“When you try to use a computer in a school, it’s shocking what is blocked,” saidMichelle Luhtala, head librarian at New Caanan High School in Connecticut during an edWeb webinar. “That is not 21st century learning.” Luhtala doesn’t believe schools can make good on their promise to prepare kids for the world that awaits them outside school walls if they don’t first prepare them to use the tools to operate online in safe ways. She acknowledges that letting students direct their own learning in virtual spaces can be scary and that it takes a lot of trust.
P.S. Congrats Michelle
Lynn A. Rappaport, MLS
School Librarian
John C. Clark School
Hartford, CT