I'm interested in what you think of the impact of technology on kids. How are they going to absorb the lessons of art and history and literature in any serious way when they're all surfing the Net?
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There’s a whole new brain operation that’s being moulded by the computer. But educators shouldn’t be following what the students are doing. Educators need to analyze the culture and figure out what’s missing in the culture and then supply it. Students find books onerous. But I still believe that the great compendium of knowledge is contained in books.
What worries me about the Web is the total inability of students to assess whether something is solid, dubious, or whether it’s a joke or a scam. People who’ve worked with books have the ability to do that. What's scary is people have lost the ability to do research. They think the whole world has moved to the computer. I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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É óbvio que como educadores, professores e professores bibliotecários não nos podemos pôr 'ao nível' das crianças e dos jovens aceitando acriticamente os conteúdos trazidos via web. Saber procurar, conhecer a diversidade e 'adequabilidade' das fontes (em qualquer suporte)saber pesquisar, saber analisar...é o que é preciso ensinar.
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