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From: Faith Williams <faithmw>
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:27:32 -0800 (PST)
I came to being a children's librarian from teaching freshman English and before that from writing my own dissertation. I agree wholeheartedly with Monica's goal; to make students feel that delving into history is amazingly cool. After some years of teaching, I began to feel that readers were an endangered species, and the most precious one to me.
What I haven't seen mentioned yet in this discussion is the dimension both good and bad added to all of this by the WWW. It has just the same problem as paper information (or even gossip); How do you know that it's true? And that question teachers and librarians do need to talk about, because there is a wide variety of material that students have easy access to.
Notes which discuss this problem for original sources or other historical works are very helpful for teachers and parents who want to talk about historical error and truth and interpretation. An occasional child will read them too. A number of the books we're talking about here are suitable for high school, or college freshman even. And they allow for useful connections with the materials children are already reading on the web.
Faith Williams
====Faith Williams, children?s librarian DCPLibrary 698374 http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/fmwill H. 202 36289
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Received on Fri 03 Jan 2003 09:27:32 AM CST
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 07:27:32 -0800 (PST)
I came to being a children's librarian from teaching freshman English and before that from writing my own dissertation. I agree wholeheartedly with Monica's goal; to make students feel that delving into history is amazingly cool. After some years of teaching, I began to feel that readers were an endangered species, and the most precious one to me.
What I haven't seen mentioned yet in this discussion is the dimension both good and bad added to all of this by the WWW. It has just the same problem as paper information (or even gossip); How do you know that it's true? And that question teachers and librarians do need to talk about, because there is a wide variety of material that students have easy access to.
Notes which discuss this problem for original sources or other historical works are very helpful for teachers and parents who want to talk about historical error and truth and interpretation. An occasional child will read them too. A number of the books we're talking about here are suitable for high school, or college freshman even. And they allow for useful connections with the materials children are already reading on the web.
Faith Williams
====Faith Williams, children?s librarian DCPLibrary 698374 http://www.mybookmarks.com/public/fmwill H. 202 36289
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