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"The following are a few of the reasons students might be reluctant to read. It is by no means an exhaustive list. There are some excellent researchers and teachers who have been exploring this topic in-depth. However, I would like to focus on four different trends that I noticed as a middle school teacher and explore of a few ideas for how to address these issues." Via John Evans 
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Soon after Maryanne Wolf published “Proust and the Squid,” a history of the science and the development of the reading brain from antiquity to the twenty-first century, she began to receive letters from readers. Hundreds of them. While the backgrounds of the writers varied, a theme began to emerge: the more reading moved online, the less students seemed to understand." Via Beth Dichter, Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight,
August 1, 2014 11:44 AM
Interesting article in the New Yorker on another digital controversy. 
Dr. Helen Teague's curator insight,
August 3, 2014 9:36 AM
Do students retain more information when they read from books rather than from digital devices? Does reading online present challenges due to distractions? Do students need to be taught skills to become better online readers?
Ruby Day's curator insight,
August 3, 2014 5:21 PM
Studies show we are not reading as effectively online as we are with hard copies. This highlights the need for tools to help us read deeper online - e.g annotation type tools. This links to an interesting stuy of year 5 students using collaborative annotation software demonstrating higher performance than the control group's' paper based annotation. |
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'Last year, four "all-star" educators sat down to examine nine popular digital resources specifically intended for improving reading and writing in the classroom ..."
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