Boys and School

I thought that this article was interesting, especially since a few of us in class have read Raising Cain. This article is yet another example of why multimodal literacies (visual, print, media, critical, sociocultural, and digital) work better in the classroom, because they ensure that all students will make some form of connection to the content. The truth is that children, especially boys, need room to move. Confining students, anyone for that matter, to a room and talking at them rather than with them can be detrimental to one’s health.

Michael Gurian, author of The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in Life and School, believes that boys are better at spatial- mechanical tasks and perform better in school when they are active. The article focuses on creating lessons for either boys or girls, but I think that if teachers incorporate audio or visual or digital forms of instruction that many children that were once lost in the classroom will have the opportunity to engage in the lessons.