receive one, 15,450 in all, to be used for class work, homework, educational games — just about everything, eventually.
Digital Citizenship Poster
(Screenshot from Edmodo)
Available from Edmodo and free to download to print and post, or to put up on a blog or a webpage. Available in multiple languages. Please give credit to Edmodo when using, or if you modify it for your own use.
Evaluating Websites
(Screenshot from RADCAB website)
As part of our Library Instruction programme at ESA we work with students on evaluating the quality of information available on the web. We teach something called the CARRDSS Approach, but there are many other systems (and acronyms) out there.
One really neat little one that I have recently come across is the RADCAB acronym. The creation of a school library Media Specialist, RADCAB comes with a great little website. Bookmark this site for easy reference.