Technology gets the best of me.

As the day progressed I started to HATE technology even more. I have a "problem-solving" paper due for English class in 2 weeks and outline and 2 annotates sources are due Monday. So being a proactive student I go to the Library after class and I start a online search. I have changed topics 4 times but since i had no "solid, up to date" information I allowed myself that freedom. After today listening to NPR's Dianna Ream Show on the drive into class it settled my topic. Last week they talked about a book by Peggy Orenstein: called "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" it was about Disney Princesses and the Marketing at todays girls. Well today on the show they had a whole panel on there talking about Forced commercialize in the schools and selling ad space to make money. From advertisers on on the tables and lockers to big name sponsorship of sports teams. They** (see names at end of blog) were talking talking baout it selling our kids innocence was worth it. Did the equal out or are we setting our kids up for failure?

So here I am at the library looking for articles and books these people have written to make then Subject matter experts. It is NPR after all and they cant be clogging the airways with anyone thats what commerical radio is for. I found gobs. NONE of which my school library has or can get in less then 2 weeks. I was able to find a few Ebooks and EBSCO articles but they (*I learn later when I get home) can NOT be accessed unless I am on the schools network. Not even remote access like through the schools library portal. 

Luckly for me I have a LOVE of the physical feel of a book and stalked the stacks till I found a few books (7 in fact) that in one way or another tackled my subject. So I hope skimming through them will give me a jumping point on what is the problem and how i would fix it. 

So while Technology may of gotten the best of me today, there is always tomorrow and the Printed word. 

*** please note I put a New quiz up.. vote please.. according to last poll of 7 votes, 2votes go to quit, 2 votes to why as me and 3 votes to stick with it.

 

Brett Pawlowski

president of DeHavilland Associates and publisher of the K-12 Partnership Report newsletter.

Fawn Johnson

education correspondent with National Journal

Michelle Paris-Farid

Executive Director of New Leaders for New Schools in Washington, D.C.

Susan Linn

Consuming kids : the hostile takeover of childhood

Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of "Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood."