Reader, Come Home

The Reading Brain in a Digital World

De: Maryanne Wolf

Narrado por: Kirsten Potter

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A Reexamination of How We Read Today

How has living in this fast paced digital world changed our reading habits and our ability to read deeply? Is literacy declining? Or are our brains changing and adapting to new ways of absorbing the continuous flood of data bombarding our eyes through a myriad of screens and smart devices? These are just some of the questions tackled by the author.

Essential reading

An essential read for any college student, parent, or educator. All educators, regardless of the age of their students, will find the content indispensable for this digital age of learners.

Essential!

If you consider yourself a reader past or present, you should read this book and reflect on the changes most readers are experiencing as our attention is directed at too many things and overwhelmed by a barrage of information. Deep reading is declining and it is up to us to sound the alarm and make sure future generations are exposed and instructed to read abundantly on print, as well as digital mediums.

Beautiful Prose, Engaging Arguments

Put your thinking cap on for the duration.
This writer/researcher describes pathways in the brain created and used when reading print. The pathways created and used when reading online or computer text differ. Our thinking patterns are subject to change with the change in medium for readers. A must reader for teachers.

Listen, then go to work

I thought teachers knew how to teach reading. I recall my son's sense of shame having to leave class to go to reading lab in grade school. I read to my kids, talked a lot. They had good speaking vocabularies. My daughter's problems were more difficult. I served on the school systems Special Education Advisory Committee, supported teachers, believed in IEPs, but as a single parent could only do so much. They went from Virginia to Rhode Island to live with their mother at ages 10 and 12. Was there progress? Not so much. My daughter finished high school in Texas. Counselors all the way, no particular improvement in reading skill, but verbal communication was fine. Did their children do better? Two dropouts. Now great grandkids. Maybe I can get to the parents. Truly bothered by what has passed for education in the USA. A Boomer, 1946 born, I had a reading mother and a great public school system in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. Shallow thinking has become dominant? Over entertained and under educated. Take this message to heart and do what you can. Consider to finding a new message for these times. Maryanne is speaking with the wisdom of a prophet, warning inspired by The Creator, God, Allah, or whatever name you religion uses, or universal consciousness of science provides for this evolutionary experimental world. The greatest abuse is to not educate said a wise sage to me long ago. Without reading skill, language decoding, education has little foundation on which to build.