SIG Information & Communication Technologies

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Comment by Janek J. Korczynski on October 29, 2009 at 6:50am

Everything is changing rapidly.
First, computers were in the automation of library books.

Next Step Computer: Internet as a source of information in the library. = Librarian media specialist.

Now, computers are now commonplace. There is also a web 2.0 technology. Students many hours on the Internet. (too many hours!)
In this new world must be another form of education.
Student has equal access to all information. The class must teach him how to teach yourself to lifelong learning and work in a team of colleagues.
Library can be supportive of individual development.
There is work with a single student. Education is the main objective of the school.

I think
that the new role of the school library is a laboratory self-creation of a single student. The class is realized in the group.
Library may be the initiator and coordinator of projects that support the students a self-creation.
It is very important that students have used new technologies for creativity and development, not just for fun and spending time stupid. (many of them now do so.

I know that my ideas, it goes further than today and tomorrow.
But you can not escape from reality. in past years has changed rapidly in the world, other young people ... Education, schools and parents can not remain are the old world to the world of our children do not become as stupid as the time presence on the Internet ...
Education has to change, and then also the role of the school library will then be different ...
The library can try to do it right now ..

Comment by Camilla Elliott on October 29, 2009 at 5:00am

Hello Sabine, Many school libraries are being affected by the 1:1 computing being adopted in many schools where the computers are now distributed out in the classrooms. This is where our role is changing. We must be over the whole school not just in the library. This is achieved through a virtual presence with learning resources accessible via a library page as well as us physically out there.

If teachers have access to computers in the classroom for students they will teach them there and not take them to the library. That's understandable. I believe that we must have computers in the library just as we have them in other parts of the school. Not to have them is to take a library service back to the 1960s. We have so many different models for the supply of computer resources in school happening at the moment there is no one solution. The major issue is -- what are teacher librarians doing with those computer? Anything that is being well used for a positive learning outcome will not be removed.

Comment by Sabine Wolf on October 28, 2009 at 5:44pm

Hello everyone,

at the moment I'm preparing a workshop for people who are working in a school libray. What wonders me a little bit is the fact that here in Germany many of them think that a school library needs no computers and OPACs...
What are your experiences?

Comment by Lesley Farmer on October 28, 2009 at 10:25am

If you're doing good work, please do share it! And if you have ideas for this SIG to do, also share that. Thanks
Lesley

Comment by Vicki Laity on October 28, 2009 at 9:32am

Hello everyone
I am pleased to be part of this group. Hopefully we can get some discussions going.
I am from Queensland Australia

Comment by Sabine Wolf on August 11, 2009 at 7:23pm

Hi everyone there!
Since yesterday I'm a member of IASL. Today I saw this group and I like to be a member of it.
About me: I'm a librarian from Germany who is interested in information technologies and their use in (school) libraries.
So I'm happy to share my experiences about used technology with you.

Comment by Janek J. Korczynski on February 10, 2009 at 6:50pm

I am a librarian and a programmer in Poland (Gdansk). I teach a programming network. Now I work on the development of Joomla CMS to adapt it for working to create a network platform for education and for school libraries. I'm happy, I will share the results of our work and seek the cooperation of partners interested in the subject.