Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Aug 08
  

  Alexandre Enkerli
  • linear
  • I did not see
  • Stupid

    • Funny how such provocative titles prove different points using different perspectives.
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  • the Web was changing

    • Determinism, again.
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  • my capacity
  • related to higher academic performance

    • The type of academic performance measured in those circumstances is based on a very specific social class in which reading novels is valued.
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  • similar to what schools demand already
  • new reading skills
  • neither taught nor evaluated in school
  • they’re reading
  • our brain will try and deal with it
  • rely on books
  • enriching
  • cover a lot more
  • different points of view
  • pedigreed academics
  • But you would weigh that

    • Very efficient statement about critical thinking used in reading.
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  • interaction with fellow reader
  • locating information quickly and accurately, corroborating findings on multiple sites
  • Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem

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  Alexandre Enkerli on 2008-08-04
  Funny how such provocative titles prove different points using different perspectives.
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  Alexandre Enkerli on 2008-08-04
  Determinism, again.
• 
  Alexandre Enkerli on 2008-08-04
  The type of academic performance measured in those circumstances is based on a very specific social class in which reading novels is valued.
• 
  Alexandre Enkerli on 2008-08-04
  Very efficient statement about critical thinking used in reading.

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