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"The Basis of their Reading Experience": Progress on Reading to Learn in Hong Kong Primary Schools
No full textA key government education policy in Hong Kong is Reading to Learn, introduced in 2000. Cultivating an independent reading habit is identified as one of the “Seven Learning Goals” to be achieved by 2014. This paper reports the results of a small-scale pilot study designed to inform a more comprehensive future survey implemented jointly by the Education and Manpower Bureau and the Hong Kong Teacher Librarians Association to measure the effectiveness of Reading to Learn
From Early Literacy to Information Literacy
No full text“Language is at the heart of the process of becoming literate. Through participation in these interactions, individual students construct a sense of self as readers, writers, and thinkers within the culture of each particular classroom. These constructions are salient to students\u27 development of motivation for literacy learning.” (Johnston, 1992). Early literacy is the stepping stone to 21st century information literacy. Here in Li Sing Primary School, I strive to enable my pupils to learn via a framework of early literacy thatenvelopes book handling skills, questioning, read aloud and prediction for P. 1-2 pupils. The set reading skills are extracts taken from the English Curriculum Guide published by the Education and Manpower and Bureau. ( See Appendix 1) Alongside with reading, listening, speaking is also used during everyday teaching and daily activities. Process writing and free writing has also been used to help pupils to master writing as a creative process whereby they use mind map, paragraphing and connectives to make writing a meaningful learning task
A Study on the Prospect of Library Resources Utilization Education Based on the Results of Short Thesis Writing Competitions: Take Mingdao High School as an Example
No full textIn 2004,Taiwan’s Ministry of Education initiated the first Short Thesis Competition for Senior High School Students for the purpose of helping them cultivate reading and researching skills as well as guiding them to make use of library resources and services to do research.Mingdao High School has been practicing a program called “Learning to Learn”, in an attempt to make students, by using various learning strategies, think and learn for themselves so as to adapt themselves to the constantly changing society. To ensure the success of this program, the school library offered courses in short thesis writing, and encouraged students to participate in the island-wide Short Thesis Competitions. To Mingdao High School’s satisfaction, the contestants’ theses were all highly rated.The object of this study is, through an analysis of the results of the short thesis competitions, to understand the efficiency of Mingdao High school’s current education on students’ application of the library’s resources. In addition, we also want to share our experience about how we lead students to write their theses, hoping it will serve as a reference for other senior high schools. The research method this study adopts is called the content-analysis approach. In this paper, the award-winning short theses of the previous years are analyzed, including the types of topics chosen and how reference books are cited. A questionnaire is also used to help us understand how short thesis writing helps students learn
Turn Trash into Treasure Recycling Children\u27s Books: How Disposed Picture Books Benefit Rural Schools
No full textChildren’s books disposed from the libraries can be trash, but in great varieties, once they are recycled properly, they will be treasure. There are thousands of children’s books disposed from the public libraries in the US due to different kind of reasons, through these years with careful handling, they become useful collections for the children of countries, where English is a major foreign language. They also have become valuable learning materials in schools and in the public libraries in Taiwan.In 1999, an earthquake stroke Taiwan and caused severe damages in the Central part of Taiwan. Many schools suffered from the damages. This tragedy brought in much concerns and donations from all over the world. North America Taiwan Women Association (NATWA) visited the damaged area and found that school libraries were in extreme need of help. In addition to monetary donation, NATWA realized the spiritual healing is as important as reconstruction process, therefore in 2004 NATWA launched “Turn Trash into Treasure Recycling Children’s Books” program mainly collecting off-shelf children’s books from American public libraries and shipped books to Taiwan, where the books are mostly in need. Geographically the recycling children’s books are mostly collected from about 45 public libraries in the Northern New Jersey area.This paper presents how the project was initiated and promoted, so as programs were designed to make maximum utilization of the recycled children’s books. Summarize statistical status of the project as well as cooperative process during the past four years
Use of Databases and eBooks in International Schools in Hong Kong: A Small Scale Survey
No full textThis usage of online databases and eBooks in three international secondary schools in Hong Kong is investigated from the student perspective. Major issues relating to e-Resources surfaced include: student preferences for eResources, WWW or print materials; volume of use, and reasons for use; students’ perceived retrieval ability; and ease of use of e-Resources. The implications of library policies and information literacy training are explored. The results raise issues that can assist school librarians to make informed decisions about e-Resource acquisitions and related library activities, such as the need for user education and promotion of e-Resources
Negotiating the Social Organization of School Library Work
No full textI investigated how school library work is socially organized and how that social organization affects cooperation with teachers and others in the school. The research uses the institutional ethnography frame of inquiry, providing a way of looking at how the role and function of the school librarian/ school media specialist is socially-organized and institutionally-oriented. The social organization was apparent in the categories of collaboration, technology, and access. A better understanding of how library work is socially organized will help working librarians understand how to negotiate their workplace more effectively. An understanding of how to examine the social organization of an institution can help inform research and teaching in school librarianship as well. This presentation is a follow-up to a presentation at IASL 2008 conference in Berkeley, California
Teachers-librarian collaboration in building the curriculum for an IB World School: A case study
No full textMany schools are in the transition stage from passive learning environments into active ones. Teachers, librarians and administrators are forced to rethink the curriculum in terms of content and teaching methodology because of advancement of technology and competitions. The paper will demonstrate the need of collaborative work of teacher-librarians and class room teachers. It will analyse the need of students and faculty for viable information skills offering librarians a new entrée into the classroom curriculum. Librarians are designing a variety of outreach programs to work more closely with teachers to integrate information skills into the curriculum. The paper will present a case stud
The Provision of school library resources in a changing environment : A case study from Gauteng province, South Africa
No full textBefore 1994 education in South Africa was divided along racial lines. There were separate departments of education for whites, coloureds (people of mixed decent), Indians (people of East Indian decent), and blacks (black Africans). Education for white children was much better funded than any of the others. The quality of the education that white children enjoyed was also much better as schools were better equipped, teachers were better qualified and classes were smaller. This inequality also applied to school library provision. All white schools had well-equipped libraries and full-time teacher-librarians. A start was made with libraries in the other departments, but , for example, only secondary schools for black learners had libraries. Black primary schools were just provided with classroom collections
Nurturing lifelong readers
No full textOn reflection, I realise the thing I enjoy most about my job as a school librarian is nurturing lifelong readers, in particular readers of children’s literature
Smart collections: Can artificial intelligence tools and techniques assist with discovering, evaluating and tagging digital learning resources?
No full textThis paper reports on a joint proof of concept project undertaken by researchers from the Flinders University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in partnership with information managers from the Education Network Australia (edna) team at Education Services Australia to address the question of whether artificial intelligence techniques could be employed to help with creation and consistency of learning resource metadata and improve the efficiency of digital collection workflows? The results show some success with automated subject categorisation on a small sample, and the researchers conclude that automated classification based on artificial intelligence is useful as a means of supplementing and assisting human classification, but is not at this stage a replacement for human classification of educational resources