A sad one (on many levels) from eWeek:
“If her students couldn’t access the likes of Google or Yahoo, it would mean that they would face an informational divide. Why? The Internet serves as the school’s library. “We have to use the Internet a great deal because we don’t have a functioning school library at my school,” Johnson said.
“Should access become too much of a financial stretch for the district, her students couldn’t research projects, write papers, complete geography assignments or find information on countries around the globe.”
BS
Johnson is lazy. I went to Catholic school and sometimes they didn’t have the best libraries, but amazingly I was able to complete all my work without the Internet. I even made it through my first undergraduate degree without the Internet.
So where ever it says could not in the article substitute too lazy to. She is too lazy to teach her students how to use a reference book. She is too lazy to teach her students basic information literacy skills. The students are too lazy to get off their duffs and use one of those really heavy things with all the pages to find answers.
Holy crap if we don’t teach children the rudiments of finding information without using a keyboard they are going to be up the creek without a paddle when the power is out and they need to use the phone book to find the number for the electric company (or a pizza place).
The Internet is not the solution to this teacher’s problems, it is just an easy work around.
People like that annoy me.
Re:BS
Amen!
Re:BS
Um, she claimed they needed the Internet to do research because they did not have a school library. Did she ever hear about something called a public library?? I would bet there is a public library somewhere in the area. Then again that would require traveling and having to go through those things called books.