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As children are spending more and more time watching TV, playing video games, and using the internet, where will reading fall when we become teachers.  Will a switch to media use be necessary in the classroom?  What kind of reading … Continue reading →

It is true that English assignments in schools aren’t keeping up with the changing world.  Forget English assignments; the most modern news I received in history classes took me up to the end of World War II before we ran … Continue reading →

Hayles defines “deep attention” as the “cognitive” ability to concentrate on one particular task at a time, often for long periods of time.  Contrastingly, “hyper attention” is the skill that allows a person to mentally multi-task, “switching focus rapidly” on … Continue reading →

I mentioned something in class about this link, and so if you’re inclined to absurdism and internet humor, here you go: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-15-best-quotes-from-justin-biebers-autobiogra

Hey everyone! If you’re curious about the idea from Clay Shirky that Miller references in “Reading in Slow Motion,” you can read more about it here: http://www.herecomeseverybody.org/2008/04/looking-for-the-mouse.html There’s an updated, more polished version in his book, Cognitive Surplus, but the concepts … Continue reading →

I am very excited and intrigued by Miller’s teaching philosophy, but it certainly raises a lot of applicability questions.  It seems like there are myriad positives to reading only one text for a class, allowing for the expansion of thought into … Continue reading →

Do we agree with this? This class is  reading intensive and blatatenly going against Miller’s “Reading in Slow Motion,” who states that his classes only meet once a week for three hours and are only assigned fifteen to twenty pages. In … Continue reading →

In the article entitled “Reading in Slow Motion”, Richard Miller discusses the process of research. He distinctly labels two different perceptions of research: experiential and procedural (6). One of Miller’s main goals through his class is to get his students … Continue reading →

Miller writes, towards the end of “Reading In Slow Motion” that “writers have long dreamed of being able to bring the other arts into the reading experience. Now that a laptop is a movie studio, a recording company, an atelier, … Continue reading →

After reading Carr’s article last week, a number of us expressed a fear of being or becoming a “fast and efficient” student, lacking the capacity for engaged thinking and thorough reading.  Although Miller’s article doesn’t offer a full on societal … Continue reading →