{"id":1785,"date":"2017-03-04T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2017-12-28T21:24:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T21:24:43","slug":"e-readers-and-reading-comprehension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/e-readers-and-reading-comprehension\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Readers and Reading Comprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The invaluable Daniel Willingham briefly reviews<\/a>\u00a0the literature, and concludes that — for the time being — students understand more when they read on paper than when they use e-readers.<\/p>\n

Willingham acknowledges that his review isn’t comprehensive. However, he’s recently written a book about reading instruction, and so I suspect he’s more up-to-date than most in this field.<\/p>\n

If he’s right, this conclusion should give pause to the many (MANY) schools that are switching to e-textbooks. I know they have advantages; they’re less expensive, more portable, easier to modify to suit a specific teacher’s or student’s needs.<\/p>\n

And yet, if students learn less<\/em> when reading them, none of those advantages matters!<\/p>\n

Willingham is hopeful that the quality of e-readers will improve enough to eliminate this discrepancy. Until that happens, and until we have good research<\/em> showing that students can learn well from e-readers, old-fashioned books\u00a0seem like the best technology we have.<\/p>\n

(Scott MacClintic, this blog’s tech guru<\/a>, will have some thoughts on this topic soon…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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