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ing details of life in the concentration camps. âI was trying to imagine this and I was like, I canât do this,â she said. âIt was just so â wow.â
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Young people “aren’t as troubled as some of us older folks are by reading that
doesn’t go in a line,” said Rand J. Spiro, a professor of educational psychology
at Michigan
State University who is studying reading practices on the Internet. “That’s
a good thing because the world doesn’t go in a line, and the world isn’t
organized into separate compartments or chapters.”
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Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of
empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic
argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words,
pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers.
And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or
sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.
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Children are clearly spending more time on the Internet. In a study of 2,032
representative 8- to 18-year-olds, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that
nearly half used the Internet on a typical day in 2004, up from just under a
quarter in 1999. The average time these children spent online on a typical day
rose to one hour and 41 minutes in 2004, from 46 minutes in 1999.
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Some scientists worry that the fractured experience typical of the Internet
could rob developing readers of crucial skills. “Reading a book, and taking the
time to ruminate and make inferences and engage the imaginational processing, is
more cognitively enriching, without doubt, than the short little bits that you
might get if you’re into the 30-second digital mode,” said Ken Pugh, a cognitive
neuroscientist at Yale
who has studied brain scans of children reading.
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