Douglas A. Johnson

School Libraries Head for the Edge (eBook, PDF)

Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This compilation of media and technology guru Doug Johnson's Library Media Connection columns offers his unique perspective on the role of the library media specialist in today's world.

School Libraries Head for the Edge: Rants, Recommendations, and Reflections collects Doug Johnson's wildly popular "Head for the Edge" column for Library Media Connection. In one convenient volume, it brings together the best of Johnson's writing-topical, timely, technical, and theoretical-on the world of school media and the most effective ways libraries can use technology to serve teachers and students.

School Libraries Head for the Edge ranges across the breadth of its critically important subject, with chapters on libraries and education in transition, professional skills and development, building student research and technology skills, technology in the libraries and in education, and bringing an ethical, values-based sensibility to the use of media in school libraries. Throughout, Johnson tells it like it is, with cutting-edge coverage of the latest trends in library media and technology and incisive commentary on everything from the ramifications of Web 2.0 to what's new for tomorrow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781586834081
• Artikelnr.: 38457021

Autorenporträt

Doug Johnson is director of Media and Technology at I.S.D. 77 Mankato Public Schools in Minnesota.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 800 Words Chapter 1: On Libraries and Education in Transition
Making Change Work for You The Sound of the Other Shoe Dropping New
Resources, New Selection Skills The 21st-Century Teacher What Happened to
the Good Old Days of Education? The "M" Word Exposing Shameful Little
Secrets Schools Are More than the Sum of Their Scores The Importance of
Bricks How to Destroy Any School Library Program The Other Shoe Redux
Reflection Chapter 2: On Professional Skills and Dispositions Praise for
Media Specialists Who. How We Spend Our Days Librarians Are from Venus;
Technologists Are from Mars Intelligence Deficit Syndrome Getting the Job
You Deserve Join Us Weed! Librarianship as a Subversive Profession A Secret
Weapon-Niceness Names Can Never Hurt Me HPLUKs A Trick Question Perceptions
Constructive Criticism Reflection Chapter 3: On Reading, Research, and
Technology Skills Embracing Ambiguity Copy, Paste, Plagiarize The Changing
Face of School Research A Work in Progress Getting What You Ask For
Creating Fat Kids Who Don't Like to Read Everyday Problem Solving Once Upon
a Time Foiling the Language Police The Other Side of Plagiarism Owning Our
Curriculum Caution with Collaboration The Decline of Reading Evaluating
Collectively Created Information Nickel and Dimed What Gets Tested Gets
Taught Building Capacity for Empathy Reflection Chapter 4: On Technology in
Libraries The Future of Books The Future of Books Revisited Old Folks and
Technology Technology Dinosaurs Letter from the Flat World Library
Corporation Librarians 2.0 My Next Library Catalog Needs. Reflection
Chapter 5: On Technology in Education WIIFM? A Cautionary Column Examining
the Enchantment of Technology The School of Hard Knocks Faith-Based
Computing Did You Hear the One About.? Reflection Chapter 6: On Managing
Good Six Ways to Beat the Study Hall Syndrome Giving and Taking Advisory
Advice No Principal Left Behind Top 10 Things Baby Teachers Should Know
about School Libraries A Valentine Whose Voices Are Most Powerful? Common
Sense Economy The Power of Parents Starting Off on the Right Foot
Reflection Chapter 7: On Determining Our Values Mischief and Mayhem
Creating High Temptation Environments Freedom and Filters So Tell Us a
Little about Yourself The Need for Community Don't Defend That Book A
Father-Son Chat From Cop to Counselor on Copyright Reflection Afterword:
Why I Write for Publication (and You Should Too) Works Cited