Spotlights: Faculty, Alumna, and Courses

Spotlighting SLIS Adjunct Faculty Stephen Parks, JD; SLIS alum Dr. Tekla Ali Johnson; and three technical elective courses: LIS 416/516: Technology in School Libraries, LIS 457/557: Information Technology and Libraries; and LIS 458/558: Web Design and Evaluation.

Directions for the Introduction of the Concept of Technological Education

Comparison of legal formal materials and the actual directions of development of technological education, which is determined by objective processes of innovative development of economy are refl ected in the needs of innovative technological training for the jobs of the future. All this aff ects the content of the subject Technology in school and requires to identify ways of modernization of techniques of teaching the subject in the solution of the tasks set in the Concept of technological education taking into account the specifi cs of the technosphere in the Russian Federation and the integration of schools and colleges and additional education of children.