"Are those who support both print and electronic reference sources fighting a losing battle? How do student preferences for electronic resources affect your purchasing?"
-Lesson 4. R. Beaudry
Rather than feeling like a I am fighting a losing battle, I feel a sense of justification in even entertaining the idea of re-purchasing (because, let's face it, all the encyclopedias at the elementary level got recycled long ago) a set of encyclopedias. "They [ARE] important references to have at the initial stages of research"(Beaudry). And I am discovering that, as we delve into collaborative heritage fair projects with grade 5 students who, bless them, take millennia to type in a web address, then navigate through the proper drop down menus to reach the holy grail of the online encyclopedia, only to discover that the block is now over. Or, they could open a book and practice their knowledge of alphabetical order to find a morsel of information on their obscure but interesting topic. There's something exciting about finding something in a book. Maybe because when it's in a book you feel like it's in the concrete world of physical things rather than floating in cyberspace... who knows what that really is? Zeros and Ones. When ebooks came out there was the fear that they'd take over. But I think it's true, that people and, "publishers have rediscovered their love of the physical" (Daunt). Now my bias has been revealed.
Beaudry, R. (2018, January 5). Lesson 4: Print and / or Electronic Reference Materials. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/1667/pages/lesson-4-print-and-slash-or-electronic-reference-materials?module_item_id=65243
Cocozza, P. (2017, April 27). How ebooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/how-ebooks-lost-their-shine-kindles-look-clunky-unhip-
-Lesson 4. R. Beaudry
Rather than feeling like a I am fighting a losing battle, I feel a sense of justification in even entertaining the idea of re-purchasing (because, let's face it, all the encyclopedias at the elementary level got recycled long ago) a set of encyclopedias. "They [ARE] important references to have at the initial stages of research"(Beaudry). And I am discovering that, as we delve into collaborative heritage fair projects with grade 5 students who, bless them, take millennia to type in a web address, then navigate through the proper drop down menus to reach the holy grail of the online encyclopedia, only to discover that the block is now over. Or, they could open a book and practice their knowledge of alphabetical order to find a morsel of information on their obscure but interesting topic. There's something exciting about finding something in a book. Maybe because when it's in a book you feel like it's in the concrete world of physical things rather than floating in cyberspace... who knows what that really is? Zeros and Ones. When ebooks came out there was the fear that they'd take over. But I think it's true, that people and, "publishers have rediscovered their love of the physical" (Daunt). Now my bias has been revealed.
Beaudry, R. (2018, January 5). Lesson 4: Print and / or Electronic Reference Materials. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/1667/pages/lesson-4-print-and-slash-or-electronic-reference-materials?module_item_id=65243
Cocozza, P. (2017, April 27). How ebooks lost their shine: 'Kindles now look clunky and unhip'. Retrieved January 25, 2018, from https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/how-ebooks-lost-their-shine-kindles-look-clunky-unhip-
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