Skip to main content

Home/ Diigo In Education/ Group items tagged vampires

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
1More

SLIC - Vampires in Canada? - 0 views

clatoolbox.ca/...271vampires.html critical literacy web literacy vampires
shared by Derrick Grose on 08 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Derrick Grose on 08 Sep 09
     
    After the bibliography on Canadian vampire fiction there is an activity sheet to help students develop a critical perspective on what they read on the Web (and elsewhere) and to provide them with a model of questions to ask when reading information texts.
7More

On Campus, Vampires Are Besting the Beats - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...AR2009030501541.html
shared by Scott Walters on 09 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Here we have a generation of young adults away from home for the first time, free to enjoy the most experimental period of their lives, yet they're choosing books like 13-year-old girls -- or their parents. The only specter haunting the groves of American academe seems to be suburban contentment.
  • two-thirds of freshmen identify themselves as "middle of the road" or "conservative." Such people aren't likely to stay up late at night arguing about Mary Daly's "Gyn/Ecology" or even Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
  • "I have stood before classes," he tells me, "and seen the students snicker when I said that Melville died poor because he couldn't sell books. 'Then why are we reading him if he wasn't popular?' "
  • ...4 more annotations...
  • a notable uptick in superficiality and a notable uptick in the anesthetizing of that native curiosity that was once a prominent feature of the adolescent mind."
  • maybe young people's reading choices reflect our desire to keep them young
  • "People don't necessarily read their politics nowadays. They get it through YouTube and blogs and social networks. I don't know that there is a fiction writer out there right now who speaks to this generation's political ambitions. We're still waiting for our Kerouac."
  • "Don't trust anyone over 140 characters."
1 - 2 of 2
Showing 20▼ items per page