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Saved by 12 people (-1 private), first by anonymouse user on 2008-02-09
- Gingerfoot on 2009-05-27 - Tags literacy , culture , research , reading , decline
- Timjacob on 2009-05-01 - Tags books , reading , toread
- Lynnejones on 2008-08-26 - Tags literacy , trends
- Lajost on 2008-08-25 - Tags literacy , digitalnatives , l@jost
- Hrheingold on 2008-08-24 - Tags literacy
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Dawn of the digital natives. If you believe a scary US report, reading is on the decline. But, says Steven Johnson, it completely fails to consider the amount that we do every day on our computers
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if people are reading less, why haven't scores dropped more dramatically? The answer gets to the most significant sleight of hand of the NEA study: its studies are heavily biased towards words on a printed page
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A recent study by the British Library of onscreen research activities found that "new forms of 'reading' are emerging as users 'power browse' ... "
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"Whatever the benefits of newer electronic media, they provide no measurable substitute for the intellectual and personal development initiated and sustained by frequent reading."
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The only reason the intellectual benefits are not measurable is that they haven't been measured yet. There have been almost no studies that have looked at the potential positive impact of electronic media.
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I challenge the NEA to track the economic status of obsessive novel readers and obsessive computer programmers over the next 10 years. Which group will have more professional success in this climate?
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internet users generally are better educated and more interested politically. And among young people under 30, use of the internet to learn about the campaign has a greater impact on knowledge than does level of education.
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