David Booth wrote a book called Reading Doesn't Matter Anymore: Shattering the Myths of Literacy. (Stenhouse, 2006) Each Chapter responds to the title because he added, "Unless We" on the table of contents. And, then chapter one is titled "Expand our definition of literacy," and chapter 4 is "Understand the use of technology as literacy."
Booth has been speaking about new literacies for over 10 years that I know about. I first listened to him at the Reading Recovery conference longer ago than that. He is Professor Emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. What Booth is says is important because he has kept up with the "texts" that our students are reading: "comics, magazines, newspapers, the internet, email, graphics, video and sound." Now, when he speaks, and in this book he explains, "I am changing my views on what matters most: I want each reader to be able to read whatever texts he or she wants to or has to read, and to approach each text confidently, critically, and with any luck appreciatively." It's most fun to hear him speak to flesh out that statement, but his personality comes right out in the book too. john delich [email protected] wrote: >You are right about educating our parents on these statistics Lynnelle and I >was even thinking it would be interesting to have our students plot their >hours on reading at home (which we require of them) and hours on electronic >media, if nothing else to show them we are only asking for a small >percentage of their time each night! >Susan Cronk, MS, NBCT >Jenks West Intermediate >6th grade LA/SS > >On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Lynnelle Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I agree that we need to "accept" that electronic media is here to stay, but >> I agree with Bev that it is the imbalance that is occurring that is so >> discouraging. The data that Dr. Allington discussed with teachers at the >> conference was amazing. (I have to say Susan...you better watch out...I >> might snatch him from you.) I wish I had some answer to correct the >> imbalance, perhaps one is to continue to try and educate the parents of our >> students? Perhaps if we informed parents of the same "data" in their terms >> they would get it? Thoughts? >> >> Lynnelle Winter >> Jenks West Intermediate >> 5th Grade LA/SS >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Mosaic mailing list >[email protected] >To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > >Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________________ Sent through e-mol. E-mail, Anywhere, Anytime. http://www.e-mol.com _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
