The article, It's Your Duty to Keep Up With Technology, by Shannon Gilchrist, reviews the way librarians are reinventing the roles they play in educational environments through several components which include lesson plans that invite students to use the library space and resources in different ways and incorporate a partnership between the teacher and the librarian.
One point stressed in this article is the personal accountability librarians take on to learn and teach new technologies. The ability to navigate tech-based resources and use different hardware is now implied. Librarians may not do perform their job to their best of their ability without understanding tech devices and how these tools facilitate learning based processes.
The challenge that is discussed in the article points out the decline of school librarians during a time of economical hardship. Not only in this article, but in others I've screened, I've noticed a trend in the reduction of school librarians in educational institutions. With more technology flooding the classroom and less media specialists available to students it appears to be a recipe for failure. Now that the economy is beginning to stabilize, I hope to see a shift towards supporting your young K-12 students.
This is a review of the article:
It’s your duty to keep up with technology, librarians told.
By
Shannon Gilchrist
The Columbus Dispatch
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Monday November 9, 2015 5:55 AM
Found here: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2015/11/09/its-your-duty-to-keep-up-with-technology-librarians-told.html
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