Not only should digital reading be introduced more slowly into the curriculum; it also should be integrated with the more immersive reading skills that deeper comprehension requires.
I wonder how this will differ with our upcoming generation of true digital (and mobile) natives who have had tablets and phones to read on since they were 2 or so. Will they need that training? Will they need more training in reading physical texts?
If the online readers took notes on paper, however, the negative effects of Internet access were significantly reduced.
This goes again back to physical connection that seems to be needed to form strong memory.
The students do not only differ in their abilities and preferences; they also need different sorts of training to excel at each medium. The online world, she argues, may require students to exercise much greater self-control than a physical book.
This is something I will certainly keep in mind for my future students.
hose who had read the story in print fared significantly better, making fewer mistakes and recreating an over-all more accurate version of the story.
I can believe this. It's also difficult during discussions to find a line or quote quickly to share when using an ereader, as opposed to a paperback.
The reading has left more of an ephemeral experience,
I think this is akin to remembering where you were when you first heard a song or how a scent can trigger vivid memory. There's a physical/memory connection that happens when you PHYSICALLY interact with your environment.
Skimming, Liu concluded, had become the new reading: the more we read online, the more likely we were to move quickly, without stopping to ponder any one thought.
Totally true! So many things are missed and passed over in digital reading.
“The ergonomics, the haptics of the device itself. The tangibility of paper versus the intangibility of something digital.”
This is certainly something that I notice about e-reading. It's a different experience altogether. I struggle to pay attention to electronic sources as there seems to nearly always be so much "noise" (physical, visual) and distraction....like taking 10 minutes to write this instead of just underlining it in a book with a note like "yep!" and having that still work for me.