Amen, Betty. I have thought for a long time now that today's virtual reality
world is robbing our children of their imaginations. They don't seem to know
how to pretend or use their imaginations because they are so used to
everything being so virtually real. And students seem more and more to need
to be entertained in order to even pay attention in a class for more than 10
minutes. This is not just a high school observation. I noticed it when I
taught at the college level. No matter how much hands-on and other
activities I added to my curriculum, I always got comments that I lectured
too much. In one semester I usually lectured for a full class period only a
handful of times. Sometimes I think maybe we are doing students a disservice
by trying to keep them entertained too much.
Marsha Redd
Librarian, Kelloggsville High School
Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.com
Education is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone is a student.
Everyone is a teacher.
----Original Message Follows----
From: "Betty Winslow, BGCA" <bgcalib@WCNET.ORG>
Reply-To: "Betty Winslow, BGCA" <bgcalib@WCNET.ORG>
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: [LM_NET] Does YA NonFiction Cheat Our Students?
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:35:27 -0400
If it's the wave of the future, heaven help us! There are already too many
college students who can't read on a college text level, can't find a
telephone number for a business in the phone book, don't know how to figure
out where to look up basic facts like the population of Canada, etc. because
they've been coddled with too many graphics and not enough meaty text or
research instruction.
<stepping gracefully down from my soapbox now>
Betty Winslow, Media Center Director
BGCA
Bowling Green, OH
bgcalib@wcnet.org
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