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Young people “aren’t as troubled as some of us older folks are by reading that
doesn’t go in a line,” said Rand J. Spiro, a professor of educational psychology
at Michigan
State University who is studying reading practices on the Internet. “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.” -
Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of
empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic
argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words,
pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers.
And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or
sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best. - 2 more annotations...
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Stephen JenkinsOne of the readers is named Sims. heh.
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ing details of life in the concentration camps. âI was trying to imagine this and I was like, I canât do this,â she said. âIt was just so â wow.â
Hoping to keep up the momentum, Ms. Konyk brought home another book, âSilverboy,â a fantasy novel. Nadia made it through o
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