The fate of newspapers in education
Do you remember when you used to bring the newspaper to school and use it for current events? Do you remember the Newspapers In Education (NIE) programs where your school would get bundles of newspapers every day and you would use them to follow current events?
Well according to this post over at the The Best of the Read/Write Web, the future of newspapers looks very bleak. Most people these days are getting their news from the internet and cable networks it seems. And …even if teachers had the newspapers for their classrooms, they are too busy covering the curriculum and state standards to take time out for frivolous current events.
It looks like the good old days of looking forward to kicking back in the easy chair and reading the paper to unwind after a day at the office is a thing of the past.
Not to wax nostalgic or anything – but there is something relaxing about looking through the newspaper instead of squinting at my Blackberry or staring at a monitor. Sigh.
Time marches on.
I agree in point with two items:
1 They are certainly in big trouble – part because of technology and part because someone in that business failed to read Good to Great. Changing with the times happened but way too late.
2 I love the morning newspaper, even the one in my “neck of the wood” that I see as way inferior to other areas, Denver, New York, Miami, Chicago etc…. for me it is theraputic and educational. I get the same knowledge on line but not the appreciation and motivation to read it.
With advance website technology – maybe the Geeksquad can re-produce the Dispatch’s site to look like a newspaper where i can turn the pages with my fingers, hear the sound of the changing pages, then touch-zoom to the article i want to read. Hmmm…naaahhh