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Las aulas y los libros de texto se digitalizan · ELPAÍS.com - 0 views

www.elpais.com/...Tes librosyweb20 libros 2.0
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  • En California, el gobernador Arnold Scwarzenegger ha anunciado una iniciativa para sustituir algunos libros de matemáticas y ciencias en los institutos por versiones digitales gratuitas de fuente abierta. Con la difícil situación financiera de California, el Gobernador espera que los libros de texto gratuitos puedan hacer que se ahorren cientos de millones de dólares al año.
  • Cuando la gente supere sus barreras mentales se dará cuenta de que no hay por qué pagar 100 dólares por cada libro de texto cuando puedes obtener gratis el contenido deseado".
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The Future of Reading - Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTim... - 0 views

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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.”
  • 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.
  • 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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  • 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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