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A flipbook designed to raise awareness of the effect that digital reading has on not only our education, but our ability to read offline and in other settings as well. Glaring statistics and clear narration aim to convince the viewer that this is in fact a prevalent issue facing consumers of digital media.
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Too Long; Didn’t Read
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TL; DR is an acronym used on Internet discussion boards and social media which stands for “too long; didn’t read”. However, the implicaUons of this phenomenon reach far beyond our Facebook pages.
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The average online reader will quit aXer viewing only 18% of a given arUcle.
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Not only does this affect society as a whole, but as students, we should be especially perturbed. We rely on deep-‐thinking and reading every day in our studies.
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I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecUng us
when we have to read with more in-‐depth processing”.
-‐ Maryanne Wolf,
TuXs University NeuroscienUst
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In 2012, CollegeBoard (the company which organizes the SAT’s) released shocking data poinUng out that students who took the test that year had scored the lowest scores since 1972 on the English/Reading secUon. The average student scored 496 out of 800.
Students simply are not as prepared as they used to be when compleUng university level reading and wriUng.
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The ability to not only read, but to read deeply, read effecUvely, and read criUcally, is a gateway for knowledge. Without these skills, students will inevitably struggle.
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A Swedish study by Erik Wastlund found that...
You are less a,enUve, and have a harder Ume remembering text on a screen.
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Digital technology has increased our access to
informaUon, yet simultaneously hurt our
ability to digest it.
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“51% of Americans are acUve on Facebook”
“50% of Americans can not read a eighth-‐grade level book”
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How can students be prepared to read these?....
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When half of American adults can not read something like this..
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Maybe it is
*me for more of
this…
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and less of this…
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In the absence of Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease,
The human brain remains relaUvely plasUc throughout life.
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With a li,le pracUce and changing a few bad habits, we can change how we think, and how we read. We can change this…
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Into this, and take back our knowledge
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So challenge the norm. Get out there and pick up one of these. Read from cover to cover. Connect, learn, and wonder.
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Who knows
It might be a li,le more social than you
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StaUsUc References: h,p://www.nngroup.com/arUcles/how-‐li,le-‐do-‐users-‐read/ h,p://www.washingtonpost.com/local/serious-‐reading-‐takes-‐a-‐hit-‐from-‐online-‐scanning-‐ and-‐skimming-‐researchers-‐say/2014/04/06/088028d2-‐b5d2-‐11e3-‐b899-‐20667de76985_ story.html h,p://www.washingtonUmes.com/news/2012/sep/24/high-‐school-‐grads-‐reading-‐skills-‐hit-‐ new-‐low-‐most-‐/?page=all h,ps://gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/4693 h,p://www.prdaily.com/Main/ArUcles/Study_51_percent_of_Americans_use_ Facebook_7826.aspx h,p://raisingbookworms.com/resources/reading-‐and-‐literacy-‐staUsUcs/
