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SHAKESPEARE flashmob - 12 views

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The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific A... - 18 views

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  on the other hand, I just tried to change the color of my highlighter, and redo a highlight that supported a different conclusion, and Diigo would not let me--I learned that on my iPad
  
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no obvious shape or thickness.
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"haptic dissonance"
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e screen-based reading is more physically and mentally taxing than reading on pape
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- Leslie Healey on 12 May 13
  
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drains more mental resources than turning or clicking a page, which are simpler and more automatic gestures.
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people reading on screens take a lot of shortcuts—they spend more time browsing, scanning and hunting for keywords compared with people reading on paper, and are more likely to read a document once, and only once.
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When reading on screens, people seem less inclined
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metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood
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Sellen has learned that many people do not feel much ownership of e-books because of their impermanence and intangibility: "They think of using an e-book, not owning an e-book," s
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Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version.
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Why not keep paper and evolve screen-based reading into something else entirely?
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Some Web comics and infographics turn scrolling into a strength rather than a weakness. S
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e Scale of the Universe tool
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Leslie Healey on 12 May 13

paper vs screen in your brain

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The Dark Side of Verbs-as-Nouns - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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  great example: interesting AP example?
  
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e specialist vocabulary of a particular profession or community
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  attorneys' "word of art" cease and desist
  
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It’s not just that nominalization can sap the vitality of one’s speech or prose; it can also eliminate context and mask any sense of agency.
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: nouns get verbed as often as verbs get nouned.
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nebulous or fuzzy seem stable, mechanical and precisely defined
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repudiating ambiguity and complexity.
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priority to actions rather than to the people responsible for them.
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t often they conceal power relationships and reduce our sense of what’s truly involved in a transaction.
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instrument of manipulatio
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Digital Learning Day :: Splash - 14 views

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Creative Nonfiction: a definition and appreciation - 14 views

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For a while the NEA experimented with “belles-lettres,” a misunderstood term that favors style over substance and did not capture the personal essence and foundation of the literature they were seeking. Eventually one of the NEA members in the meeting that day pointed out that a rebel in his English department was campaigning for the term “creative nonfiction.” That rebel was me.
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literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and events—in a compelling, vivid manner. To p
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real demarcation points between fiction, which is or can be mostly imagination; traditional nonfiction (journalism and scholarship), which is mostly information; and creative nonfiction, which presents or treats information using the tools of the fiction writer while maintaining allegiance to fact.
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George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, and Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff are classic creative nonfiction efforts—
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communicate information (reportage) in a scenic, dramatic fashion.
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offers flexibility and freedom while adhering to the basic tenets of reportage. In creative nonfiction, writers can be poetic and journalistic simultaneously
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inematic techniques, from scene to dialogue to description to point of view, to write about themselves and ot
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Honor Code - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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The Neuroscience of Your Brain On Fiction - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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Stories,
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stimulate the brain and even change how we act in life.
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nterprets written words. What scientists have come to realize in the last few years is that narratives activate many other parts of our brains as well, suggesting why the experience of reading can feel so alive.
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The brain, it seems, does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life; in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.
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The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life.
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substantial overlap in the brain networks used to understand stories and the networks used to navigate interactions with other individuals
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“theory of mind
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other people’s intenti
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comparing a plucky young woman to Elizabeth Bennet or a tiresome pedant to Edward Casaubon. Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.
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analysis of impact of reading, novel especially. validates focus on class SSR, even in 11-12th grade (my groups)

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Will hyperconnected millennials suffer cognitive consequences? (Audio) | Pew Research C... - 8 views

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multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders,
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mostly positive between now
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exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability due to what one referred to as “fast-twitch wiring.”
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In the report, Weinberger wrote, "Whatever happens, we won't be able to come up with an impartial value judgment because the change in intellect will bring about a change in values as well."
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Leslie Healey on 04 Mar 12

note last line: there will be a change in values as a result of the changes in learning provoked by he internet.We have embarked on the biggest social experiment of the century by accident.

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