Response to "Of TImes, Teens, and Books"

In this reading, I felt like this was the most accurate reading thus far. It is talking about technology and it's effects on students and the classroom. I liked how the author said that adolescence is focused on speed, connivence, and immediacy today and this affects the way students learn. The internet and access to computers has really improved the ways to find accurate information about any subject. One of my other professors has talked about requiring his classes to subscribe to a national magazine because it has been proven in studies that readers learn more when their physically holding something. I can see that being true because I know I scan for important information when reading an article online but if I read an article in the paper, I read the whole thing. So, following the author's lead, promoting graphic novels and other books that are about more than reading can really improve the drive for students to read more and encourage them to actually pick up a book even though they could find the information faster by "googling" it.