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Reflections on Teaching in the Covid-19 World

Web 0.0 to 2.0 and Beyond (from The Superintendent Rulebook ) I remember the sense of the importance of going to the school library of my elementary school for the first time. We were going to learn how to unlock the card catalog and the mysteries of the Dewey Decimal System. With this knowledge, we leveraged the world's knowledge contained in all of those books on the shelf. It was a huge day, and yet, I still do not remember my teachers doing much with the librarian to build it into what we did in the classroom. There would be the occasional project that we were instructed to "see the librarian" if we needed help, and, the librarian being only one person, really could not give us the time we needed. Another vivid memory is the day my father bought for us the Funk, and Wagnalls Encyclopedia set, he said we could look up anything (in alphabetical order!) and get information. So I started getting information, then copying verbatim for reports and then