Week 11: “Deep” Reflection
Interesting lesson, I found I was surfing about how to surf! Sadly, I did not find this week that practical for elementary school students. I wish they had “google kids” and that you could search a key word and there was an engine to do the weeding!! Other 467 students- did you find this useful as an elementary librarian?
In the online exploratory links I found the following comment meaningful about becoming a teacher librarian, building information literacy skills and connecting with reference resources in relation to this lesson. The comment was “more importantly is the teacher-librarian's mastery of search strategies that he/she can help students build effective search strategies.”
In the big picture we are supporting student learning so even though it may feel frustrating to us weeding through the maze of sites, imagine how frustrating it would be for a child. I can see how Wikkis are great, a collection of links students can use. It saves everyone time.
I discovered an Inactive link http://www.wkdev.com/deep/deep1.html on one of the course links- a bit frustrating to say the least. It looks the links were last accessed in 2009?
The following quote in grey literature reminded me of how traditional research vs action research. Both very useful but both are very different.
Grey lit. seems to be the “process work” not polished, similar to action research. With action research you “do” and “reflect” and “redo”; grey literature seems to be the process work of something- not the end product.
I wonder what the difference in reliability is between grey literature and wikkipedia?
Thoughts?
I've tried to remove inactive links as I encounter them, but it's not always obvious until too late. It's part of the education pendulum, too - the flavor of the moment.
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