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Honesty Honestly, an Alternative Approach to Academic Honesty
No full textResearch studies and experience suggest that many students just do not understand citation and referencing. They say they know the rules, they seem to know the rules, yet still they make mistakes, sometimes with heavy consequences. For those who do understand, there is no problem. For those who understand what is expected by way of good practice, the main difficulty may be understanding the understandings of those who do not understand, those who do not mean to cheat but who still break "the rules." In this paper, I investigate sources of confusion, and possible disconnects between those who teach citation and referencing and those who learn and use these techniques. The study includes a series of surveys of librarians, teachers and students. Strategies and techniques to promote better understanding and better practice are suggested. Teacher-librarians are well-placed to promote and ensure good practice
Meaningful Research Projects: Perspectives from High School Students
No full textThis study explored what students view as meaningful in a curriculum-based research project. A participatory action research approach was used to investigate the experiences of one classroom teacher and nine students while completing a curriculum-based research project in a senior level high school English course. The design of the research project was based upon the students’ shared definition and understanding about what comprised a ‘meaningful’ assignment. Choice, relevance, reflection and application were considered essential components by the students. Feelings played a primary role in the choices made and significantly influenced student learning and project completion
Public Libraries Stepping into the Gap? A Study of School Learners\u27 Use of Libraries in a Disadvantaged Community in Cape Town
No full textThe paper describes an investigation of school learners\u27 use of the two public libraries in a disadvantaged community on the outskirts of Cape Town. Over 850 school learners were interviewed using a structured questionnaire in late October 2002. The study supports claims that public libraries in South Africa are having to compensate for the shortage of school libraries and are playing a crucial role in formal education. It recommends that this reality be recognised by the libraries\u27 governance structures, by provincial and local government authorities, and, above all, by national and provincial education authorities. Questions are, however, asked about the capacity of the public libraries for an enhanced role in information literacy education
School Libraries in the Sultanate of Oman: Breaking Down Barriers
No full textSince 1970 many public schools, public and private colleges and universities, and some public libraries, have been built in Oman. In all these schools there is a semblance of a library. An educational reform began in 1995 with the building of 107 new schools that emphasise a child-centred approach to education and feature English in Grade 1, a fully equipped Learning Resource Centre, and strong curricula in science, maths, and computer studies. Deriving the maximum educational and investment benefis from the LRCs, however, depends on developing educationally sound school libraries with adequately trained staff, information skills curriculum, materials, site space, program, and staff development
Information Needs of Learning at Emzamweni High School, Inadi, South Africa: A Preliminary Report of an Assessment Linked to the CHESP Community-based Learning Model
No full textThis paper reports on the information needs of learners in the Emzamweni High School in Inadi near Pietermaritzburg Msunduzi in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. A preliminary report, it presents the outcomes of a survey based on the critical incident approach. Students in the Post Graduate Diploma in Information Studies Programme conducted interviews over a two year period from 2001 to 2002. The students were enrolled for an exemplar in the Community Higher Education Service Partnerships project in community based learning at University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. The project was hence an exercise in training student researchers and is useful for what it revealed about the critical nature of the needs of these learners
Discover - Communicate - Collaborate: EdNA Online - http://www.edna.edu.au
No full textEdNA Online is a unique national collaboration between the Australian Commonwealth government Department of Education, Training and Science and the state Education Departments. This collaboration unites learning communities as it provides free resources and online services to all education sectors, including tertiary, schools, vocational training and adult education. There is access to evaluated curriculum resources in a safe environment. The use of standards to enable sharing between states, territories and national education departments has extended knowledge networks. Free communication tools link teacher librarians, teachers and students and assist engagement in professional development
Wikis in School Libraries
No full textThe Web 2.0 thinking and accompanying technologies opened a new direction of development for libraries. Among different Web 2.0 applications wikis are particularly attractive for school librarians. Wikis are read-write web pages that are easy to use, accommodate other Web 2.0 features and are widely applicable for a number of purposes. A Wiki space named LibraryZone is a good example of using wiki in elementary school library. LibraryZone is used for information literacy instructions, conducting a collaborative project, for story writing and as a discussion space. 
Teacher Librarians a Tour de Force for Information Literacy in Hong Kong Schools: Reality or Rhetoric
No full textThe process of curriculum reform in Hong Kong schools has been an ongoing process since 1998. This reform has been largely driven by the catch phrase ‘learning to learn’ and has demanded a more student centered curriculum and pedagogy. Essential ingredients in this reform have been the demand for better qualified teachers, for IT savvy teachers, and for teachers and students who are able to effectively use information to solve problems. Perhaps not surprisingly, the teacher librarian and information services to schools were identified as key ingredients in the change process. Indeed, whereas a decade ago very few schools were equipped with a central library, today almost all schools have one. Likewise a decade ago few schools employed a teacher librarian where as today the post of teacher librarian is one of only two mandated positions in schools; the other being the principal. In addition, all newly appointed teacher librarians are required to complete a two year part time Diploma in Teacher Librarianship that is paid for by the employing authority (although participating teacher librarians face a modest course fee). Participating teachers are allocated time release to support their participation in the program
A Study of the Integration of High School Library Specialities and Community Resources
No full textThe interactive mechanisms of the senior and vocational high schools with one another as well as with the communities have been constructed recently in Taiwan. Every learning community as well as the high schools have worked together to advocate programs and activities such as online learning programs, backup programs for teacher resources, establishment of the instruction resource centers and seminars convened for teachers, etc. The cooperation and resource sharing between and among high schools can not only satisfy the requirements of education for the students within the communities, but also help achieve the goals of nature-oriented learning and development. In 2007, there are 45 learning communities in total, in which 484 high schools participate. The educational resources within each community support and meet the educational requirements of the local students so that the goal of constructing learning communities can be achieved. The construction of the cooperation mechanism to integrate resources among high schools will improve wide-scale educational quality and intensify the characteristic of each learning community
Collection Development in the Digital Age
No full textIn the digital environment where information is increasingly located by using online databases, it becomes even more important that school library books be current, age appropriate, and of outstanding quality. The presenter will review: (a) professional selection sources, (b) creating a school curriculum chart, (c) weeding guidelines by Dewey numbers, and (d) evaluating a library collection. Other topics will include recommended online reference materials and an explanation of how a Maryland consortium provides basic digital sources for all students in the state. Audience participants will be encouraged to share their experiences and suggestions for creating quality collections