I wanted to help kids who were just like me, who had difficulties learning to read, and use the power of books.” That was the seed for wanting to become a teacher. “I had a teacher who let us read real children’s books instead of textbooks. “I did not learn to read until I was in the fifth grade, and children’s books helped me become a reader,” she said. Learning to Readĭay struggled to learn how to read until an insightful teacher introduced her to children’s books. She knows personally how books can change a life. In her office, surrounded by stacks, piles and shelves of books, with book posters on the wall and more piled on the floor, Day bubbles with enthusiasm for these stories. Not until the very last picture do you see his image on a computer screen and realize they meet daily by Skype. Called “Tea with Grandpa,” it’s the story of a little girl who has tea with her kindly looking grandfather every day. Day picks a book off the floor and starts paging through it. “You can teach everything out of a children’s book,” she said, ticking off phonics, parts of speech, grammar, math and art-not to mention technology.Ĭhildren’s books change with the times. Their teaching tool is children’s literature. Now, an associate professor of education at WSU Vancouver for the past 15 years, Day still teaches technology to kids, but she does it through her own students, who are teachers or teachers-in-training. “I knew I had to teach my kids technology.” “I bought my own Apple with my own money and had it in my classroom,” she said. When Deanna Day started teaching elementary school 31 years ago, the only computer in the building was an Apple Macintosh with a tiny screen, used by the school secretary.ĭay could see the future. The best way to teach technology? Look to children's books, Deanna Day says.
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