Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It by Kelly Gallagher (©2009, Stenhouse Publishers: Portland, ME) explains how most schools teach reading in a way that kills most students love or reading. It also gives advice for how to fix the problem. Educators at the middle school and elementary levels along with parents should read this.
The June 2010 Issue of Wired Magazine brings us a review of a new book by Nicholas Carr titled The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains. It should be out some time in June 2010 from W. W. Norton and Company. The message I get is that we should balance the time we spend reading Internet material with hypertext links and other distractions with the time we spend reading linear text either online or in physical media. I look forward to reading the entire book and I strongly urge my readers to consider subscribing to Wired.
Click here to see my summary of this book review.
Click here to see the Wired article.
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