Technology and Collaborative Teaching Dr. Dianne Oberg Associate Professor School of Library and Information Studies University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Cooperative planning and teaching is often a high stakes endeavour. Involving technology increases the price for many teachers.
Collaborative work is a high stakes endeavour for teacher-librarians as well.
The influx of new technologies into the school presents another risk of marginalization for the teacher-librarian and the library program. In addition to the inherent risks for teachers and teacher-librarians of collaborative work involving technology, there are increasing pressures on them from others, within the school and beyond. Teachers are being expected to develop the skills needed to incorporate technology into their teaching. Teacher-librarians are being expected to have technological expertise, and to share that expertise with teachers as well as with students. For teacher-librarians, the changing technology has made resourcing the curriculum a much harder task.