{"id":31,"date":"2008-02-08T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T17:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-02-08T22:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T21:27:44","slug":"dawn-of-the-digital-natives-or-when-is-reading-not-proper-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of the digital natives? Or: When is reading not proper reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article by Steven Johnson on the front of this week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2008\/feb\/07\/internet.literacy\">Technology Guardian<\/a> says that scary reports about the decline of reading in the digital age ignore all the screen reading that&#8217;s going on. He&#8217;s even found a study (in Michigan, admittedly) that found &#8216;that grades and reading scores rose with the amount of time spent online&#8217;. He concludes, &#8216;What separates the Google generation from postwar generations is the shift from largely image-based passive media to largely text-based interactive media.&#8217; Why, everyone&#8217;s actually writing more now they&#8217;re on blogs and MySpace. The end of the literate world may not, after all, be at hand!<\/p>\n<p>The National Literacy Trust published its own findings last December on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literacytrust.org.uk\/research\/reader_selfperception.html?dm_i=210475974\">Young people&#8217;s self-perceptions as readers<\/a>. They surveyed 1143 pupils who defined themselves as &#8216;readers&#8217; and 471 pupils who defined themselves as &#8216;non-readers&#8217;. However, their findings show, in an interesting reflection of Steven Johnson&#8217;s comments, that &#8216;the a huge percentage of non-readers <strong>do<\/strong> read, just not the kinds of materials that are traditionally associated with reading.&#8217; Take a look at the full survey findings to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literacy may not, after all, be killed off by technology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-and-ict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}