I sometimes wonder why I’m only able to edit my own writing after it has been printed out, in 3-D form. My prose will always look so flawless on the screen, but then I read the same words on the physical page and I suddenly see all my clichés and banalities and excesses
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Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann - 3 views
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I'm on page 199 of 349 of Let the Great World Spin: "there's a high that you get when you're writing code. It's cool. It's easy to do. You forget your mom, your dad, everything. You've got the whole country onboard. This is America. You hit the frontier. You can go anywhere, Its about begin connected, access, gateways, like a whispering games where if you get one thing wrong you've got to go all the way back to the beginning." quote from a teen hacker in the novel--it captures adolescence, hacking, learning, delight, beauty, everything: I want to remember this when I meet my new students in September
This is your brain on books - 20 views
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Haha. I'd like to say this to my juniors! And some adults could benefit
The Future Of Reading | Wired Science | Wired.com - 7 views
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I have the same issue. As a business reporter out of college, my first copy editor pushed me to start printing out my drafts for my first round of edits. My editing was much more in-depth and thoughtful, which made her job a lot easier.
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Just another person's opinion on the future of reading and the future of books, but I found it interesting!
Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir - CNN.com - 2 views
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Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
'The Social Network': A Review Of Aaron Sorkin's Film About Facebook And Mark Zuckerber... - 1 views
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by Lessig insightful, creepy
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 4 views
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Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
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The risk, they say, is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
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“Their brains are rewarded not for staying on task but for jumping to the next thing,” said Michael Rich, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School and executive director of the Center on Media and Child Health in Boston. And the effects could linger: “The worry is we’re raising a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains are going to be wired differently.”
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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Bypassing Vonnegut, he clicks over to YouTube, meaning that tomorrow he will enter his senior year of high school hoping to see an improvement in his grades, but without having completed his only summer homework. On YouTube, “you can get a whole story in six minutes,” he explains. “A book takes so long. I prefer the immediate gratification.”
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is that developing brains can become more easily habituated than adult brains to constantly switching tasks — and less able to sustain attention.
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plays video games 10 hours a week
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Storynory - 7 views
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Free Audio Stories for Kids
List of YA Dystopias - 14 views
TeachPaperless: Best Practices in a Twitter-enhanced High School Classroom - 10 views
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Cool idea. I might look into this next week when I take my kids into the lab to wrap up the semester. Perhaps a twitter discussion on "What is truth?"
LoudLit.org - 13 views
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Free readings of public domain literature
Star Readers- Story Time - 6 views
Give a Hoot about Reading - 8 views
IRA Young Adults' Choices Booklist - 7 views
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