6/18/2023 0 Comments The reader summarieshow humans first learned to read and why we seem to be unlearning that ability and.why our brains respond so positively to the addictive aspects of online culture.In this summary of Reader, Come Home by Maryanne Wolf, you’ll learn And that’s a skill both digital and analog media can help cultivate – the trick is knowing which medium works in which context and why. Instead, we need to pay closer attention to the way we’re teaching kids to read and thus think in a deep, sustained manner. The solutions won’t be found in a romantic, back-to-nature movement that renounces all things digital. Those kinds of problems, she claims, can be fixed. That has serious social consequences: testing early literacy, after all, is one of the best ways of predicting whether a child will complete their education or end up in prison. An expert on the “reading brain,” she’s seen what digital dependence can do to our ability to sit still and concentrate on a single subject for more than five minutes. So are we really looking down the barrel of total civilizational collapse? American neuroscientist and author Maryanne Wolf doesn’t think so – not yet, at least. We’re sleeping less, being increasingly anxious, arguing more and – ultimately – losing touch with reality. That, critics claim, is wreaking havoc across society. We upload our supposedly offline activities and talk about what we’ve seen and read online with our friends, colleagues and families. Today, they’re two sides of the same coin. The days when the distinction between our digital lives and what used to be called IRL or “in real life” are long gone.
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