Sunday, 26 February 2017
Week 7
This week we had the opportunity to listen to John Finch talk about technology and some of the impacts it has on our youth. The one topic that we had a discussion on that I found quite interesting was how a child reads nowadays. John mentioned how people today don't read the same way as people use to. People are getting lazy in the way they read. They are reading short blurbs or paragraphs that summarize the information instead of reading all the information to get the facts. Social Media apps like twitter only allow 140 characters per tweet which is changing how we want to receive our information. No one is willing to read more than a page any more. I for one am guilty of this. If I can find a summary of an article I will always just read that instead of reading the whole article. I think as teachers we need to encourage reading and provide our students with many opportunities to read many different type of texts.
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You our right on there Brook. I have also been guilty of this as well. It is really easy to just skim through or check out a summary. Sometimes we just want the information quick and do not want to take the extra time. I agree with John that students can limit their critical thinking of subjects if they always look at the summaries or tweets. I think this is when we can teach about digital citizenship and help students to see the benefits of researching ariticles further.
ReplyDeleteBrook,you are right ,today students are so busy with social media and there messages are very small. Students do not care about whole reading materials that might trouble to understand the topic.But i mentioned one point that my friends they are chat everyday that have good knowledge about what going on in the world and it is helpful who has English as second language . You make good point .
ReplyDeleteI agree with this as well and think it poses a bit of a difficulty for us as teachers. Reading has often been one of the main ways that we provide content for students. We need to realize that times are changing and we need to find different ways to provide information. Or else find ways to improve their reading skills and attention span. Depends what you find more important and where you think the future is headed.
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