Readings for 4/4

The Kymes article was really interesting to me because I feel like it is such a step in to the new age of education and is introducing new ways to keep learning fun and updated. I think the idea of introducing the idea of skimming or scanning text to students could actually be beneficial. I think that students will become "trained" to target key information in a shorter amount of time as opposed to reading the text word for word, but still getting the same level of information. I just think this whole idea is somewhat ironic because I feel that there have been so many classes where we were discouraged from skimming or scanning text because every word was so incredibly important, but now it is actually being suggested as a way to read text, along with placing all of the important information in either a direct heading or all towards the beginning of the text. I could see how this would be beneficial to readers because I feel that most people tend to just look for the "important stuff" to begin with and now it will be much easier for them to access it with the new set-up. It makes me question how models such as this could effect things such as teaching students how to write good stories. We have always been taught that you save your solid point for the end and that you need to intertwine your details throughout the story. With this new approach, students might be confused as to why teachers are enforcing a "different" writing style than what they are used to seeing. They see no use for the way teachers want them to write because if they do not see it in the real world, then why should they learn how to perform that way? This blog post has taken a turn towards technology, but could technology have such a large effect on students lives and eventually schooling that it completely alters what we as future teachers have learned all through our own schooling?