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12 Jul 15
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Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online. Like a lot of Web surfers, she clicks on links posted on social networks, reads a few sentences, looks for exciting words, and then grows restless, scampering off to the next page she probably won’t commit to.
“I give it a few seconds — not even minutes — and then I’m moving again,” says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University.
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“It’s like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking in what they say,” she confessed. “When I realize what’s happening, I have to go back and read again and again.”
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To cognitive neuroscientists, Handscombe’s experience is the subject of great fascination and growing alarm. Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.
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“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing,” said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.”
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Word lovers and scientists have called for a “slow reading” movement, taking a branding cue from the “slow food” movement.
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12 Jun 15
Sarah E"Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia."
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“slow reading” movement
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“The brain is plastic its whole life span,” Wolf said. “The brain is constantly adapting.”
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The brain was not designed for reading
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bility to remember where key information was in a book simply by the layout
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“When you try to read a novel,” he said, “it’s almost like we’re not built to read them anymore, as bad as that sounds.”
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“My worry is we will lose the ability to express or read this convoluted prose. Will we become Twitter brains?”
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intriguing research
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potential for a bi-literate brain
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ability again to slow down
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Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online.
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07 Mar 15
Candy BoyerApril 2014 - Washington Post - ARTICLE with links AND an interesting 10 part slide show on "If there are stages of grief and steps to recovery, isn't the act of reading a complicated, evolving thing over time? Cartoonist Lynda Barry, one of scores of writers at the National Book Festival on Sept. 21-22, certainly thinks so."
- Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online. Like a lot of Web surfers, she clicks on links posted on social networks, reads a few sentences, looks for exciting words, and then grows restless, scampering off to the next page she probably won't commit to.
"I give it a few seconds - not even minutes - and then I'm moving again," says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University.
But it's not just online anymore. She finds herself behaving the same way with a novel. -
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“It’s like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking in what they say,
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When I realize what’s happening, I have to go back and read again and again.”
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The brain is the innocent bystander in this new world. It just reflects how we live.
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10 Feb 15
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To cognitive neuroscientists, Handscombe’s experience is the subject of great fascination and growing alarm.
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Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online.
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“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing,” said Maryanne Wolf, a Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist and the author of “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.”
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Time spent online — on desktop and mobile devices — was expected to top five hours per day in 2013 for U.S. adults, according to eMarketer, which tracks digital behavior. That’s up from three hours in 2010.
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comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper
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There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
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The brain was not designed for reading. There are no genes for reading like there are for language or vision. But spurred by the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Phoenician alphabet, Chinese paper and, finally, the Gutenberg press, the brain has adapted to read.
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Reading in print even gave us a remarkable ability to remember where key information was in a book simply by the layout, researchers said.
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The Internet is different. With so much information, hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly.
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Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade when dealing with other mediums as well.
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Several English department chairs from around the country have e-mailed her to say their students are having trouble reading the classics.
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“My worry is we will lose the ability to express or read this convoluted prose. Will we become Twitter brains?”
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Already, there is some intriguing research that looks at that question. A 2012 Israeli study of engineering students — who grew up in the world of screens — looked at their comprehension while reading the same text on screen and in print when under time pressure to complete the task.
The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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“We can’t turn back,” Wolf said. “We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age. It’s both.
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21 Jan 15
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Time spent online — on desktop and mobile devices — was expected to top five hours per day in 2013 for U.S. adults, according to eMarketer, which tracks digital behavior. That’s up from three hours in 2010.
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Word lovers and scientists have called for a “slow reading” movement, taking a branding cue from the “slow food” movement
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hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly. This is nonlinear reading, and it has been documented in academic studies.
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“In a book, there are no graphics or links to keep you on track,”
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t’s easier to follow links, he thinks, than to keep track of so many clauses in page after page of long paragraphs.
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We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age. It’s both. We have to ask the question: What do we want to preserve?”
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If the rise of nonstop cable TV news gave the world a culture of sound bites, the Internet, Wolf said, is bringing about an eye byte culture
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Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences between online and print reading — comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper
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“I’m not kidding: I couldn’t do it,” she said. “It was torture getting through the first page. I couldn’t force myself to slow down so that I wasn’t skimming, picking out key words, organizing my eye movements to generate the most information at the highest speed
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Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade when dealing with other mediums as well.
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The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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There is potential for a bi-literate brain
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I found my ability again to slow down, savor and think.”
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“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth proces
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The brain is the innocent bystander in this new world. It just reflects how we live
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The brain was not designed for reading
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15 Jan 15
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Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences between online and print reading — comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper — and are grappling with what these differences could mean not only for enjoying the latest Pat Conroy novel but for understanding difficult material at work and school. There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
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Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways — one page led to the next page, and so on. Sure, there might be pictures mixed in with the text, but there didn’t tend to be many distractions. Reading in print even gave us a remarkable ability to remember where key information was in a book simply by the layout, researchers said. We’d know a protagonist died on the page with the two long paragraphs after the page with all that dialogue.
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“We’re spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling and jumping through text that when we sit down with a novel, your daily habits of jumping, clicking, linking is just ingrained in you,” said Andrew Dillon, a University of Texas professor who studies reading. “We’re in this new era of information behavior, and we’re beginning to see the consequences of that.”
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“When you try to read a novel,” he said, “it’s almost like we’re not built to read them anymore, as bad as that sounds.”
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“I give it a few seconds — not even minutes — and then I’m moving again,” says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University.
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mscolleencarneyOur brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits affecting our non-digital reading
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It’s like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking in what they say,” she confessed. “When I realize what’s happening, I have to go back and read again and again.
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The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly and that the differences should be dealt with in education, particularly with school-aged children. There are advantages to both ways of reading. There is potential for a bi-literate brain.
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We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age. It’s both. We have to ask the question: What do we want to preserve?”
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Like a lot of Web surfers, she clicks on links posted on social networks, reads a few sentences, looks for exciting words, and then grows restless, scampering off to the next page she probably won’t commit to.
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But it’s not just online anymore. She finds herself behaving the same way with a nove
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I give it a few seconds — not even minutes — and then I’m moving again,” says Handscombe, a 35-year-old graduate student in creative writing at American University.
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Tess AlfonsinOur brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits with a big impact on non-digital reading
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congerjan CongerOur brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits with a big impact on non-digital reading
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eswar srinivasan"Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online."
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Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.
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There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
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The brain was not designed for reading.
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the brain has adapted to read.
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Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways — one page led to the next page
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“We’re spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling and jumping through text that when we sit down with a novel, your daily habits of jumping, clicking, linking is just ingrained in you,” said Andrew Dillon, a University of Texas professor who studies reading
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discovered that he was having trouble reading long sentences with multiple, winding clauses full of background information. Online sentences tend to be shorter, and the ones containing complicated information tend to link to helpful background material
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Several English department chairs from around the country have e-mailed her to say their students are having trouble reading the classics.
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A 2012 Israeli study of engineering students — who grew up in the world of screens — looked at their comprehension while reading the same text on screen and in print when under time pressure to complete the task.
The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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There are advantages to both ways of reading. There is potential for a bi-literate brain.
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Sherri LibrarianReading is different online than off, experts say http://t.co/i7seNYASbC via @washingtonpost #tlchat #edchat #reading
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Digital VersionOur brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits with a big impact on non-digital reading
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Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say
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Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online
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There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills
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Reading in print even gave us a remarkable ability to remember where key information was in a book simply by the layout, researchers said.
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students are having trouble reading the classics.
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A 2012 Israeli study of engineering students — who grew up in the world of screens — looked at their comprehension while reading the same text on screen and in print when under time pressure to complete the task.
The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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“We should be simultaneously reading to children from books, giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode, and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age
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Sarah Press"Serious reading takes a hit from online scanning and skimming, researchers say" http://t.co/LZSZiRZYTc #engchat #literacy tl;dr
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Wes BoltonWashington Post article on how the internet is impacting our ability to read and concentrate.
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Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.
“I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing,”
-
Word lovers and scientists have called for a “slow reading” movement, taking a branding cue from the “slow food” movement.
-
Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences between online and print reading — comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper — and are grappling with what these differences could mean not only for enjoying the latest Pat Conroy novel but for understanding difficult material at work and school. There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
-
The brain was not designed for reading. There are no genes for reading like there are for language or vision. But spurred by the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Phoenician alphabet, Chinese paper and, finally, the Gutenberg press, the brain has adapted to read.
Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways — one page led to the next page, and so on. Sure, there might be pictures mixed in with the text, but there didn’t tend to be many distractions.
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The Internet is different. With so much information, hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly. This is nonlinear reading, and it has been documented in academic studies. Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade when dealing with other mediums as well.
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Online sentences tend to be shorter, and the ones containing complicated information tend to link to helpful background material.
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Researchers say that the differences between text and screen reading should be studied more thoroughly and that the differences should be dealt with in education, particularly with school-aged children. There are advantages to both ways of reading. There is potential for a bi-literate brain.
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turkd26Our brains, neuroscientists warn, are developing new circuits with a big impact on non-digital reading
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developing digital brains
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new circuits for skimming
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nformation online.
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competing
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traditional deep reading
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comprehension
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better with paper
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brain
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eflects how we live
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no genes for reading
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brain has adapted to read
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linear
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ability to remember where
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Reading in print
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ey information was in a book simply by the layout,
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brains form shortcuts to deal
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searching for key words
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crolling up and down quickly
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nonlinear reading
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scanning,
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new era of information behavior
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canning for information about one particular aspect of the book,
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“it’s almost like we’re not built to read them anymore, as bad as that sounds.”
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rouble reading long sentences with multiple, winding clauses full of background information.
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Online sentences
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shorter
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complicated information tend to link to helpful background material
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o graphics or links to keep you on track
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The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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giving them print, helping them learn this slower mode,
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steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age.
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read again and again
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competing with traditional deep reading circuitry
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sound bites
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eye byte culture
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she clicks on links posted
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Claire Handscombe has a commitment problem online.
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then grows restless
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reads a few sentences
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concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
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But it’s not just online anymore. She finds herself behaving the same way with a novel.
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like your eyes are passing over the words but you’re not taking in
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brain is constantly adapting.”
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great fascination and growing alarm.
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digital brains with new circuits for skimming
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read Hermann Hesse’s “The Glass Bead Game.”
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superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing,
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skimming, picking out key words, organizing
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nonstop cable TV news
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Internet
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But spurred by
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Egyptian hieroglyphics
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Chinese paper
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Phoenician alphabet
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Gutenberg press,
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Word lovers and scientists have called for a “slow reading” movement,
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battling not just cursory sentence galloping but the constant social network
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didn’t tend to be many distractions.
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differences between online and print reading
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comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper
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We’d know a protagonist died on the page with the two long paragraphs
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brain is the innocent bystander
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brain is plastic
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scanning, searching for key words, scrolling
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Wolf
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her brain was apparently adapting, too.
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I couldn’t do it,” she said
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I was so disgusted
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no genes for reading
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brain was not designed for reading.
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in this new era of information behavior
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brain has adapted to read.
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Before the Internet, the brain read mostly in linear ways
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gave us a remarkable ability to remember
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book club recently read “The Interestings,”
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Internet is different.
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interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts
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nonlinear reading
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just as he might scan for one particular fact on his computer screen
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spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling
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beginning to see the consequences
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even more troubling.
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Brandon Ambrose
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he had missed a number of the book’s key plot points.
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he had been scanning
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Online sentences tend to be shorter
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we’re not built to read them anymore
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try to read a novel
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Ramesh Kurup
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he was having trouble reading long sentences with multiple, winding clauses
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students no longer will or are perhaps incapable of dealing with the convoluted syntax and construction
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Several English department chairs
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say their students are having trouble reading the classics.
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just look, she said, at Twitter and its brisk 140-character declarative sentences.
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Will we become Twitter brains?”
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some intriguing research
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Wolf’s next book will look at what the digital world is doing to the brain,
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particularly interested in comprehension results
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2012 Israeli study
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looked at their comprehension while reading the same text on screen and in print when under time pressure
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students believed they did better on screen
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They were wrong
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learning was better on paper.
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advantages to both ways of reading
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differences should be dealt with in education,
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bi-literate brain
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I have to do this
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should be simultaneously reading to children from books,
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It took me two weeks
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and at the same time steadily increasing their immersion into the technological, digital age
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I had pretty much recovered myself
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Wolf is training her own brain
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I found my ability again to slow down, savor and think.”
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14 Apr 14
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The students believed they did better on screen. They were wrong. Their comprehension and learning was better on paper.
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Équipe École 2.0"Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online. This alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia."
info en anglais document d'information recherche langues lecture lecture à l'écran général
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12 Apr 14
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Humans, they warn, seem to be developing digital brains with new circuits for skimming through the torrent of information online
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his alternative way of reading is competing with traditional deep reading circuitry developed over several millennia.
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Time spent online — on desktop and mobile devices — was expected to top five hours per day in 2013 for U.S. adults, according to eMarketer, which tracks digital behavior. That’s up from three hour
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Researchers are working to get a clearer sense of the differences between online and print reading — comprehension, for starters, seems better with paper — and are grappling with what these differences could mean not only for enjoying the latest Pat Conroy novel but for understanding difficult material at work and school. There is concern that young children’s affinity and often mastery of their parents’ devices could stunt the development of deep reading skills.
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ocent bystander in this new world. It just reflects how we live.
“The brain is plastic its whole life span,” Wolf said. “The brain is constantly adapting.”
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hat I wasn’t skimming, picking out key words, organizing my eye movements to generate the most information at the highest speed. I was so disgusted with myself.”
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The brain was not designed for reading. There are no genes for reading like there are for language or vision. But spurred by the emergence of Egyptian hieroglyphics, the Phoenician alphabet, Chinese paper and, finally, the Gutenberg press, the brain has adapted to read.
-
Reading in print even gave us a remarkable ability to remember where key information was in a book simply by the layout, researchers said.
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With so much information, hyperlinked text, videos alongside words and interactivity everywhere, our brains form shortcuts to deal with it all — scanning, searching for key words, scrolling up and down quickly.
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his is nonlinear reading, and it has been documented in academic studies. Some researchers believe that for many people, this style of reading is beginning to invade when dealing with other mediums as well.
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When you try to read a novel,” he said, “it’s almost like we’re not built to read them anymore, as bad as that sounds.”
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discovered that he was having trouble reading long sentences with multiple, winding clauses full of background information. Online sentences tend to be shorter, and the ones containing complicated information tend to link to helpful background material.
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The students no longer will or are perhaps incapable of dealing with the convoluted syntax and construction of George Eliot and Henry James.”
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