Friday, January 31, 2014

Article Suggestions for Essay #1

Article Suggestions for Essay #1

"Why E-Reading With Your Kid Can Impede Learning"

"A Focus on Distraction"

"Does Great Literature Make Us Better?"

Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv (I have a copy of this text you could borrow; it is also available in the Stewart Library. You will want to focus on a single chapter, not the entire book).

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr

"The Rx for Technology"  (This is the podcast of a Radio West interview of David Strayer by Doug Fabrizio).

"The Risks of Parenting While Plugged In"



"Reading Study Shows Remarkable Decline in U.S." (This is the transcript of an interview conducted on NPR. You can either listen to or read the interview.)

"Fiction Reading Increases for Adults"

"Decline of American Reading Culture: Literature’s Struggle in Face of Pop Culture"

"Young Adult Lit Comes of Age"

"Adults Are Devouring Kids' Books For Good Reason"

"The Real Effects of Technology on Your Health"

"Despite Risks, Internet Creeps Onto Car Dashboards"

"How Green is My iPad?"

"Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say"

"Set Students Free With Technology in Schools"

"The Problem With Technology in Schools"

"Learning in the Digital Age" from Scientific American (I have a hard copy in my office)

9 comments:

  1. I picked the "Set Students Free With Technology in Schools" for my outside article.

    Evan C

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    1. I also had to use an outside source to emphasize the missing part. I chose the article "Technology and Kids: The Good, the Bad, and the Balance."

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  2. Which article did you guys choose to write on for our first essay?

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    1. I choose "The Real Effects of Technology on Your Health," I thought it was a very interesting article that had some great pointers about what technology is actually doing to our health.
      Sydney Medsker

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  3. I think that e-read has its benefits and its cons.
    Omar Cuevas

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  4. I think e-read could be very bad for young kids because they will never learn to read a really book!!

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