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in title, tags, annotations or urlWhat Is Literature For? - 21 views
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Video from The School of Life, a cultural enterprise offering good ideas for everyday life. http://www.theschooloflife.com/ Site includes a classroom and library (archive of study resources).
Promoting Teen Reading with Web 2.0 Tools | YALSA Pre-Conference | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project - 17 views
NovaNews - 12 views
Weighing In: Three Bombs, Two Lips, and a Martini Glass -- NCAC - 0 views
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why books such as Markus Zusak’s Book Thief and Annika Thor’s Faraway Island, both set during the Holocaust, and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Chains, set during the American Revolution, weren’t given any “educational value.” The editor in chief had no clear answers, but those books have now been awarded “educational value” on Common Sense Media’s site. It is clear to the nine organizations that are working hard to protect children and young adult’s freedom to read that Common Sense Media is a moving target, and their piecemeal response to such questions won’t fix what is at heart a misguided and dangerous concept.
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While Common Sense Media isn’t censoring anything, it is providing a tool for censors. There is already a documented case in the Midwest where a book was removed from a school library based solely on a Common Sense review. Common Sense Media allows users to filter books by “on,” “off,” and “iffy” ratings. And reviewers are instructed to point out anything “controversial.” Such warnings encourage site browsers to take things out of context instead of looking at books as a whole.
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Bombs, lips, and martini glasses! Indeed, let them be a warning. We must be proactive in helping parents understand that rating books is dangerous. Otherwise, more censorship bombs are sure to explode.
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CiteULike: Everyone's library - 2 views
Questia Online Library - New Search - 0 views
BGSlibrary - home - 9 views
Bibliographic Format - 17 views
WordSift - Visualize Text - 18 views
Freshman Assembly 2011 on Vimeo - 17 views
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