READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION CLUB
READING AND WRITING MOTIVATION CLUB
No. When I read a book the characters walk the way the author describes, but there is a lilt in their step, or a drag of the foot that my imagination writes into the scene. The interaction of author and reader combines to form a unique universe so that the book I read is slightly different than the book you read. I am thankful for parents with good genes and the good sense to foster a love of imagination and curiosity that makes my reading life rich and vivid. When I curl up in bed at night, with a cup of tea and a puffy comforter, or stretch out on a blanket in the grass with the breeze playing around me, I enter worlds that would remain closed to me without reading. The quality of the binding, the paper, the font, the smell of the book, all combine for an escape that engages all of my senses. I just can't see curling up around a computer with the same sense of comfort, sensuality and adventure. Abolish print media? No.
Text books are heavy. In average, it contains 90 to 100 pages with many lessons (though teachers skipped many of them). In each day, I carry 10 different books and 20 notebooks to the school. The school bag weighs 5 KG approximately. I carry it regularly.It causes backache. Can we avoid such miserable condition by using CD-ROM and floppies in the school? As all the lessons of all text books can be kept in one CD. And we can use floppy to take class note and to write the answer. These questions raised by tina,8 yr old girl and grade III. Should we abolish print media to get relief to tina ? Or can we change the form of text book or the lesson plans of text book to reduce weight of the school bag ?
Absolutely not!!! Print media enriches children's lives and develops literacy. CD-ROM's and floppies are wonderful tools to have but should not be the only means of learning. Children need to be exposed to many different types of print media such as books, magazines, and newspapers..
There is a lot to be said for supplying students with excerpts from text books, cd-roms, internet articles, and handouts or worksheets. But, to abolish all print media? Imagine a world with no newspapers, magazines and books. We would all be the poorer.
Are we afraid to accept the change? jjphill406 said that print media enriches children's lives and develops literacy (message no.70).Is it not possible through electronic media? queenou could not accept abolition of print media (message no71).She does not want to imagine a world with no newspapers, magazines and books. Well, think of the people who wrote scriptures, messages on the leaves, on the walls of the caves, on the mummies or on the pyramids.Did they perceive threat when print media were growing?Now, we are entering into next millennium. What will we offer to our future generation, print media ? Do they accept them when the electronic media are there ? Do they accept your news papers, journals or text books in printed form? No, they will not. They will think that those are creating troubles in maintaining their floor space (floor space will be shorter due to high population growth).They will tell that their forefathers were very poor in storing and communicating their ideas.Historians in their age will write that their forefathers were very intelligent and developed many innovative ideas. But due to overemphasis on print media, their intelligentsia were destroyed.We received those materials which were preserved in the CD-ROM.
I agree with Queenou. Sometimes there is nothing better than reading a good book.
True, but what about those students who don't have access to CD-ROMS and all this wonderful technology? In the area where I teach, many of our students do not have access to technology. When they are not at school they are not exposed to technology simply because their families can't afford computers. If we abolish print media then these students will be totally left behind. I'm sure this is true in other areas of the country/world as well
Ah, but those of us who want to keep print media are not saying that there is not a place for alternate reading sources. Obviously those of us who are responding to this club have found a very good use for electronic media. I know very few people with intelligence who do not rely on all available information. I use the library every week and do not have to worry about the cost of books or the storage problems. With my magic library card I have access to print media AND the alternate sources from all over the world. My private collection of books is limited to some very old books which I collect, a few favorite fictional friends and a solid base of reference books. Why abolish print media when we can have the wealth of information available in all forms?
True, computer is costly now-a-days. But will it be same in near future ? Once, television was costly. Very few people could afford that at that time. But, now-a-days, it is available in all houses across all socio-economic status.So, I think that computer will be affordable in near future like tv set. So at that time, will the future generation accept print media ? I think that in this debate, we have not given emphasis on some other issues in favour of print media. Should I tell it ?.. huh, as my opponent will get more score than I.They might kill me with this sword,lol.But I am not worried. I could cross the barricade if they cross me. Well, I am giving here some cues to them with hope that they will write something on those cues. Have we forgot radiational hazards of electronic media ? finger cramps due to repeated typing on the key board ? Have we forgot problems of special children-mentally retarded, borderline, deaf and dumb, spastic. Will electronic media be as substitute of print media for them ?
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