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Great Infographic and very good article it's based on. 

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Adding to the research body correlating reading with academic performance is a recent study by Uk's Institute of Education (IOE) which found that children who read for pleasure are likely to do significantly better at school than their peers.

Parents, students, teachers and community members from more than 60 countries across the globe are coming together Wednesday to address the issue of adult and childhood illiteracy. But the focus isn't necessarily on new technologies, new teaching methods or millions of dollars in donations from private corporations to solve the problem, says Pam Allyn, executive director and founder of the international nonprofit LitWorld.

For all of the free literature and essays available online, a surprisingly small amount is geared toward children. Even less is aimed at children who speak foreign languages. The International Children's Digital Library offers children ages 3-13 free access to the best available children's literature in more than 40 languages.

"In Google we trust." That may very well be the motto of today's young online users, a demographic group often dubbed the "digital natives" due their apparent tech-savvy. Having been born into a world where personal computers were not a revolution, but merely existed alongside air conditioning, microwaves and other appliances, there has been (a perhaps misguided) perception that the young are more digitally in-tune with the ways of the Web than others.

"The most important difference [between paper and screen reading] is when the text becomes digital. Then it loses its physical dimension, which is special to the book, and the reader loses his feeling of totality."

"The most important difference [between paper and screen reading] is when the text becomes digital. Then it loses its physical dimension, which is special to the book, and the reader loses his feeling of totality."

Succinct article about the transience of digital information and the impact on history.

Discusses changing information formats and scenarios of response. Good article to reference in 5 year plans.

Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.

1. Leverage social media and the Web. 3. Embrace coming trends-ebooks, the cloud. Students and researchers now have greater access to primary source materials for historical research than ever before.

"The internet is the greatest source of information for people living in the UK today. But the amount of material available at the click of a mouse can be both liberating and asphyxiating. Although there are more e-books, trustworthy journalism, niche expertise and accurate facts at our fingertips than ever before, there is an equal measure of mistakes, half-truths, propaganda, misinformation and general nonsense. Knowing how to discriminate between them is both difficult and extremely important. Truth, Lies and the Internet examines the ability of young people in Britain to critically evaluate information they consume online..."

According to Davidson (2011 p7) if we're frustrated at information overload then we should quit operating under twentieth century rules ... I'm currently reading "Now You See It". This is an article about the book.