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From: Anne Oelke <cflibrary>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:14:49 -0600
I personally advocate reading out loud to any and all ages, whenever they'll sit still. Toddlers in the bathtub, teens at the dinner table, everyone in the car--it's all great. I've read to my children from tiny through teens. My husband listened in for many a book. I read to my students. However I have never listened to an audio book. Never followed chapter-a-day on public radio. Never (before today) listened to a podcast. Do you notice the dichotomy? I read but I don't listen. My assumption is that because I'm such a strongly visual learner that
"listening" is extremely difficult for me.
I did listen (sort of) to the CCBC podcast. Well done CCBC staff. However I found myself wanting to have it in printed form instead, wanting to skim, to fast forward, to linger on certain parts. Again, clearly the visual thing going on again. So, segueing into the March theme of audio books, I am going to stretch my horizons and check out an audio book and attempt to listen. Do you think that there are students today who are so strongly visual as I am? Or am I (and my pet Pterodactyl) evidence of an earlier generation? Do today's students learn better by listening or by reading?
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:14:49 -0600
I personally advocate reading out loud to any and all ages, whenever they'll sit still. Toddlers in the bathtub, teens at the dinner table, everyone in the car--it's all great. I've read to my children from tiny through teens. My husband listened in for many a book. I read to my students. However I have never listened to an audio book. Never followed chapter-a-day on public radio. Never (before today) listened to a podcast. Do you notice the dichotomy? I read but I don't listen. My assumption is that because I'm such a strongly visual learner that
"listening" is extremely difficult for me.
I did listen (sort of) to the CCBC podcast. Well done CCBC staff. However I found myself wanting to have it in printed form instead, wanting to skim, to fast forward, to linger on certain parts. Again, clearly the visual thing going on again. So, segueing into the March theme of audio books, I am going to stretch my horizons and check out an audio book and attempt to listen. Do you think that there are students today who are so strongly visual as I am? Or am I (and my pet Pterodactyl) evidence of an earlier generation? Do today's students learn better by listening or by reading?
-- Anne Oelke Library Media Specialist pK-12 Cambria-Friesland School District Cambria, WI. mailto:cflibrary at cf.k12.wi.usReceived on Mon 03 Mar 2008 01:14:49 PM CST
