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Web proponents believe that strong readers on the Web may eventually surpass those
who rely on books. Reading five Web sites, an op-ed article and a blog post or two,
experts say, can be more enriching than reading one book.
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The problem I see with this in my school is that kids don't read op-ed articles.
And when left to find information on their own, they don't read web sites either.
They just print them. I think that testing Internet literacy is a great idea. And
the more people see the value in teaching Internet literacy, the more our value as
media specialists is promoted.
Marsha ReddLibrarian, Kelloggsville High School Grand Rapids, MI
marsharedd@hotmail.comEducation is not a goal; it is a life-long process. Everyone
is a student. Everyone is a teacher.
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> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:57:03 +0000
> From: william.katzenberger@COMCAST.NET
> Subject: [LM_NET] GEN: NYT article: Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
> To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
>
> July 27, 2008
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
> Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
> By MOTOKO RICH
> BEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice
>her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.
> Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet.
>She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in
>this suburb southwest of Cleveland.
> A slender, chatty blonde who wears black-framed plastic glasses, Nadia checks her
>e-mail and peruses myyearbook.com, a social networking site, reading messages or
>posting updates on her mood. She searches for music videos on YouTube and logs
>onto Gaia Online, a role-playing site where members fashion alternate identities
>as cutesy cartoon characters. But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or
>fanfiction.net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based
>on books, television shows or movies.
>
> --
> William L Katzenberger, Jr.
> Media Specialist
> Dodge Park Elementary School
> 3401 Hubbard Road
> Landover, MD 20785
> william.katzenberger@comcast.net
>
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