Gardner on "The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.”
Another compelling piece to read and think about for a professional response. Prominent Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner offers his thoughts on the changing nature of literacy. I look forward to hearing some responses from you on this timely op-ed piece from the Washington Post.
The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.
By Howard Gardner
Sunday, February 17, 2008; B01What will happen to reading and writing in our time?
Could the doomsayers be right? Computers, they maintain, are destroying literacy. The signs — students’ declining reading scores, the drop in leisure reading to just minutes a week, the fact that half the adult population reads no books in a year — are all pointing to the day when a literate American culture becomes a distant memory. By contract, optimists foresee the Internet ushering in a new, vibrant participatory culture of words. Will they carry the day?
Maybe neither. Let me suggest a third possibility: Literacy — or an ensemble of literacies — will continue to thrive, but in forms and formats we can’t yet envision.
The End of Literacy? Don’t Stop Reading.
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