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Brittney Chambers

Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills, charity warns | Mail... - 1 views

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  • Children who read on iPads or Kindles have weaker literacy skills and are less likely to enjoy it as a pastime, charity warnsSurvey of 35,000 pupils finds majority of youngst
  • ers now read on screenebooks also reducing the number of children who enjoy reading as a pastime 'Children who only read on-screen are significantly less likely to enjoy reading and less likely to be strong readers', National Literacy Trust says
  • Children who read on an iPad or Kindle are falling behind in the classroom as figures showed for the first time the majority of youngsters now prefer ebooks to printed versions
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  • The advance of technology means that young people who read on a screen have weaker literacy skills and fewer children now enjoy reading, experts have said.
  • A survey, conducted by The National Literacy Trust, found that 52 per cent of children preferred to read on an electronic device - including e-readers, computers and smartphones - while only 32 per cent said they would rather read a physical book.
  • Pupils who get free school meals, generally a sign they are from poorer backgrounds, are the least likely group to pick up a traditional book, the research found.
  • Boys in particular would prefer to read on a computer screen and the change in trend has encouraged many publishers to cash in by offering electronic versions of comics and books.The number of children and young people reading newspapers has fallen from 46.8 per cent in 2005 to 31.2 per cent in 2012
  • Brittney Chambers on 12 Jun 14
     
    Amazing facts and statistics that I think will be good to use!!! 
snipleflipper

Is the Internet Making Us Dumber? | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Another study showed that Internet users surfing the web tended to surf aimlessly when reading something that included hypertext links to other selected pieces of information and that some could not remember what they had and had not read.
  • They concluded that the people in the study predominantly read via the Internet by "skimming" and not reading in depth, hopping from one site to another. The researchers coined the term "power browsers" and this activity is not reading in the traditional sense. This reflects other research.
  • Carr argues that even the media now is adapting to the Internet, so that news stories are getting shorter, with abstracts, headlines and easy to browse pages.
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  • Wolf argues that we are "how" we read, and that Internet reading focuses on efficiency, immediacy and speed, so we become "decoders of information." This is a very different from traditional print reading which allows us to create complex mental connections. Wolf says that deep reading is indistinguishable from deep thinking, neither of which the Internet provides.
  • snipleflipper on 11 Jun 14
     
    "Another study showed that Internet users surfing the web tended to surf aimlessly when reading something that included hypertext links to other selected pieces of information and that some could not remember what they had and had not read. "
snipleflipper

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Nicholas Carr - The Atlantic - 0 views

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  • Wolf worries that the style of reading promoted by the Net, a style that puts “efficiency” and “immediacy” above all else, may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deep reading that emerged when an earlier technology, the printing press, made long and complex works of prose commonplace. When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.” Our ability to interpret text, to make the rich mental connections that form when we read deeply and without distraction, remains largely disengaged.
maelichauros

School of Education at Johns Hopkins University-Instant Messaging: Friend or Foe of Stu... - 0 views

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literacy decline instant messaging texting effects

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      maelichauros on 10 Jun 14
       
      The excerpt in blue is the example pointed to at the end of the teacher testimony
  • According to Lee (2002), "teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @. " However, something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional – when students use IM frequently, they reach a saturation point where they no longer notice the IM lingo because they are so used to seeing it.
  • Montana Hodgen, a 16-year old high school student in Montclair, New Jersey, "was so accustomed to instant-messaging abbreviations that she often read right past them" (Lee, 2002). As she puts it, "I was so used to reading what my friends wrote to me on Instant Messenger that I didn't even realize that there was something wrong," she said. She said her ability to separate formal and informal English declined the more she used instant messages" (Lee, 2002).
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  • Students have trouble seeing the distinction between formal and informal writing, and consequently use informal IM abbreviations and lingo in more formal writing situations (Brown-Owens, Eason, & Lader, 2003, p.6.
  • This was also a problem for Carl Sharp, whose 15-year old son's summer job application read "i want 2 b a counselor because i love 2 work with kids" (Friess, 2003), and English instructor Cindy Glover, who – while teaching undergraduate freshman composition in 2002 – "spent a lot of time unteaching Internet-speak. 'My students were trying to communicate fairly academic, scholarly thoughts, but some of them didn't seem to know it's "y-o-u," not "u"'" (Freiss, 2003.) These examples give credence to Montana Hodgen's point, that heavy IM use actually changes the way students read words on a page.
  • "Some teachers see the creeping abbreviations as part of a continuing assault of technology on formal written English" (Lee, 2002).
iriemisterg

Technology: A decrease in literacy skills. by Makayla Vikander on Prezi - 2 views

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  • There is plenty of evidence that literacy skills continue to decline. U.S. government data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows that after years of educational reforms, high school seniors scored worse on a national reading test than they had back in 1992. Less than three-quarters of U.S. 12th graders scored at at least the “basic” level, down from 80% in the early 1990s.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    This is a good base for us. I was thinking our opening statement would be a sentence, but I think I was wrong. This looks much better with a full paragraph beginning the argument.
maelichauros

I Think, Therefore IM - New York Times - 0 views

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  • As more and more teenagers socialize online, middle school and high school teachers like Ms. Harding are increasingly seeing a breezy form of Internet English jump from e-mail into schoolwork. To their dismay, teachers say that papers are being written with shortened words, improper capitalization and punctuation, and characters like &, $ and @.
  • Even terms that cannot be expressed verbally are making their way into papers. Melanie Weaver was stunned by some of the term papers she received from a 10th-grade class she recently taught as part of an internship. ''They would be trying to make a point in a paper, they would put a smiley face in the end,'' said Ms. Weaver, who teaches at Alvernia College in Reading, Pa. ''If they were presenting an argument and they needed to present an opposite view, they would put a frown.''
  • ''You are so used to abbreviating things, you just start doing it unconsciously on schoolwork and reports and other things,'' said Eve Brecker, 15, a student at Montclair High School in New Jersey.
  • maelichauros on 11 Jun 14
     
    This is a perfect article for a slide. I think.
iriemisterg

ORLANDO, Fla.: Professor says teens' social media lingo hurts writing skills | Technolo... - 1 views

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  • But some writing advocates say Twitter’s frugal word structure, Facebook’s short-post syntax and acronym-filled text messages are degrading writing skills.
  • gdebalski on 09 Jun 14
     
    "Just the other day, I asked my students to write four lines of dialogue they had over the weekend," said Terry Thaxton, a University of Central Florida English professor who runs the summer writing camp Shelby attended earlier this month. "Three of them reached for their phones to read their text messages. They said they couldn't remember any face-to-face conversations." This part raises a good point.
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