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Recharge Your Library Programs with Pop Culture and Technology:: Connect with Today's Teens
Learn how to integrate pop culture and technology into school library programs and classrooms, and make today's digital content, mobile devices, and students' changing interests work to the educator's advantage.
Today's school libraries need to evolve and meet the needs of 21st-century students―the instruction, programming, and library services must be relevant to today's learners. Additionally, the interactions between educators and the students are what make the critical difference in the students' learning, and turn the library and classroom into places where they will find, assimilate, experience, and understand information. This book provides practical strategies for using pop culture and technology trends to connect with easily distracted middle and high school students and hold their attention.
Author Linda D. Behen addresses why school libraries are in transition and why there is a need for dramatic change. She discusses the evolution of all libraries in response to digital content; ubiquitous mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads, and other tablet computers; patrons' changing interests; and the ways in which schools and school libraries have found to effectively adapt to technology changes and student needs. This book is essential for middle and high school librarians and educators, library school students and instructors, and young adult public librarians.
Today's school libraries need to evolve and meet the needs of 21st-century students―the instruction, programming, and library services must be relevant to today's learners. Additionally, the interactions between educators and the students are what make the critical difference in the students' learning, and turn the library and classroom into places where they will find, assimilate, experience, and understand information. This book provides practical strategies for using pop culture and technology trends to connect with easily distracted middle and high school students and hold their attention.
Author Linda D. Behen addresses why school libraries are in transition and why there is a need for dramatic change. She discusses the evolution of all libraries in response to digital content; ubiquitous mobile devices such as smart phones, iPads, and other tablet computers; patrons' changing interests; and the ways in which schools and school libraries have found to effectively adapt to technology changes and student needs. This book is essential for middle and high school librarians and educators, library school students and instructors, and young adult public librarians.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 17, 2013
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November 20, 2017
No offense to the author, but the Pop Culture references (while not quite outdated yet), didn't really help me understand how I was going to use it to help teens/help the librarian in question better do their job. It discusses the importance of following pop-culture through magazines, online resources, films, and the books their reading. It briefly goes over ways to use it too.
However, for someone who isn't tech savvy....this book is the most helpful one yet. True, unfortunately that in oh 5 years, this book will be outdated in the tech dept., for now, this book is new enough to not only mention BUT GLORIFY all of the ways a librarian, whether for school or public libraries can use websites to help your teens as well as AMAZING mostly FREE apps for Ipods/Ipads/Kindles etc (she even tells you which apps are best used on what, and which websites are best used on what).
She focuses on making sure that the librarian whether tech savvy or not, has these resources at their finger-tips, because you can do some truly cool stuff, whether on the apps or from various web resources, many of which are free. The way of technology is ever changing and we as librarians must change with it. This book walks the librarian through basic descriptions and what each computer, app or site is for, what it can do, and ways to use it, either for teachers, parents, librarians or through cool technology programs for your teens. I wish I could keep this book, if only to try out the 90+ apps (including piano lessons, cartoon animation, short films, educational/historical resources, driver's ed, etc.) and 40 websites (many of which we still use, like corkboard and goodreads)...
If you're scared of technology, like me, this book, literally just removed my fears. You will have to jump in the pool sooner or later, and this book, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS AND HONESTY, can help you do that. Any teen specialist or librarian who has to use technology and is afraid or loathe to, this is seriously one to keep for the next (at least 5-10 years). Trust me!
However, for someone who isn't tech savvy....this book is the most helpful one yet. True, unfortunately that in oh 5 years, this book will be outdated in the tech dept., for now, this book is new enough to not only mention BUT GLORIFY all of the ways a librarian, whether for school or public libraries can use websites to help your teens as well as AMAZING mostly FREE apps for Ipods/Ipads/Kindles etc (she even tells you which apps are best used on what, and which websites are best used on what).
She focuses on making sure that the librarian whether tech savvy or not, has these resources at their finger-tips, because you can do some truly cool stuff, whether on the apps or from various web resources, many of which are free. The way of technology is ever changing and we as librarians must change with it. This book walks the librarian through basic descriptions and what each computer, app or site is for, what it can do, and ways to use it, either for teachers, parents, librarians or through cool technology programs for your teens. I wish I could keep this book, if only to try out the 90+ apps (including piano lessons, cartoon animation, short films, educational/historical resources, driver's ed, etc.) and 40 websites (many of which we still use, like corkboard and goodreads)...
If you're scared of technology, like me, this book, literally just removed my fears. You will have to jump in the pool sooner or later, and this book, IN ALL SERIOUSNESS AND HONESTY, can help you do that. Any teen specialist or librarian who has to use technology and is afraid or loathe to, this is seriously one to keep for the next (at least 5-10 years). Trust me!
April 19, 2016
I'm so pleased I found this book! I am a newbie librarian and this book offered lots of practical advice and fun ideas on how to begin building an engaging library program. I especially loved all the helpful links to apps, edtech sites and teacher librarian blogs. Thanks, Linda D. Behen!
December 3, 2015
Easy to read with many practical ideas to incorporate pop culture, social media, and web 2.0 tools into library curriculum.
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