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silveradept) wrote2012-09-24 12:58 pm
silveradept) wrote2012-09-24 12:58 pm
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Vignettes: Old-World research methods.
I've made it through two books of the Hunger Games trilogy. I now udnerstand a lot more why the third book was a very anticipated thing, and that this series is going to have staying power. I'll get to book three this week, and I now know just how badly botched the movie is in showing the true horror of the books. I really do think that it's a decision of shooting for the PG-13 rating that destroys the whole thing. The second book will be even more difficult to translate into a movie, especially if they want it to be on the same rating marker.
Elsewhere, I got a nice little flier in the mail talking about a Profiles in Courage scholarship to celebrate the anniversary of the publicatino of the book. I'm reading along the requriements, some of which are, in my opinion, limiting the field of possibilities rather severely (find a politician that has exemplified the virtues talked about in the book) others that were just there, and one that made me briefly contemplate whether or not I could use it as an acceptable substitute for disc golf. It says that the student needs to cite at least five sources, one of which has to be a print source, to ensure research diversity.
ARGHELBLARGH Argelfaster, Argelfaster, Argelfaster!
Forserious, people, print resources? Most of our print resources are available through electronic resource databases, because it's cheaper to buy the package that gets continually updated rather than having to spend money every so often for material that will eventually be obsolete just by the passage of time and the making of news. We keep a few print resources, perhaps because they come as package deals, or because they're material that a public library should have as print resources. Most of your political information, including things like voting records, sponsorship of bills, and the Record of their remarks and political views, are going to be on-line these days.
Yes, it's possible to cheat-cite electronic as print, as if you had the actual thing in front of you. The point is, though, in the library profession, we get irritated by teachers that insist that their students do research in print resources, unless they're widely-available resources on common topics that would have print resources. The new Common Core standards are less about fetch quests and more about reading and interpreting, which requires wider availability of sources. Requiring a print source, past the point of "this is what this does", as a jumping-off point for futher research, or because the resource you want them to use is only available in print (like, say, a biography) is not going anywhere.
*sigh* It's one thing when teachers do it, it's another thing entirely when scholarship contests are buying into this.
So... that happened.
Elsewhere, I got a nice little flier in the mail talking about a Profiles in Courage scholarship to celebrate the anniversary of the publicatino of the book. I'm reading along the requriements, some of which are, in my opinion, limiting the field of possibilities rather severely (find a politician that has exemplified the virtues talked about in the book) others that were just there, and one that made me briefly contemplate whether or not I could use it as an acceptable substitute for disc golf. It says that the student needs to cite at least five sources, one of which has to be a print source, to ensure research diversity.
ARGHELBLARGH Argelfaster, Argelfaster, Argelfaster!
Forserious, people, print resources? Most of our print resources are available through electronic resource databases, because it's cheaper to buy the package that gets continually updated rather than having to spend money every so often for material that will eventually be obsolete just by the passage of time and the making of news. We keep a few print resources, perhaps because they come as package deals, or because they're material that a public library should have as print resources. Most of your political information, including things like voting records, sponsorship of bills, and the Record of their remarks and political views, are going to be on-line these days.
Yes, it's possible to cheat-cite electronic as print, as if you had the actual thing in front of you. The point is, though, in the library profession, we get irritated by teachers that insist that their students do research in print resources, unless they're widely-available resources on common topics that would have print resources. The new Common Core standards are less about fetch quests and more about reading and interpreting, which requires wider availability of sources. Requiring a print source, past the point of "this is what this does", as a jumping-off point for futher research, or because the resource you want them to use is only available in print (like, say, a biography) is not going anywhere.
*sigh* It's one thing when teachers do it, it's another thing entirely when scholarship contests are buying into this.
So... that happened.