The Bookless Library!?!
Now that you have had the chance to read about (with pleasure? with horror?) Cushing Academy's vision of the bookless library, what do you think? There's a term for people who resist the coming technology tide, and it's generally not meant as a compliment: Luddites. Does Cushing have it right? Is this indeed the way to engage students in reading? Is Cushing totally off base? Or, as many students suggested when asked, is there a compromise path that would be best?
Is this the way to engage students in reading?Maybe, maybe not. I think only time will tell. I agree that the experience of holding a book and being immersed in it are very different from reading on a screen. Nonetheless, I've heard parents say that their children are attempting to read books on The Kindle reader, that they would never have picked up off a shelf, because they would have been intimidated by the books' length.It is certainly hard to imagine a world without books.
ReplyDeleteMrs. N