Thing #15

The article about the small Michigan school library was heartening because it often appears to me that the outside world changes so very quickly and schools are inevitably several steps behind. We study and evaluate changes or additions to our school technology and the process seems to take so long that the world is moving on about the time that we implement our new tools. The technologies employed in the library follow those of the school as a whole. Our own school is blessed with fairly good funds and good technology. What is the possibility of a 2.0 library for schools that don't even have enough working computers for technology classes? I see that a roadblock to widespread successful 2.0 school libraries is access to reliable and current technology. Another roadblock would be access to 2.0 tools that are "secure" for use by young students. We'll have to have more tools that have been "teacherized" and can be used in the educational setting where most schools block access to social networking kinds of tools.