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Computers Are Books
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2 thoughts on “Computers Are Books”
Which goes against ACTFL’s new position statement of 7/30/12…..they talk ALL ABOUT comprehensible input!!!
http://www.actfl.org/news/position-statements/use-the-target-language-the-classroom
I would argue that computers and ipads are very poor substitutes for books. Here’s an example: schools claim that if students have ipads, and textbooks are loaded onto those ipads, then kids won’t have to lug all those books back and forth to school, and they can get their reading done wherever they are between school and home. Here’s the problem: even I (4%er Classics MA with a pretty good attention span) can’t read on a screen for very long without giving in to the temptation to jump online to check some sort of electronic communication (especially this PLC!). So how can we expect kids to get any reading done on these devices? At least with a book, you can’t do 50 different and more interesting/stimulating things with it. I think that the ipad and computers have many positive uses for students, but not for reading texts, and not CI.