McKenzie

Jamie McKenzie is a speaker, writer, and consultant on Technology and Information Literacy efforts in schools. In his journals he supports student exploration and reasoning. Jamie also advocates for the removal or major changes in NCLB. Before becoming a speaker he was Director of Libraries, Media, and Technology in Bellingham Washington. There is was in charge of 18 districts, and 10,000 students who were fully networked with 2000 computers.

In From Now On he focuses on school districts committment to providing professional development for teachers that support student exploration and reasoning, through the use of technology in schools. He also assist school districts in using information technology properly in the schools. Reasearching for example can't be found by simply using google, and it is vital to provide educators and students with the tools to find the best information.

In his monthly article he explores the issues of Reading Comprehension and how technology assists with improving comprehension. For a student to comprehend something they must be actively involved and making personal connections to the text. One way of doing this is to highlight information and to write notes about readings. The physical books being replaced by ebooks on laptops, kindles, ipads, and iphones. Most of these electronic devices have made the highlighting and note taking easier, but still have some work to do. The reader should use whatever method works best to ensure comprehension of the text. JF

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