{"id":1997,"date":"2017-05-10T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2017-12-26T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T21:53:28","slug":"once-upon-a-digital-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/once-upon-a-digital-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon a Digital Time…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A recent study<\/a> suggests that 3- and 4-year old children understand as much, and learn as much vocabulary from, digital books as from read-alouds with adults.<\/p>\n

This study hasn’t been published–it was presented at a recent conference–so we can’t look at all the details with the specificity that we usually do. (And, skeptics will rightly be concerned that the research was funded by Amazon: a company that might well profit from its conclusions.)<\/p>\n

At the same time, the description I’ve linked to sounds plausible and responsible, so I’m not inclined to dismiss this finding out of hand.<\/p>\n

The authors’ conclusions conflict with some other findings in related fields. You may remember a recent blog post<\/a> discussing Daniel Willingham’s conclusion that, on the whole, students learn more from books than from e-readers.<\/p>\n

I’ve also been interested in a study<\/a> by Ackerman and Goldsmith showing that students regulate their learning better with books than e-readers.<\/p>\n

But the current study isn’t about college students<\/em> trying to learn<\/em> from books; it’s about pre-readers<\/em> trying to follow a story<\/em> that’s being read to them. In this one paradigm, the researchers have found that the right kind of e-book can do the job as well as the right kind of adult.<\/p>\n

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