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Why you? The short answer is to improve your students' chances of enriching their understanding of the materials you are working so hard to teach them and to give them the skills to extend that learning beyond your last class period. Why
aren't these skills taught elsewhere? What many students are bringing to Smith College is simply the ability to surf the web. Why? Steady funding cuts in support for school libraries - often with the substitution of Internet accessibility for library materials and staff have resulted in a generation of students without research capabilities. "The ratio of students to school library media specialists varies widely. The state with the best ratio, Montana, has one school library media specialist for every 184.5 public school students. California, with the worst ratio, has one media specialist per 4,326 pupils." AASL Advocacy Toolkit. American Association of School Librarians. No one course at Smith College can do the job. Like a foreign language or any other complex set of skills, information literacy cannot be learned in a single class. Students will become literate only if they learn to do so over the course of their four years at Smith. Home
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