Educational Fast Food

The new buzz is how schools need to get with the technology. Dreck, shit, here we go again. Educational administrators are either naive or dukes of deception. If we adopt the models the computer consultants are proposing, we are condemning generations of students to educational junk food. Textbooks are bad enough, with their ready made convenience. Now we are buying the idea that everything you need to read can be read online. Because so much of our culture is transmitted orally, through stories, songs, radio, we are in danger of destroying live education. One of my students told me that her generation is so tv and computer based that they don't even think of listening to radio. Now I realize that I need to "teach" radio listening.