[CASL-L] Reading online vs. reading on paper vis a vis the students we see in the library

[Sandi Harss]

Great strategies which I also use with our 8th-graders as a way to wean
them and make them ready for the transition to high school...

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 4:15 PM, KALUZYNSKI SARA <
KALUZYNSKIS at stratfordk12.org> wrote:

>  I've been weaning students off of printing (probably because I hate to
> see waste) in my high school, and it's been very effective.
>
>  Techniques include:
> -Modeling copying and pasting relevant selections as direct quotes in
> NoodleTools notecards. Some teachers have students add a paraphrase--some
> don't.
> -Showing them how they can download or email database articles to
> themselves.
> -Making statements like, "I know you used to print the entire article and
> highlight every sentence when you were in middle school and elementary..."
>  We all chuckle, and they seem to get the hint. They know I used to teach
> MS--and how true it is!  LOL.
>
>  Curious how this will translate come online testing.
> Time for me to re-visit Donald Leu's New Literacies work at UCONN.
>
>  Younger grades is a very different story!!
>
> Sara
>
> Sent from Sara K's beloved classic iPhone 4S.
>
> On Mar 8, 2013, at 2:03 PM, "IRENE KWIDZINSKI" <kwidz at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
>   Interesting point?!
>
> ----- Forwarded Message ----
> *From:* Sarles Patricia (18K500) <PSarles at schools.nyc.gov>
> *To:* "aaslforum at ala.org" <aaslforum at ala.org>
> *Sent:* Fri, March 8, 2013 1:40:38 PM
> *Subject:* [aaslforum] Reading online vs. reading on paper vis a vis the
> students we see in the library
>
>
> My experience has been that my students skip step 4 (use of information)
> in the Big Six Skills when they immediately print out what they find online
> without even reading it first to see if it is truly relevant. I see this
> also when I work one-on-one with my students. They ask ME what the article
> is about and I have to break the news to them that they will actually have
> to read it to find out for themselves what the article is about.
>
> The new Common Core assessments in 46 states and the District of Columbia
> will all be computer-based. According to a memo from the NY State Education
> Department to all principals and superintendents, “The transition to
> computer-based testing will place New York at the forefront of innovative,
> 21st -century assessment design and delivery. For students, the benefits
> include using technology to better demonstrate what they know and are able
> to do” (
> http://www.p12.nysed.gov/nonpub/documents/transition_strategy_to_computer_based_testing.pdf
> ).
>
> This is my concern about Computer Based Testing: If you look at Smarter
> Balanced’s (one of the testing consortia designing the new CC assesments)
> sample test items, for example at:
> http://sampleitems.smarterbalanced.org/itempreview/sbac/ELA.htm, you will
> see that students will have to read a longish 9-paragraph text and then
> answer questions based on the text. (The sample for Grade 3 is pretty
> longish as well). I’m not sure our students have the stamina to read that
> much text online because this is not what I see in the library. Students
> nearly always prefer to print out online text to read later.
>
> Do you see the same thing in your library and do you think your students
> will sit through and read so much text online? The test for High Schoolers
> for example will be 140 minutes long. Will students truly benefit from
> Computer Based Testing and be able to “better demonstrate what they know
> and are able to do?” for if this is the case, we need to disable printing
> in the library to force students to take notes on what they read on the
> screen NOW so that they are prepared to do this in 2014-2015.
>
> Does anybody else see this as a potential issue?
>
>
> ____________________________________________
> Patricia Sarles, MA, MLS
> Librarian
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>
> The new power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the
> hands of the many. - John Naisbitt, Megatrends
>
> The Internet may be the world's greatest library, but let's face it - all
> the books are scattered on the floor.  - D.C. Denison, Boston Globe
>
> Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire
> hydrant. - Mitchell Kapor
>
> To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the
> chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh
> evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and
> the facts from the fiction ... The function of education, therefore, is to
> teach one to think intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther
> King, Jr. The Purpose of Education
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*Sandi*


Sandi Harss, MS, MLS
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