Online Library in the New Normal of Education: A Promising Innovation During Pandemic

Sheryl Ann S. Fulong

Online library in the new normal, in the broadest sense, the backbone of modular distance learning. Any of what happens every day is taken from, or exists in, or near, media services and space on the Internet.

During the pandemic, there are five important functions of the online library.

1.Promoting literacy education. The first role of an online library is to promote reading and writing in and out of school. To this end, provide the online library with online books and other media resources to help student learning in all regular curriculum subjects. Develop an appropriate range of fiction and non-fiction materials at sufficiently diverse levels to satisfy the many preferences and abilities of learners who choose to search out books for home reading.

2.Helping learners learn about online books. A successful online library offers a platform for teachers to educate learners and learn about online books and book collections. Here, learners can explore a range of online book genres and other reading resources in a smaller, more regulated setting than in the school or public library. You will also use the online library to show students how to take care of books. You may also use the online classroom library to teach learners effective techniques for choosing suitable, interesting, and acceptable reading materials. You could expand this approach by extending it to the online classroom, teaching the learners how to find books of interest in these broader environments. And, quite important as well, you can help them understand how to use the Internet to find information about particular books or opportunities for reading content.

3.Provide tools for online classrooms. You can also use the online library as an organized core classroom resource storage facility. In this regard, the online library represents the organization of media centers at the school level.

4.Providing platforms for academic reading and curricular expansion. The fourth significant resource and location of the online library is independent reading, personal discovery, project study, and individual evaluation. Every good intensive reading curriculum helps learners to read independently regularly.

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The author is Teacher III at Don Pepe Cojuangco

Homes Elementary School