If Everthing Bad is Good For You, then Libraries Need to be Willing to Take a Walk on the Wild Side

One thing libraries, librarians and educators can learn from Johnson's book, and from history, for that matter, is not to judge the educational merits of new media too quickly. It takes time to see how the industry develops new media and for a response to new technologies to be fully understood. From children's response to a new media, we can learn more about their learning styles and how best to teach them. By being open-minded to new technolgies, however frivolous they may seem to us at first blush, we can provide more authentic learning opportunities for children and at the same time ressusitate young patrons' interest in our libraries.