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Category Archives: ETL 401
Information Literacy is more than a set of skills
Defining information literacy is a mercurial task; exactly what information literacy is, who is information literate and how we guide and teach future generations to be information literate is debatable. One unifying theme however, is that information literacy seems to … Continue reading
Information literacy … so far
Information Literacy There seems to be many and varied constructs of what information literacy seems to be – the definitions exclude and include many different areas and come under different titles – transliteracy, digital literacy, information fluency, 21 century fluency, … Continue reading
Constructivist learning and the Australian curriculum
Constructivist learning and the Australian curriculum In the “information renaissance” (O’Connell, J. 2013) it is no surprise that the way we teach is altering. Change is not isolated to the modus operandi of the classroom teacher but effects the … Continue reading
Do school libraries improve student achievement?
Mountain climbing metaphor – ok, have continued to climb, with copious amounts of tea, wooly socks donned and at more bleak moments a hot water bottle for company (love them, I really do). I am sure Sir Edmund Hilary had … Continue reading
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21st Century Education
What is it that we do again?
Are school librarians and endangered species.
Well isn’t that a loaded question… After watching the five experts (so eloquent and so succinct in their comments) I think the main take home message is that despite the pressures of budgets, cuts and ignorance teacher librarians are not … Continue reading
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Compare and contrast the views of Herring, Valenza, Purcell and Lamb!
How should TL’s prioritise the roles they play in the school? After reading all four viewpoints about the role of the TL it is interesting to see how each stance differs on the periphery but the core beliefs are … Continue reading
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The Role of the Teacher Librarian with regard to the convergence of literacies in the 21st century.
Over eons the library has been used as a ‘storehouse’ and a “repository for all key information” (Frey,T. 2007) and librarians have been seen within this context as the “information specialists” (Purcell, M. 2010 p. 33) and the primary “gatekeeper[s]” … Continue reading
Scaling the steep slope: glasses on, note pad and yes, tea…
The deadline for assessment item one is looming and the reading has gone well. I have so much information in my brain that I swear if I turn my head too fast to either the right or the left there … Continue reading
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Transliteracy
Transliteracy A really terrific resource that has the definitions and incredibly easy slide presentations to explain the concept of transliteracy. A boon for the student searching out the new directions, responsibilities and foci for the 21st Century Teacher Librarian.
Kate Blaich 