DEEP Thinking and DEEP Reading - FNO

["Mckenzie, Jamie" <jmckenzie@MSMAIL.BHAM.WEDNET.EDU>]

Announcing the March issue of From Now On - The Educational Technology
Journal

at http://fromnowon.org

                              Deep Thinking and Deep Reading
                           in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage
                               Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer

               Abstract
               According to Birkerts (Gutenberg Elegies, 1994), the search
               for truth requires deep reading and deep thinking. While the
               arrival of new electronic information technologies threatens
               to overwhelm us with info-glut and info-garbage, the
               post-modem school will raise a generation of highly skilled
               "free range students" capable of simultaneously grazing the
               Net and reading deeply. To achieve this goal, schools must
               make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning,
               research, information literacy and student-centered
               classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills
               array to negotiate this new information landscape.

Jamie McKenzie
Editor
mckenzie@fromnowon.org