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To: eartick

School libraries have pretty much been replaced by ‘learning centers’, a bank of computers.


11 posted on 12/23/2021 4:52:58 AM PST by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: robowombat
K-12 school libraries have always been slim pickings in books for recreational reading. It sucks though that this slim collection appears commonly now to be packed with crap books that aim to indoctrinate instead of stimulate the imagination.

I slipped into being a voracious reader towards 5th grade or so. The book fair with cheap paperback fiction hooked me in then I graduated to the town library that I rode my bicycle to. Pirates, space aliens and cowboys are still my favorite recreational reading. Lol!

Fast forward to college and reading most anything was not a problem for me wrt to mechanics so to speak. I could focus on understanding, learning the content.

In my 1st semester of college in 1971, I had my first exposure to a computer “learning center”. It was a fiasco math class. 1 hour a week in class and 3-6 hours a week sitting at a computer terminal. I learned practically nothing. I was so frustrated that I enrolled in a different university. When in the Arts & Sciences college at university 2, a computer learning center was used for the Spanish classes for reading comprehension and pronunciation. This worked for me.

This reminds me…. I just moved to a new town in a new state. I need to visit the county library to check out their fiction section and get a library card.

12 posted on 12/23/2021 6:54:31 AM PST by Hootowl99
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