Reading By the Numbers by Susan Straight At back-to-school night last fall, I was prepared to ask my daughter's eighth-grade language arts teacher about something that had been bothering me immensely: the rise of Accelerated Reader, a "reading management" software system that helps teachers track student reading through computerized comprehension tests and awards students points for books they read based on length and difficulty, as measured by a scientifically researched readability rating. When the teacher announced during the class presentation that she refused to use the program, I almost ran up and hugged her. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Straight-t.html?fta=y
Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
By Motoko Rich 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.
Loud, Proud, Unabridged: It Is Too Reading! By Amy Harmon Some critics are dismayed at the migration to audio books. The virtue of reading, they say, lies in the communion between writer and reader, the ability to pause, to reread a sentence, and yes, read it out loud - to yourself. Listeners are opting for convenience, they say, at the expense of engaging the mind and imagination as only real reading can.
Superman Finds New Friends Among Reading Teachers By Elissa Gootman Some parents and teachers regard comics, with their sentences jammed into bubbles and their low word-to-picture ratio, as part of the problem when it comes to low reading scores and the much-lamented decline in reading for pleasure. But a growing cadre of educators is looking to comics as part of the solution.
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper By Eric. A. Taub
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink.html
Companies mine growth of MP3 homework By Madlen Read NEW YORK - Lindleigh Whetstone wears headphones as she shoves clothes into the washing machine. Her classmate, Stepheno Zollos, wears them as he shops for groceries. An onlooker might assume the teens are listening to the latest top 40 hit, but they're really learning Spanish. Whetstone, 18, and Zollos, 17, are students in Kathy O'Connor's class at Tidewater Community College in Southeastern Virginia. O'Connor got an $11,000 grant from the school to lend her students iPods so they can practice their Spanish conversations anywhere - not just sitting in front of a computer.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-06-mp3-homework_x.htm
Is Google Making Us Stupid? By Nicholas Carr It is clear that users are not reading online in the traditional sense; indeed there are signs that new forms of "reading" are emerging as users "power browse" horizontally through titles, contents pages and abstracts going for quick wins. It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google
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