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

[Kris Fallon <librarychickie@GMAIL.COM>]

Bravo Lisa!

It reminds me of how we are all focused on technology as some sorta'
panacea.  My father growing up in Greece pre WWII said a couple years ago:
*I remember when I was a boy and all the banks would do business outside (at
tables) with the lines of people on the streets.  Then after the war they
built buildings and banks with their lines moved inside; now I'm an old man
and again the banks and the lines of people are back on the streets (Walk up
ATM's)*

It reminds me how students of old at one point used personal slate tablets
while paper and writing implements were rare.  After a whole series of paper
writing implement inventions culminating in the ball point pen, we are now
looking at future students who will have their own personal "smart tablets".

Technology is a tool for learning when used as such; it is not learning unto
itself.


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Lisa Hunt <lisa3moon@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Thomas Kaun <tomkaun@GMAIL.COM>
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> Subject: Fwd: NYTimes.com: The Medium Is the Medium
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> Thomas T. Kaun, Teacher Librarian
> Bessie Chin Library @ Redwood High School
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>
> 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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> Subject: NYTimes.com: The Medium Is the Medium
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Kristina Fallon, LMS
Robert Morris School, k-8
So Bound Brook, NJ
librarychickie@gmail.com
"Only the educated are free." - Epictetus, (Greek-born, Roman slave and
philosopher- 55 AD - 135 AD)

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