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Article: Lively language arts: the digital age invades the English classroom.(A LOOK AT ...)
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- Multimedia & Internet@Schools
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- September 1, 2006
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New and exciting uses of digital technology in language arts are appearing all the time--a very good thing in view of the digital nature of the lives of today's K-12 students. As we all know, the amount of time that students spend with television, cell phones, iPods, gaming technologies, the Internet, computers, and other electronic technologies is stunning.
Contrast that with the long struggle that language arts teachers, especially at the secondary level, continue to have as they work to make language arts relevant to students' lives. The digital world is taking students ever further from traditional language arts teaching. The methods used in today's language ...