Lisa Nielsen’s, 12 Reasons to Ditch the Pen – Why It’s No Longer Mightiest Against the Sword, really struck a nerve with me. I am the person she is complaining about to a T. What is funniest about it is that I was the fastest typist in my high school typing class and can rattle out about 100+ words a minute without batting an eye – but I still refuse to give up my pen! I take notes long-hand, record my grades in a gradebook and then transfer them to my web-based gradebook, I even write the rough draft of a research paper.
I am totally the person that refuses to buy a Kindle or a Nook. I love the smell and feel of a book and the quality of the illustrations. My parents scoff at my “dead tree books” because they both have e-Readers and think it is funny that I refuse to capitulate. Long live books and pens!! (I did enter grades this week on the computer WITHOUT first entering them in my gradebook – there may be hope for me yet.)
Nielsen, L. (2010, November 1). 12 reasons to ditch the pen-why it's no longer mightiest against the sword. Retrieved November 5, 2010 from http://www.techlearning.com/article/34122.
Mrs. Piechocki,
ReplyDeleteNo! Don't go to the other side. I too, am a pen and paper kind of person. I just left the library with five books in hand. As I walked to my car, people turned back and gave me this crazy look. (I guess they all have Kindles or ebooks).
I know Kindles are convenient and Earth Friendly but I love hard/soft cover books. There is nothing like reading the last 'page' of a book, closing it and wishing that you could start it all over again. And yes, typing is faster and sometimes neater than writing but I think that physically writing something is more personal. (call me crazy)
Keep writing rough drafts, penciling in grades, and curling up with a best selling book.