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Bezig met laden... Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (editie 2018)door Maryanne Wolf (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkReader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World door Maryanne Wolf
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  Levitara | Apr 5, 2024 |   Super-repetitive. Weirdly on-topic and off-topic. And repetitive. And did I say it was repetitive? Many paragraphs were filled with unnecessary words and unnecessary name dropping. Not just research was quoted by name but phrases had to be cited. She even quoted the Pope for some phrase that she felt needed his name attached. The writing was so bad that I tried skimming some of her text, exactly what she railed against. For me, skimming is a self-defense mechanism to deal with too much info or too many words to express something. In other words, skimming has its merits; she did not give it its due. Alas, skimming her text was equally unsatisfying. While faster, it didn't work either. Have read the whole thing, I feel less intelligent for having done so. Her editor was clearly asleep on the job (Recommendation to publisher: Fire editors who do not know how to edit.) For a book about the science of books and reading, it is laughable that it could be so bad. (I'm not even motivated to spend more time going into detail on why it's bad. That's how bad it is.) I will temper my review with one positive: She wrote well when she described the experience with her own son having trouble in school - and how the school didn't understand his problem and didn't handle it well. Alas, the rest of the book isn't worth reading for that one positive. (  ) donwon | Jan 22, 2024 |  ) d.v. | May 16, 2023 | Wolf presents a balanced account of the different effects of different mediums, both negative and positive, and how we might use this knowledge to do better for our children and ourselves. It's a welcome perspective. It's also a deeply humanist and moral meditation of the capacities of the human mind and the importance of storytelling. It's a clarion call to fulfill the responsibility we all bear toward our fellow human beings and to the future. This is a work of tremendous empathy and passion. It may well be one of the most important works of our age. (  ) johnthelibrarian | Aug 11, 2020 | I think I was expecting an argument similar to 2010's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Which is to say I was expecting a lot of finger wagging and bemoaning of how this new digital world is just terrible. But while Shallows feels overly luddite-ish, Maryanne Wolf's Reader, Come Home seems more intent on adapting to the future rather than fighting it. There's more of a "Let's figure this out" approach going on here. The Edward Tenner quote above sums it up well. Humanity's collective brilliance built this wonderous, breathtaking modern world, but we now risk undermining ourselves. Reader, Come Home is, on its surface, about the reading brain and the challenges posed, but the book's broader message is about the potential dangers of our technological innovations, especially if left unchecked. We risk getting swallowed by our own good intentions. Reader, Come Home is a candle, a way forward. We can have the best of all futures if we want, but not if we're thoughtless about who we want to be. ( ) Daniel.Estes | Jul 17, 2020 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
From the author of Proust and the Squid , a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies. A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium. Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us-her beloved readers-to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums. Wolf raises difficult questions, including: Will children learn to incorporate the full range of "deep reading" processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain? Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children's attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves? With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know? Will all these influences, in turn, change the formation in children and the use in adults of "slower" cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives? Will the chain of digital influences ultimately influence the use of the critical analytical and empathic capacities necessary for a democratic society? How can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain? Who are the "good readers" of every epoch? Concerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology are never just about children-Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become, inevitably, increasingly dependent on screens. Wolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, technology, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain. Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities-and what this could mean for our future. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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It raises the concern of how reading fewer books might lead to being bad at processing information or how it lowers our empathy to each other.
I personally enjoyed the chapters that try to suggest how to rear a child in this digital age because I plan to have kids. It gives advice on how to encourage them to become a successful reader from a young age and how to bring digital content into their life without making them addicted to screens.
One part that I was a bit in disagreement about was the part about comparing reading physical books and reading digitally. While I agree that reading on the phone can lead to distractions, Kindle, for example, doesn't have distracting features. Apparently, reading digitally also encourages skimming. I read mostly digitally in recent years and I never skimmed. I don't really notice much difference between reading physical or Kindle. Actually, Kindle is quite helpful in cases such as if I forget some character and want to search where they were first introduced. Hard to do that on the physical copy. I also started reading English books on Kindle when my English wasn't that good and I made good use of the inbuilt dictionary. Well, the usefulness of Kindle wasn't really the point, but from the way the author talked about the differences in reading, I was really curious to know if she ever actually tried using an e-reader.
This was a very interesting book that made me think a lot about how reading works and what it does for you. I also appreciate the advice for bringing up kids in the digital age. (