tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039203649971747756.post8111658106827469529..comments2023-07-15T17:37:15.233+10:00Comments on My Reading List: Be Cool... Be Smart... Be A Reader!Mozettehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16267731815392625679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039203649971747756.post-7216033033739347702012-07-29T15:15:04.983+10:002012-07-29T15:15:04.983+10:00What puzzles me is that kids now have all the tech...What puzzles me is that kids now have all the technology at their fingertips to read, to find everything out for themselves - as well as State Libraries (here we have in Queensland) and yet they aren't given the knowledge on how to use those resources.<br /><br />With libraries and bookstores closing left and right, we will have a generation of children who won't know what these places are; or that they existed in the first place. This is something which really makes me sad.<br />I have always told my niece that - if she can't find out what she wants to find from her teachers or anyone around her - to go to a library and look it up in a book as books normally have the best information around. Computers and the internet can have all the wrong information from all the wrong sources.<br />The more we inform our children where to get the right information - and how to get it - the better-informed they will be.Mozettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16267731815392625679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4039203649971747756.post-34930949341529083782012-07-27T00:13:26.438+10:002012-07-27T00:13:26.438+10:00I couldn't agree more. I live/work near this s...I couldn't agree more. I live/work near this school:<br /><br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/nov/23/philip-pullman-school-library<br /><br />Sad to say, the school library did close, ensuring their pupils will leave for possibly College/Sixth form/Uni with no idea how to use an academic library for research & evaluation.https://carolineschroniclesblog.wordpress.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10990425364581410576noreply@blogger.com