Intro to Information Literacy CBEA

Session 2

Why is it important in education that we always "begin with the end in mind?"

posted by skoelker @ 7:01 PM 7 comments

Blog Comments Digest from Session 1

Pithy snippets from last week worth a bit of discussion:

* So now that we've established that as the medium we're all swimming in, whether we know it or not, I think about my 3rd-5th graders reading novels and ideally thinking about them, and wonder if I'm trying to give them waterwings when what they really need is a jetski. And yet I still think what I do is important, because they're learning to get inside other people's heads through reading literature, and isn't that part of being human?

* ...has my own technology fear kept me from becoming a better teacher? Which leads me to my last comment, how much do I need to know to be more effective in my classroom?

* This evening has been another reason to communicate on the kids level, to understand "what they know" with the technology.

* I don't think I teach any where near the way I did ten years ago, however.

* It is heartening to be reminded that it's not as important to know the technology as it is to know how to teach the thinking skills necessary to use the technology and to sift through all of the information that is exploding around us.

posted by skoelker @ 8:59 PM 10 comments

October 19, 2006

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posted by skoelker @ 3:03 PM 12 comments

Welcome!

Welcome to blogging in the Information Literacy class. This blog is a place for all of us to post some thoughts and reactions while we learn about one of the most important new sources of information available online. While blogs are most often public journals with a single author, ours will demonstrate how a blog might be used with a group of learners to share information.

To keep this one organized for the entire class, I'll be posting a prompt before each session to which you will reply or "comment." It will be interesting to see how each of our "voices" comes out here even though we will be able to talk to one another daily.

posted by skoelker @ 8:30 PM 2 comments