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[Technology 1687] Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?

David J. Rosen djrosen at comcast.net
Sun Jul 27 18:55:26 EDT 2008


Technology colleagues,

Today's New York Times has an article (online, of course) on reading
online vs reading books. Among other things mentioned are:

• a spoof web site about an endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus
that 90% of the students of the teacher who assigned the web site
thought was authentic,
• an Internet literacy test which will be taken by students in OECD
countries (except the U.S.), and
• various views about whether reading online is an essential kind of
reading now or distracting from serious reading.

You'll find the article at:

http://tinyurl.com/6n7vjk

I wonder what you think of this article (the first in a series).

David J. Rosen
djrosen at comcast.net





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