Teaching to reach every single student

After being immersed in being trained to teach reading in the content area, both through a week long program at Columbia University’s Teachers College and a grad school course, I have been throwing myself wastefully into reading, and reading novels in particular.

I am in the middle (first fifth, actually) a book that is terrific and addresses literacy and learning with new technologies. It is called Rainbows End and the author is Vernor Vinge. It takes place in the year 2025. The two main characters (so far) are an adolescent and a septuagenarian newly treated (mostly successfully) for Alzheimer’s. Both are students in a middle school in San Diego and both are using their own approaches to the incredibly networked technologies making up life in the near future.

What strikes me so far (beyond the compelling plot and characters) is how Vinge describes the complete use of technology in the classroom.

Here is a link to an NPR story about Vinge and the merging of people with technology.

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