Learning How to educate children for the digital age.
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English teacher Jenny Johns uses social networking tools to teach classic literature, such as To Kill a Mockingbird.Do online chatting and social networking count as reading, wonders Mark Bauerlein, a profe... 4:16 |
Rather than defending old-fashioned reading, teachers can enhance it with online experienc... :49 |
For Marc Prensky, the author of Don't Bother Me Mom -- I'm Learning, the written wo... 5:31 |
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 Interview Hey prof, i just txtd u my paperThe Internet allows kids to socialize 24-7, and it shows in their vocabularies.:49
 Interview Defenders of the BookRather than defending old-fashioned reading, teachers can enhance it with online experiences. |
recent commentsI'm a rabid technophile, I'm online literally all the time, and I still read--mostly novels--voraciously. I haven't yet switched to an e-reader, though. High price tag aside, I love the feel of turning the actual paper pages.Anonymous in response to "Do you still read books?" Yes [I still read books]. It's the smell and the texture and something about the turning of the page that keeps things closer to the author, and I would rather go blind from bad lighting whilst reading at night than by radiation from a screen. Anonymous in response to I've switched to e-books -- they're easier to control, a handful of DVDs is a full library. They're easier to choose a readable typefont and size. I read more now than I ever did, but it's all via the computer. Anonymous |
