How to teach kids who flip between book and screen
Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach.
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Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach.
Digital texts can be useful for teaching certain foundational skills, but they do not equally develop cognitive patience and slower, deeper processes in the brain that serve comprehension, retention and focus.
Reading or listening to a text are distinct experiences and serve different purposes
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Nan Z. Da teaches literature at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of “Disambiguation, a Tragedy,’’ in n+1 Issue 38. Elaine Auyoung is an associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of When Fiction Feels Real: Representation and the Reading Mind, published by Oxford in 2018. Jane Hu is a PhD candidate in English and Film & Media at UC-Berkeley. Her writing has appeared in venues like Textual Practice, Modernism/modernity, Victorian Studies, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Bookforum.