Posted by Penny Burger on
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The biggest challenge for me will be finding the classroom time to train my students to use the resources. This means I will need to be very selective in what I choose for them to use. It's a myth that just because students can navigate about in the apps they are familiar with that they also have decent information literacy skills - they do not. Our school district does not have a standardized plan for disseminating and scaffolding the basics of infolit.

Now that I have seen the outstanding resources available for the AEA Online, it has me thinking that this should be the place we start training our students in a methodical, shared way. Too often, I am left teaching students about new digital resources or infolit processes at the expense of my social studies curriculum. If we had a way of sharing the burden across content areas and grades, it would be advantageous not only to the teachers, but especially to the students.

The first way I will meet the challenge is to work more closely with our media specialist in training my students. I think our 6th grade team has the 6th graders do this already, but we seem to lose the momentum in 7th and 8th grades.  I also think I need to press the issue with our social studies team of teachers, that we need to all be on the same page when it comes to infolit procedures. I'll be curious to find out when I meet with them soon, how much they use the AEA Online Resources. It's a topic I will definitely address.