Well, I'd say that first of all, school should be striving to ensure that students are learning what they need to learn, irrespective of the school's use of technology. As with any other curriculum or initiative or whatever in a school, teachers must keep up-to-date with what's current, and the school must provide plenty of opportunity for the faculty to do so.
The first step is to define what it is that students need to learn regarding Information Literacy; a curriculum and scope and sequence must be in place, and regular assessment activities of all kinds must take place.
As I said with my previous blog post, if a school is going to do a good job with this, it must be a consistent, school wide effort with direct supervision and expectations.
The Horizon Report: Tales of a Future Past
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I am very interested in what ways you think it'd be successful for leadership to use direct supervision to ensure this happens. Is this one of those "doesn't-need-buy-in" issues, that an administrator can simply say must be done?
ReplyDeleteOr to truly ensure an embedded model, is it more about convincing teachers that this is important so that they choose to do it (with articulated curriculum) rather than feel forced into it.
Somewhere in between? I don't have the answer...just wondering myself about this for my future.