They might instead skip around, scanning for pertinent information of interest… I can’t get my students to read whole books anymore…” (318). Students are not focusing on reading a book from beginning to end. Instead, students tend to skim through and miss the important information which is a negative impact on them. Carr agrees that using the Web so often is having a negative effect on him because he is having a harder time focusing and reading articles which are more than a few sentences. He points out, “When I mentions my troubles with reading to friends, many say they’re suffering from similar afflictions.
They have read many books. They look at me with bright eyes and arrogant wonder. They are trying to save their lives”(3) Books make those kids realize that they can save their lives by themselves rather than accepting the impression Indian kids are stupid. The words “bright” and “arrogant” shows that the kids have a different mind after gaining from books. Reading books change their mind and maybe as well as their lives.
Students in these programs would require hands-on work to gain the appropriate knowledge in that program. Without the hands-on work, it would be very difficult for that student to learn the required material. Another reason why online classes aren't for everyone is because every person does not have the internet access required to receive the course material needed. Some students don't even own a computer, let alone internet access. Also, some students learn better in a class with others because they learn through physical interaction or by being in the learning environment, so they would not feel as if they are alone.
Even though these devices come with many ways to read, most people do not use this to their advantage. People mainly focus on applications, such as games, that come with these devices. The change from reading a book to playing a game on a digital device can drastically affect a person’s intellectual ability and attention span. Not knowing the effect that all of this technology will have on them, people will gradually become less educated. All of this explains another thing that the book
It’s more like, you want to read it. Because you reading about someone who’s going through what you going through and it helps a lot. But if read something that I can’t get into, then I don’t read it. It’s not interesting to me. Like Mr._________ he get these books and a lot of these words, he can’t even read that.
Karla Carreno Paper 3 Dr. Wegener October 26th, 2011 Learning Through Literature Literature does a lot more to readers than people think. It makes us question everything around us, or makes us think about a certain aspect of life that we have never thought about.Karla Carreno2011-11-17T18:09:38Can't support this because it assumes “we” learns/reads for fun. Nothing is universal or whatevs If you delve deep enough into a work of literature, you can learn a lot more than if you just read it for fun. If you analyze what you read you learn more than you possibly thought you could learn. Literature can teach readers about other people as well, especially people of other ethnicities and cultures.
On the other hand, sometimes I would rather learning on my own. A good and experienced teacher can help me learn faster and easier. Sometimes when learning a course by myself which is hard and confusing to understand and has few sources available, I get discouraged after spending a lot of time. In this situation, I’ll look for a teacher and request for help from him or her. And then he or she will teach me the course efficiently in a short time and therefore I will learn faster and better and won’t get discouraged and confused.
Autobiographies and memoirs are commonly misinterpreted and can sometimes be not very insightful for students, but the truth is that most of them are very insightful for a student of history. They offer a look into the past from their perspective. History students cannot truly just look back into textbooks and just see what happened. Students need to look more closely at memoirs or autobiographies. These pieces offer the insight to the past, that help explain the often troubled or misinterpreted times that students need to understand what really went on in the past and see what shapes our world today.
The young beginner These students lack motivation to learn the language but they tend to pick up the language easier than older students. The choice to learn the language is made by the parents rather than the student The beginner without the Roman alphabet Without an alphabet that includes the letter’s A through Z, this student will need help with initial literacy skills. A great deal of reading and writing practice is needed. Task 2 – How would you as a teacher adapt your approach to beginner students? If I was confronted with a class full of beginner students I would need to alter my approach to teaching.
Teaching students to read and learning to read is an intricate task. Most children enter school with a considerable amount of competence in their spoken language but have little knowledge of how to read and write. There are many diverse approaches used to teach language and literacy skills and a lot of debate has arisen on how to best teach beginning reading. Some educators advocate for a phonics based approach, while others support a whole language approach. This paper will briefly look at these two different approaches, discuss some options on how best to deliver an effective reading program, and review a commercial reading program, in this case, Jolly Phonics, and its usefulness in promoting phonological awareness.