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The NYT talks about the future of reading and of learning to use information.
<blockquote>It was the “aha!” moment that Stephanie Rosalia was hoping for.
A group of fifth graders huddled around laptop computers in the school library overseen by Ms. Rosalia and scanned allaboutexplorers.com, a Web site that, unbeknownst to the children, was intentionally peppered with false facts.
Ms. Rosalia, the school librarian at Public School 225, a combined elementary and middle school in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, urged caution. “Don’t answer your questions with the first piece of information that you find,” she warned.
Most of the students ignored her, as she knew they would. But Nozimakon Omonullaeva, 11, noticed something odd on a page about Christopher Columbus.
“It says the Indians enjoyed the cellphones and computers brought by
Columbus!” Nozimakon exclaimed, pointing at the screen. “That’s wrong.”
</blockquote>I feel old when I remember learning to use the card catalog in grade school, on the assumption that we’d all need it in college.
Via <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/16/books/16libr.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&em”>The Future of Reading – In Web Age, Library Job Gets Update – Series – NYTimes.com</a>.
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