This is another video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State. He’s the guy whose videos I posted yesterday. Here’s how Wesch describes it on YouTube:
“a short video summarizing some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives [...]
Here’s a good story for you. Instead of having books sent by camel, in Venezuela they’re sending books by mule (bibliomulas). You really can’t go wrong hearing about children who are excited to read. This paragraph from the BBC News website is excellent:
“Bibilomu-u-u-u-las,” they shouted as the bags of books were unstrapped. [...]
A while back, I wrote about how Harry Potter and how the phenomenon hasn’t gotten kids hooked on reading as much as some people claim. While I disagree with that I just came across an article on the top 50 books that people have said got them hooked on reading. One would assume [...]
According to a New York Times report, the Harry Potter books don’t really do much to affect reading habits of the youth in America. According to Dana Gioia, charman of the National Endowment for the Arts, “It [the Harry Potter series] got millions of kids to read a long and reasonably complex series of [...]
