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Blog Entry 55 of 66 What can you do to motivate your children to read
What can you do to motivate your children to read regularly? As parents, we know that reading is important, we feel frustrated if our children don't like to read. Today there are many forces in children's lives that pull them away from reading — television, video games, and after-school activities — what can you do to motivate your children to read regularly? The key is to learn more about your child's interests, then to tap into those interests. Suggest books, magazines, and articles that relate to those topics. Scout for things your children might like to read. Use their interests and hobbies as starting points. Notice what attracts your children's attention, even if they only look at the pictures. Then build on that interest; read a short selection aloud, or simply bring home more information on the same subject. Sit down and spend time reading about trains or fairies, whatever your child’s passion is. see more at:http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Denver-ParentSchool-Connection-Examiner~y2009m3d8-What-can-you-do-to-motivate-your-children-to-read-regularly

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Sergey Brin, Google and Education

Article Contributed on: 10/29/2009 9:30:46 AM

Dan Fost of The Los Angeles Times reported that: today, "Mr. Brin spoke on his ideas on how the educational system should be improved. Mr. Brin Advocated putting all text books on computers."
I agree that students should be put in touch with "real-world problems" and the curriculum should include "computer science," and argue, it does.
This week I have been involved with classrooms implementing an on-line assessment practice. Mr. Brin would be surprised the teaching that goes behind what is a very easy process. We teachers, do have buy in, most of the students want to use computers. The problem becomes the very skill of reading what is on the page, processing, and making sense out of the text on the computer. It is creating meaning from a text, on a computer, students need to know how to fix their comprehension strategies when they get lost, how to learn for themselves. We have many learners some are not visual learners, the programs with auditory implementations are a help, and our kinesthetic learners can't sit at a keyboard too long.
As Goggle steps into the field of education know that teachers welcome technology, we embrace Google Apps, Education Edition and see the value. We start computer instruction in Kindergarten. Not only are there computer labs, computers in the classrooms but carts of laptops, we email, research, blog, create, and teach we have embraced technology.
As educators we open the doors to "universal access to all the world's information." However, opening the doors to technology with out the skills needed to sift through the vast amount of information will do nothing to educate our future workforce.
Students need first, to learn how to read for meaning. This never ends, as the reading gets more complex we need adjust our style of comprehension. Never has reading been more important. ...
http://www.examiner.com/x-2016-Parenting--Education-Examiner~y2009m10d29-Sergey-Brin-Google-and-Education

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