Educators to some extinct should embrace the new literacy as digital. It is good to let young adults know and expand their knowledge on the online reading we have now, most of them do not know how to access any of it. In order for educators to embrace and extend their knowledge of where to go online and how to look everything up will be very helpful.
But, I still think that Educators need to keep using some books, so our society does not get away from the meaningfulness of literature books. For example, when I was in high school, our literature book was of course a freaking monster in size, but when we read a short poem or we had a story to read, there was a picture somewhere near it and it had a meaning behind it. A meaning whereas, readers online might not get the same outcome if the picture was not there.
And yes, you may say that they can add the picture online, but how are you supposed to let the teacher talk about it? Unless, the whole class is in the computer lab on the internet, of course, we all know computer labs are always occupied, so in reality this will not always occur.
I completely agree! You put it well.We need to keeps books around.
ReplyDeleteYes. Books should definitely stay! I totally believe that by going digital, kids will completely miss the main points of the literature. Although the carrying around the books sucks, it's so much better than trying to read on the internet! I think it takes me longer to read stuff on the internet than it takes for me to read a real book. I get so distracted by Facebook that it takes me atleast an hour to actually concentrate on what I'm reading.
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