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Learning To Read With Click and Jane
theodp writes "While earlier generations learned to Read with Dick and Jane, the NYT Magazine reports that today's tykes are getting their reading chops at online sites like Starfall (free) and One More Story (subscription). Quoting the Times Magazine: 'In their book "Freakonomics," Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt write that kids who grow up in houses packed with books fare better on school tests than those who grow up with fewer books.' So how will kids who learn to read online fare when they grow up?"
Hooked on Slashdot worked for me.
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I learned a lot of things by watching videos on Dick & Jane's paysite.
I learned to read playing Dragon Warrior on NES. For years the teachers would tell me not to use "thee" and "thou".
Aye tink day will bee find.
close enough
They'll probably post half baked, inaccurate stories with misleading summaries to forum based websites.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Of course on the positive side, kids will become incredibly skilled at making animated powerpoint presentations with dancing chipmunks and disco soundtracks, to cover up their ignorance.
They should make ceo in no time with skills like that!
We live, as we dream -- alone....
I can scarcely believe the preceding two comments were by a registered user and an AC respectively, rather than the other way 'round.
DRM: Terminator crops for your mind!
It's not just the viewing experience. Computers almost always do something crazy to my attention span; I can read a book for a long time, but on a computer I'd struggle to concentrate. It happens with almost everything, watching movies, reading, writing on a computer - there's an overwhelming feeling that I could just be doing something else too. I'm just too weak willed and...
We're raising a generation who will base their life philosophies on bad car analogies.
Have gnu, will travel.