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Teaching Fahrenheit 451 and Censorship w/ a Tech Twist?

Posted by Cliff on from the classes-I-wish-I-had-in-high-school dept.

scrimmer asks: " I'm a second year high school English teacher--heaven forbid I misspell something in this post! I'll be teaching Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 for the first time this semester, and I was hoping Slashdotters could help me out a bit. I want to make the novel as relevant as possible to my students, but I would also like to work DMCA-related stuff, free speech-on-the-Internet stuff, and other issues--as seen on Slashdot--into the unit to give it a fresh spin, in addition to the traditional censorship issues normally taught alongside this novel. I've been chasing web links for weeks, but I'm afraid I might miss some salient issues. If you were a student in my class for a few weeks, what kind of angle would you most like to investigate while studying this novel?"

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  1. Don't pander to the Slashdot crowd by duffbeer703 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You'll find that few of your students will identify with the particular viewpoints expressed by the "Slashdot community"

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  2. Re:Dictionary Censorship by michaela · · Score: 3, Informative

    I beg to differ. I have a full install of MS Office 2000 (9.0.2720); both buffoon and cretin are included in the spell-check dictionary. I just tried it to make sure.

    Perhaps you have somehow broken your dictionary or have it set to use a language other than English.

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  3. At the risk of baiting anti-RMS folks... by cowbutt · · Score: 3, Informative
    ...I always felt the themes of his essay "The Right to Read" meshed well with F451.

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