hen under pressure to read quickly, students using computers and paper performed equally well. When managing their own study time, however, volunteers using paper scored about 10 percentage points higher. Presumably, students using paper approached the exam with a more studious frame of mind than their screen-reading peers, and more effectively directed their attention and working memory.
The generations are changing and therefore so is the way we retain information and gather our materials.
o anyone who routinely switches between working long hours in front of a computer at the office and leisurely reading paper magazines and books at home; to people who have embraced e-readers for their convenience and portability, but admit that for some reason they still prefer reading on paper;
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it. In fact, the brain essentially regards letters as physical objects because it does not really have another way of understanding them.
Referring to the digital reads and how marketing and presentation is all a part of that. Not just the convenience of the digital books.
Participants in her studies say that when they really like an electronic book, they go out and get the paper version. This reminds Sellen of people's early opinions of digital music, which she has also studied.
Because I’m not very familiar with digital books and all these new tools. Whenever I would like a digital read or audio book I would go get a print copy. Being able to highlight and take notes and flip through pages and carry the actual book made the information easier to retain.
When reading on screens, people seem less inclined to engage in what psychologists call metacognitive learning regulation—strategies such as setting specific goals, rereading difficult sections and checking how much one has understood along the way.
This supports my views if the outcome we are trying to obtain from the reading material is the objective we are more inclined to pay attention and focus whether it is digital or printed.
cluded that 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.
This can’t be completely true, when skimming on our reads or digital reads it could seem like we focus less. However when it’s actual research or something we are trying to gather knowledge about we stay just as focused and when we are reading our printed materials.
milder
Not severe
oung children who have never seen a tablet like the iPad or an e-reader like the Kindle will still reach out and run their fingers across the pages of a paper book; they will jab at an illustration they like; heck, they will even taste the corner of a book. Today's so-called digital natives still interact with a mix of paper magazines and books, as well as tablets, smartphones and e-readers; using one kind of technology does not preclude them from understanding another.
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