Online Assignment

I chose to look at the articles Addressing a Case of P.A. Fatigue: Officials Try to Trim Morning Announcements and U.S. Department of Education, First Book® and Townsend Press Launch 2007 Adolescent Readers Initiative.

I selected the article Addressing a Case of P.A. Fatigue because I feel like a lot of instructional time is wasted through excessive announcements. I was hoping this article offered some sort of alternative way to get around using a P.A. system. I think educators too often rely on the P.A. system because it is a quick way of making announcements, but then people abuse the system by calling students out of class or announcing meetings, etc. These things could be done through an email or a phone call. These were the only alternative listed. I mean the P.A. system is great in case of emergency, but when announcements take 15 minutes it is simply a waste of time. I agree with the author of this article – just pick up the phone or send an email so that the announcements don’t interrupt instruction.

I selected the article about the adolescent reader’s initiative because I believe students do not read as much as they should. Students too often rely on media for their information, and the media is controlled by the FCC and they can censor information. There is less/no censoring in books and students need to begin to get some information from a variety of books. Unfortunately, books are expensive and so students from lower income families find it more difficult to purchase books. I am impacted by this because First Book, a publishing company, is donating over 500,000 books to lower income school districts for their students to rent from the library. This is a wonderful idea because these students deserve the same opportunities as other students from wealthier school districts.