tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495443140103048898.post1193289599039146344..comments2023-09-10T05:18:46.345-04:00Comments on The YA Librarian: A Letter In Support of Student AchievementMaureen Brunnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14735823256026756696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495443140103048898.post-58464077963817484142010-04-05T13:13:26.527-04:002010-04-05T13:13:26.527-04:00Wow, nominated for a blog award, but my email addr...Wow, nominated for a blog award, but my email address isn't easy to find? I better clean this thing up before anyone else notices! Thanks for the inspiration to write more, and more often (... wondering how the judging panel feels about typos...).<br /><br />GOOOO BUTLER DAWGS!!!!Maureen Brunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053050498268338788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495443140103048898.post-48119962649096536322010-04-05T11:57:57.337-04:002010-04-05T11:57:57.337-04:00Congratulations. Your blog has been nominated for ...Congratulations. Your blog has been nominated for our Library Blog Awards. In fact, your blog was suggested more than once. We're in the process of assembling information about all those nominated and will be sending a short questionnaire, including the categories of awards and the judges involved. Would you please send me your email address so that I can send you the questionnaire? If your email is on your blog, I couldn't locate it.<br /><br />Thanks in advance,<br />Peter W Tobey<br />ptobey@salempress.comPeter Tobeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09054573427429182901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4495443140103048898.post-28950566793331522592010-02-22T22:15:53.736-05:002010-02-22T22:15:53.736-05:00As a student, I spent 23 years in school. I am now...As a student, I spent 23 years in school. I am now a parent of three teens, all good students. I have scaled the heights of several professions because of my ability to research effectively. And now I have founded a company, Dulcinea Media, whose mission is to help librarians and teachers teach students the effective use of the Internet. If you think students today know how to find information on the Internet, evaluate it and put it to use, then clearly you have not spent a lot of time thinking through the issue. And if you think that overburdened teachers alone can provide the instruction students need to learn to use the Internet effectively, then clearly you have not spent a lot of time asking individual teachers where this is the case. In the libraries of old, mastering the Dewey Decimal system was enough to get you started on your research. But there is no card catalogue 2.0. In order to use the Internet as a library, you need 21st-century research skills: the ability to pick out reliable sources from an overwhelming heap of misinformation, to find relevant material amid an infinite array of options, and to navigate the shifting ethics of creative commons and intellectual property rights. As good as kids may be on Facebook, they are not born with a digital M.L.S. These skills are learned, not instinctive, and the only way for students to learn them is for someone else to guide and teach them. Students will create and consume online content, and even social media will find a way into their research. Should a student trust a blog as a source in a paper? If not, then how about a blog on The New York Times website? A blog run by an online magazine? Can they use collaborative technology, like wikis? Even teachers need help answering these questions. There are no official guidelines to using the Web, and even if there were, they would change by the minute. As the information landscape becomes more and more complex, why would we abandon our professional guides to it?Mark Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01531286398121141192noreply@blogger.com