Ever bemoaned the demise of the printed word and wondered whether our students are reading as well in the digital age? This scientific article suggests you do have cause for concern but only with some types of reading and as ebook technologies race to shorten the gap, asks the questions “But why, one could ask, are we working so hard to make reading with new technologies like tablets and e-readers so similar to the experience of reading on the very ancient technology that is paper? Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?”
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Dear Helen
I am currently reading Al Gore’s latest book “The Future” and I was very interested to read the following “The demand for content on the Internet is also linked to a significant rise in reading-a faint echo of the “big bang” of literacy that accompanied the creation of the Gutenberg Galaxy.” (p57). Gore goes on to say that since the decline in reading following the introduction of television, there has been a three-fold increase in the past thirty years due to the dominant content on the Internet being text. I think it would be interesting to know if people are reading DIFFERENTLY as the research seems to indicate that they are definitely reading more.
Kind regards
Cathy