Re: [LM_NET] Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Medium Is the Medium

[Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@YAHOO.COM>]

I saved this message because I wanted to read the article in my "quiet, 
contemplative" time on Saturday morning.  It really made me think about some 
things are important to me.  Thank you Thomas for sending your message to share 
the article.

I realized as I read the article with the references to "reading books makes us 
smarter" and "reading raises test scores" and "Internet use might be detrimental 
to children" and "the lack of focus our society has" that I recognize these 
arguments.  I experienced these arguments when I was in High School, and I 
revisited them when my children were born in the 80's.  When my children were 
small I wondered if private education or home schooling would be better for them 
than public education.  For me the arguments are all about "How do you get the 
best education possible?"

I understand now that you get an education by taking the best advantage of what 
is put before you.  That is just what the American Dream is supposed to be 
about.  Do you have books at home?  Read them and you will become smarter.  Do 
you have a school library with a quality collection of books and resources?  Use 
it and you will become smarter.  Do you utilized the public library and all the 
myriad resources available to you?  You will become smarter.  Do you "play" on 
the Internet or do you use it as a tool to provide for your information needs?  
You know what I'll say next.

Education is experiencing plenty of tough issues right now, but it's been that 
way for as long as I can remember.  I have found that when I effectively use the 
resources I have to gain knowledge, experience, or even influence in the end I 
am better than when I started.  So, yeah I agree "The medium is the medium."  
And, it is ours to do with as we choose.  We can choose to become better or not.

 
Lisa Hunt, NBCT 2005
School Library Media Specialist
Apple Creek Elementary
Moore, OK
lisa3moon@yahoo.com 




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From: Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Medium Is the Medium

Thomas T. Kaun, Teacher Librarian
Bessie Chin Library @ Redwood High School
Larkspur, CA 94939
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President: Calif. School Library Assoc. - NS

Information doesn’t deserve to be free. It is an abstract tool; a useful
fantasy, a nothing. It is nonexistent until and unless a person experiences
it in a useful way. --Jaron Lanier


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