As digital texts and technologies become more prevalent, we gain new and more mobile ways of reading—but are we still reading as attentively and thoroughly? How do our brains respond differently to onscreen text than to words on paper? Should we be worried about dividing our attention between pixels and ink or is the validity of such concerns paper-thin. —Scientific American.
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RT @DennisJerz: The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American http://t.co/R34t2aRVVm
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That’s funny you would post this today…. Brianna Just asked me if I’d take her to the library to get some books on volcanoes…. When I asked her why she didn’t just research them online, she said she preferred actual books. I do as well. :)