NEWPORT NEWS — School librarians in Newport News are exploring new ways of helping students dig deeper and question further.
Traditional research from books to write papers no longer works as well in a world that makes so much information available without context or verification via the Internet, said Beth Lee, librarian at Lee Hall Elementary School.
"It's about pushing them," Lee said. "I'm finding that these kids with the Internet, the (Nintendo) DS, and all that junk that they have — it's instantaneous. So they don't know how to work to find answers.
"Giving them the perseverance to do it, that's what those processes are about — teaching them a...