I should start by saying that I have never been a huge fan of reading. And perhaps I'm going against the grain here, but the constant "noise" of my life is something that I take comfort in. Like Matt pointed out earlier, the difficult time spent looking inward can exposes "deep inner recesses", much the same as I felt writing our introductory paper. I would say it's more important to instill a comfort with reading in students, rather than a love. Some students, myself included, will never fully enjoy the task. For me, it took reading something that really hooked me in to catapult me into picking up a book on my own.
There has been a bit of technology bashing in these chapters we read for today. It seems as if the two cannot coexist. I think that rather than this view, the two can reinforce each other...if only in minor ways. While I do think that television has dumbed down some things, it also exposes the majority of watchers to ideas that may have otherwise never been stumbled upon.
While Jackie stresses a need for instilling a love of books, at least as I've taken here comments, to curb the persistent television watching, I think it's more a need for prioritizing...an idea that even I struggle with from time to time.
“It’s the twenty-first century for God’s sake. We don’t have time to focus" (9R, 5)
To that I'd say, yes we do...we invented TiVo didn't we?
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