"Today‟s average college grads have spent less than 5,000 hours of their lives reading, but over 10,000 hours playing video games (not to mention 20,000 hours watching TV). Computer games, email, the Internet, cell phones and instant messaging are integral parts of their lives. "
-Prensky, 2001: author of Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, From On the Horizon (MCB University Press, Vol. 9 No. 5, October 2001)
What can you do in your classroom to enhance reading? I challenge you to double the reading hours!
Consider using:
TECHNOLOGY...
*CELL PHONES
*EMAIL
*BLOGS
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