Relevant sources on Jay Asher

When I came across with the american writer, Jay Asher, I instantly wanted to know more about him. Unfortunately, the information given by Wikipedia wasn’t deep enough to follow his carreer so I decided to seach more about his work.

From his most famous novel, Thirteen reasons why, I found it necessary to analyse which had been his influences or “reasons why” he decanted himself in favour of youth public, instead of adult public. The best way of answering this cuestions was finding an interview made to him, and that is exactly what I got after making some reseaches. This kind of interviews provide a large amount of information about the author that other kind of sources just can’t, such as life experiences or data about their personal motivations and explanations about the novels they’ve written.

The future of Facebook: will people get bored of it?

Nowadays, the massive use of social networks is creating the need of a continuous dependence to it. As can be seen in the statistics of Facebook’s business site, it has “More than 800 million active users” worldwide; it is an absolute successful phenomena, which is gaining even more followers in the last year. For instance, according to a recent research, run by Mary Madden and Kathryn Zickuhr, the amount of social media adult-users has grown significantly in the last year: “(…) among the Boomer-aged segment of internet users ages 50-64, social networking site usage on a typical day grew a significant 60% (from 20% to 32%)”. Hence, ones seen how powerful and popular has the use of social media become, could we think of a future end to them?

George Orwell’s 1984: was it all a ficticious reality?

The novel 1984 was published by the English author George Orwell in 1949. It was made as a prediction of a fictitious future in which the Human Rights would be minimum and the world would be involved in a constant war. The aim os this post is to analyze the impact of this novel; what essential ideas are underlined on it and which of them still reflects nowadays’ world.

Twitter: a good educational tool?

Twitter has been suggested to be an optimus manner for children to learn communication and interaction skills, which any other methods or platforms could never provide us with. Therefore, we would be witnesses of a revolutionary new way of teaching. Now, the question is, is Twitter a really good tool for education?

First of all, let’s analyse what positive aspects have working on Twitter with the youngest students:

What experts appeared to underline the most is children’s literacy development. According to Mike Laurie, a worker of the agency Made by Many in London, taking part in social media helps children to avoid literacy and does increase their ability to express their ideas with grater clarity:

“It stands to reason that children who read and write more are better at reading and writing. And writing blog posts, status updates, text messages, instant messages, and the like all motivate children to read and write. Last month, The National Literacy Trust released the results of a survey of over 3000 children. They observed a correlation between children’s engagement with social media and their literacy. Simply put, social media has helped children become more literate. Indeed, Eurostat recently published a report drawing a correlation between education and online activity, which found that online activity increased with the level of formal activity (socio-economic factors are, of course, potentially at play here as well).”