An Amazing Article!

The article is Tots to Tween by Madeline Walton-Hadlock and it is quite impressive. I have read a lot of articles. Most discuss the challenges faced by the newly define age-group of tweens as affronts to the traditional library. I have found few articles that take on the challenges of the tween age-range as something to be embraced and conquered rather than something to be avoided or suppressed. This article definitely views the potential of libraries providing wonderful educational content as a needed reality.

Walton-Hadlock mainly talks about how technology can be used not only to snare the curiosity of the tween to bring them into the library, such as video game consoles, but also shows how technology has been used as a main topic of instruction within the library. She talks of utilizing technology, but shows that there has to be guidance, goals, purpose and oversight when implementing technology based programs. The library should take the role of showing the tween the potential that technology has at enhancing the reading experience, learning experience and work experience. The computer instruction sessions, for example, are a useful resource to involve tweens in learning the potential of technology in learning.