Whining about our students

[Pavel Samsonov]

>
> As for the larger global issues of literacy, literature, and culture:
sure,
> I'm concerned that we may arrive at a time when students don't read more
than
> a screen at a time and that for them research amounts to doing key word
> searches and cut-pasting the appropriate quotes.

We may. But why not create assignmnets (projects) using computers?
How about creating a website of a writer, a poet, a collection of Russian
jokes, songs you name it?
It is creative, and students enjoy this work and learn a lot.

With compliments,

Pavel (Paul) Samsonov
EDAD, College of Education,
Texas A&M University
tel. (409) 862-7771 (lab)
      (409) 862-9152 (home)
fax (409) 862-4347
e-mail p0s5658 at acs.tamu.edu

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