Schools and students ready…parents not so much March 13, 2007
Posted by charris in : Community , add a commentThe NY Times is covering the complaints from some parents in a Long Island school district that are worried about the school using real-world resources instead of just textbooks.
“‘They can teach them how to evaluate what’s good and reliable information,’ Ms. Augusta [, Director of the Inter-County Teacher Center] said. ‘Students can learn to problem-solve and form opinions for themselves, and sometimes you don’t get that from a textbook’” [NY Times]
Very exciting vision…one problem. With all of the discussion about utilizing a rich variety of physical and electronic resources to support learning, libraries seem to be quite absent from the article. When schools realize the power of moving beyond textbooks, libraries are in an excellent position to help teachers (and parents!) access resources to support learning.