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Re: Google is the new nonfiction
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From: Maia Cheli-Colando <maia_at_littlefolktales.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:29:28 -0700
Greg,
I'm sorry for your experience! It is hard when our kids don't share our passions.
But I *do* see kids flocking to nonfiction. The problem I see isn't in getting them to read nonfiction, the challenge is in getting kids to crave new branches of nonfiction -- new ideas outside their established areas of interest. Trust me, the dancers I know eat up dance books, and the bio kids read Science Magazine. But how do we create in them an appetite for the process of learning things they didn't already know existed?
Cheers, Maia
-- Maia Cheli-Colando Arcata, Humboldt Bay, California -- blogging at http://www.littlefolktales.org/wordpress -- -- or drop in on Facebook! --
Received on Tue 12 Oct 2010 02:29:28 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:29:28 -0700
Greg,
I'm sorry for your experience! It is hard when our kids don't share our passions.
But I *do* see kids flocking to nonfiction. The problem I see isn't in getting them to read nonfiction, the challenge is in getting kids to crave new branches of nonfiction -- new ideas outside their established areas of interest. Trust me, the dancers I know eat up dance books, and the bio kids read Science Magazine. But how do we create in them an appetite for the process of learning things they didn't already know existed?
Cheers, Maia
-- Maia Cheli-Colando Arcata, Humboldt Bay, California -- blogging at http://www.littlefolktales.org/wordpress -- -- or drop in on Facebook! --
Received on Tue 12 Oct 2010 02:29:28 PM CDT
