Comments on Dawn of the digital nativesTypePad2008-02-07T09:18:37ZEwan McIntoshhttps://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/tag:typepad.com,2003:https://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/02/dawn-of-the-dig/comments/atom.xml/Ewan McIntosh commented on 'Dawn of the digital natives'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200e550306db188342008-02-07T11:11:00Z2008-02-07T11:11:00ZEwan McIntoshhttp://edu.blogs.comDon't get me wrong, I'm not saying that reading novels is bad. That would be crazy, especially from someone like...<p>Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that reading novels is bad. That would be crazy, especially from someone like myself who reads paper for at least an hour a day for pleasure.</p>
<p>But I do think that life becomes richer when you read both online and off. It's just that we tend to offer some kind of pseudo intellectual respect to offline reading which is not granted to online reading, so online reading doesn't get taught very well - or at all - in schools. That's a huge mistake on our part.</p>Adam Sutcliffe commented on 'Dawn of the digital natives'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200e5501bf8bb88332008-02-07T11:04:22Z2008-02-07T11:04:22ZAdam Sutcliffehttp://thegordonschools.typepad.co.uk/asuHi Ewan I wonder who would be the more rounded citizens though, novel readers I suspect. I worry about the...<p>Hi Ewan<br />
I wonder who would be the more rounded citizens though, novel readers I suspect. I worry about the lack of desire to read in general because along with John, my experience is that many kids don't read what is front of them on the web, let alone a book.<br />
I would also think that an obsessive novel reader would have a greater cultural awareness.</p>John Johnston commented on 'Dawn of the digital natives'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451f00f69e200e5501bed9c88332008-02-07T10:23:56Z2008-02-07T10:23:56ZJohn Johnstonhttp://www.sandaigprimary.co.uk/pivot/johnjohnston.phpHi Ewan, I can't read the original piece (site's not responding at the mo) but I'd more worry about the...<p>Hi Ewan,<br />
I can't read the original piece (site's not responding at the mo) but<br />
I'd more worry about the kids who are neither, they may spend a lot of time online but very little of that time is reading or thinking. From talking to children I don't hear of many of them reading online, a lot of time clicking randomly until the game starts seems to preferable to reading the instructions. Perhaps we need to really start thinking about teaching browser reading. <br />
Aside, I've been an obsessive reader, failed to become a programmer am now a fairly obsessive blogger and still don't get £40,000!</p>