Education World – Melissa Pelletier
“The school library, and the librarians that work within them, are a wonderful, and sometimes overlooked resource for educational technology support, providing invaluable help and knowledge for teachers and students. The traditional domain of a librarian—information literacy—is more closely linked to educational technology than we might imagine. The goal of information literacy is access to the right learning resources, which includes a variety of technologies; in fact, such technologies as microfilm were one of the first pieces of technology people had access to in their local library. When computers were first put in schools, the school library was often the first place they would go, and the librarian would help teach students and teachers how to actually use them. Today, libraries continue to serve as points for the public’s first exposure to new technologies.” (more)