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I will admit it, I have yet to read an entire novel or non-fiction book (of over a 100 pages) on an electronic device. But that is partly because I don't typically read novels and the non-fiction topics that I am interested in are not yet available in electronic form.

But I have read (and do read) comprehend and 'know' a small library's worth of information over the last few years in smaller chunks from the screen of my various devices.

I agree with the research and acknowledge the continued need for printed reading skills and materials. But I would also point out that these two formats should not be mutually exclusive, but rather are complimentary.

Reading, managing, recalling, citing, validating digital text is quite different from printed text. It may be that printed text is preferable given a certain history/experience/purpose/ or skill set. But there are just as many advantages to electronic texts, and maybe we need to address them as two different important literacies as educators.

It reminded me of comments I made when the iPad first came out: http://www.shupester.com/files/iPadDifferent.php

I loved the part about mind mapping and the meta-cognitive things we do before we start reading. Great article with research-based facts.

As organizer of the Greater Seattle Women Who Write Meetup for little over a year, I've noticed the Meetup I proclaimed to be Most Popular on our monthly calendar IS indeed the one that attracts the largest number of participants. Chicken, egg, or marketing?

Interesting..

Uma excelente ferramenta de colaboração criativa. 

FaceTune is a great photo-retouching app for iOS devices (iPhones and iPads). Designed specifically for retouching human faces, FaceTune provides a specific set of tools to help you do just that.

To appreciate how good the tool is just look at anyone of the many video tutorials available (link below) which show you techniques and steps to clean up just about any pretty face.

Pretty impressive. Great ease of use and highly specific effects make this tool a hard one to beat. Too bad there isn't also a Web version.

Price: $2.99

More video tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/user/Facetuneapp?feature=watch

More info: http://www.facetuneapp.com/

App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facetune/id606310581?mt=8

Test Beta version!

Fine tune some presentations with this.

Some of us do tend to say too much; they have the need to show how wise they are......

Enjoy it.

Some great ideas for all levels.

Looks like a great tool - I hope there is an Android version of it. 

Studying is not the intended function of this application, however, by uploading lecture slides as images, or taking pictures of the board during class, then uploading these images to Pixntell, would allow you to create your very own custom Flashcards. By recording your own audio notes to accompany the images, you could create short movies that could act as bitesize recap tools to support your revision, or prompts for studying, or a visual plan for your coursework.   

How could I use this to teach?

It's just one of those days!

My third scoop of the day and each takes a slightly different take on the value of openness to ambiguity and alternative interpretations.

Like the ThugNotes comments, this article poses both concepts and ideas that I find quite attractive and  concepts and ideas that I'm not so certain I can agree with.

But in either case, reading both what I agree with and what I may not agree with provides a value much richer than reading with blinders on. 

For example, I really liked this..

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“ 'Deep reading' — as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web — is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art. Its disappearance would imperil the intellectual and emotional development of generations growing up online, as well as the perpetuation of a critical part of our culture: the novels, poems and other kinds of literature that can be appreciated only by readers whose brains, quite literally, have been trained to apprehend them."
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Yet at the same time, when the author extends this argument to suggest ...

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"A growing body of evidence suggests that online reading may be less engaging and less satisfying, even for the “digital natives” for whom it is so familiar. Last month, for example, Britain’s National Literacy Trust released the results of a study of 34,910 young people aged 8 to 16. Researchers reported that 39% of children and teens read daily using electronic devices, but only 28% read printed materials every day. Those who read only onscreen were three times less likely to say they enjoy reading very much and a third less likely to have a favorite book. The study also found that young people who read daily only onscreen were nearly two times less likely to be above-average readers than those who read daily in print or both in print and onscreen."

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...I have concerns that the explanation for such data has insufficiently considered the causes and effects leading to the conclusions drawn. 

I think a serious case could be put forward that printed reading is becoming much less engaging for many digital reading of the same text. But that is not the parameters of comparison here. Comparing engagement with paper text with engagement with e-reader text is a perhaps more authentic than comparing printed text (implying paper) to web reading (including very different kinds of reading).

I would concede that reading text on my laptop does cause me to lose that deep engagement. Yet, reading text on my iPad is much more engaging for me. The difference? The physical process of reading on my iPad is very similar to reading a paper-based version of the same text. I can hold my iPad in one hand. I virtually turn pages in a very similar fashion, I can slouch around in my hammock while reading or sit on a rock at the top of a mountain with my iPad. But, I can't do that with my laptop so easily.

On my laptop, I can't as easily pause and savor while highlighting and writing marginalia (which does slow the reading allowing for the very slowing down the author endorses). When comparing paper-based reading to web reading, these disadvantages of web-based reading do make web-reading less engaging to me. 

But, on the other hand, my iPad kicks the butt of paper-based reading when it comes to highlighting and marginalia conveniences and advantages.

Is the author wrong and therefore is this article to be dismissed? Of course not, critical thinkers don't really judge complex issues in such black and white terms.

I like much, perhaps even most of what this author is suggesting in spite of the fact that there are parts of the argument that I find troublesome.

 ~ http://www.GoogleLitTrips.com ~

A case for narrative: Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer. (For more evidence, read I Hear America Reading by Jim Burke)

Ammo for 1st day of school.