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Matt McCormickReadings for Paper3
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Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this suburb southwest of Cleveland.
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Danuta WoloszynowiczNYT article on reading online
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Lennie Symessome argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
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Tom McHaleBEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest.
Nadia Konyk, 15, has a small book collection but prefers reading online.
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Michel Bauwenssome argue that hours spent prowling Internet are of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans & destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books. others say Internet has created a new kind of reading
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28 Jul 08
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matthew solleIs the Internet the enemy of reading, or has it created a new kind of reading, one that society should not discount?
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As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.
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some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare better when they begin looking for digital-age jobs.
Some Web evangelists say children should be evaluated for their proficiency on the Internet just as they are tested on their print reading comprehension.
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“That’s a good thing because the world doesn’t go in a line, and the world isn’t organized into separate compartments or chapters.”
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27 Jul 08
Nicole EngardThis is the first in a series of articles that will look at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read.
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Howard Rheingoldsome argue that hours spent prowling Internet are of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans & destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books. others say Internet has created a new kind of reading
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As teenagers’ scores on standardized reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent prowling the Internet are the enemy of reading — diminishing literacy, wrecking attention spans and destroying a precious common culture that exists only through the reading of books.
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But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write.
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Starting next year, some countries will participate in new international assessments of digital literacy, but the United States, for now, will not.
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Clearly, reading in print and on the Internet are different. On paper, text has a predetermined beginning, middle and end, where readers focus for a sustained period on one author’s vision. On the Internet, readers skate through cyberspace at will and, in effect, compose their own beginnings, middles and ends.
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According to Department of Education data cited in the report, just over a fifth of 17-year-olds said they read almost every day for fun in 2004, down from nearly a third in 1984. Nineteen percent of 17-year-olds said they never or hardly ever read for fun in 2004, up from 9 percent in 1984. (It was unclear whether they thought of what they did on the Internet as “reading.”)
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