“On the Internet, you can hear from a bunch of people,” said Zachary, who will attend Columbia University this fall. “They may not be pedigreed academics. They may be someone in their shed with a conspiracy theory. But you would weigh that.”
do they???
Because this is the type of reading we value, and so it is the type of reading that is the most required in schools. Non-fiction, and information texts, beyond the textbooks (which are horrible) is overlooked.
- Mary Ann Harlan
on 2008-07-27
The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.
I worry about this in returning to school, but I don't blame it on the 'net more lack of practice, and society as a whole
recently published study of online research habits,
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They found that people using the sites exhibited “a form of skimming activity,” hopping from one source to another and rarely returning to any source they’d already visited.