Digital times are here to stay, but the heart of learning is still a quest by students and teachers together. Teachers educate or lead forth their students - from the literal to the critical, the creative and even spiritual.
Digital times have arrived with options beyond our imaginations of even a year ago. Time and geographic boundaries have dissolved in the virtual connected world, but along with this liberation has come a unrelenting 24-hour day and heavy global responsibilities. Information once limited to the number of textbooks in the bookroom and the square-footage of library shelves, is now of dizzying proportions, and accompanying it are heightened expectations and brain-numbing pressure for teachers and their students. Few teachers have time to access brilliant online options, much less learn how to effectively use them during the school day.
Nonetheless, digital times are here to stay. Unless we demystify this chimera and integrate it sensibly into a normal school day, we will be intimidated by the so-called gurus, who always have something to sell us, whether their ideas or machines. Information literacy is not a frill, but an intelligent guide to digital times.
ps - the image above is a typewriter with the word "www." spelled out. (source: http://clipart.com/)
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