Book Wars: The Future of Reading This 21st century, an extensive range of wide technological advancements had been reached, along with numerous changes that had transpired from the simple day-to-day core activities up to those complex tasks. One example of changes brought about by advance modern technology is the medium of learning and reading in our society. Even though reading is still considered by many as one of their favorite leisure activity, several differences can be noticed in the way of traditional reading before and on the way of modern reading now. For the past 10 years, students can be seen reading a beautifully design printed book while riding a bus meanwhile students nowadays are immersed in their tablets and smartphones. …show more content…
Reading e-books for a long period of time can cause visual fatigue. Moreover, prolonged use of any electronic gadget can have damaging effects on one 's eyes. A recent study conducted by Swedish researchers found that digital reading required higher mental effort compared to reading on paper. In addition, a Harvard study conducted last 2014 showed that using tablets with LED screens at night can result in a distorted sleep pattern.
In terms of availability, despite the fact that e-books let one store countless books online, it only has limited availability since numerous printed books do not offer an e-Book version. Most importantly, low-battery life can interrupt one 's reading of e-Books. Printed books, on the other hand, offers continuous reading since it does not require a chargeable battery for power.
Third, even though reading is faster when using e-Books, less valuable information is retained by the reader. On the contrary, readers retain more information when reading a printed book. This is because besides the visuals, the tactile feeling of reading a printed book gives a positive feedback to the reader; thus, making him/her absorbed more information. According to Dr. Mark Hom, while one is reading a printed book, the words and its meanings are not the only ones that can be visualized by the reader but the physical location of the words and passages as well whether it may be at the top, bottom,
The author utilize people and data to support the drop-off in reading among teens because of technology. Ludden bring in two teenagers to say why they don’t read. The author provides a parent to show the impact of technology on a 10 year-old. In the article it talks about social media “10 year old...less reading..more attached to digital media platform.” (Ludden.1) and “many distraction on the internet.”
This book is relevant today becuase it has important messages about bravery and putting things into action and exploring. I think these messages are important in current events today in many ways. One ways is that we always need to be brave in everything we do. Also we need to explore and see new thigs I the world to get a better understanding of different places in the world. That is how i think the messages in the book are relavent today.
Everyone is miserable in a dystopia but, everyone in a utopia is happy. In a dystopia the people are you usually abused by their government. In a utopia the people are usually treated fairly and nicely. Although, many people believe war defines utopia and peace defines utopia, in reality bad government actions define a dystopia and knowledge defines a utopia. You can see this in any type of literature.
The constant stimulation of fast cars, music, and TV also caused the population to lose interest in reading, they don’t have the attention span to do it. The ideas of a
Students in today’s day and age are growing as being more fluent in digital as well as print cultures. New Literacies is a change in writing, and have forced individuals to rethink “what we mean by literature” (Lunsford 52). Students have gained a new way of reading, on in which is more tailored to the idea of new
I. INTRODUCTION Nowadays most of the youth are not totally engaged in reading some books. They are likely engaged in social media, gadgets because of modern technology that we embrace. Some says that book is boring because its content is wide and much time is needed. But we are wrong because Mr. Garry Paulsen, the one who wrote the book named “The Voyage of the Frog” can bring us to another dimension.
“The School Library versus the School Board: An Exploration of the Book Banning Trend of the 1980s,” written by Amy Pelman and Beverly Lynch recounts various cases involving public schools desires to ban specific novels. Several lawsuits, varying from Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico to Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District are presented in this article. All of the cases address school board discretion, student First Amendment rights, the right to receive information and ideas, and the selection likewise removal of books in school libraries. Overall, the act of obscuring novels from schools or developing societies is simply unconstitutional. Furthermore, The United States Supreme Court ruled against the Island
As the digital age comes upon us, more and more Americans become dissatisfied with the state of literacy in this generation. Because the Internet paves the way for shorter and shorter interactions, namely articles versus novels and six-second viral videos versus films, many people that grew up in the age of the Internet have a preference for this condensed form of entertainment. Dana Gioia of The New York Times asserts in his essay “Why Literature Matters” that the decline of reading in America is destined to have a negative impact on society as a whole. Gioia opens his essay with a bittersweet account of which trend is occurring in the twenty-first century America arts scene. He notes that as college attendance rates blossom, the interest
When you are reading text from a book there are advantages and disadvantages. Some advantages from reading text is you can make a connection to the characters and you can feel and understand the way the main characters are feeling. A disadvantages from reading text is you won 't get a full image as you would if you were watching a video. A advantage from watching a film is understanding more the struggle in things you wouldn 't understand if u were reading as much. Some disadvantages from watching films are trying to find the text in a
(Name: Farah Nadira binti Aznoor Hisham) OUTLINE TITLE: eBook vs. Textbook ORGANISATIONAL PATTERN: Monroe’s Motivated Sequence VISUAL AID: Power point slides GENERAL PURPOSE: to persuade my audience SPECIFIC PURPOSE: to persuade my audience that eBook bring more benefits to people than textbook CENTRAL IDEA: Making textbook caused many trees are being cut down which affect our ecosystem so we have to switch from using textbook to eBook in order to save our trees.
The reader acquires a variety of vocabulary thus increases the quality of writing and reading for low level readers. Secondly, it makes the reader be able to interpret text by using word attack skills and text attack skills which improves the skill of reading. Lastly, it makes the reader to understand or comprehend difficult text in a book or reading material. Drawbacks or limitations of intensive reading are firstly, most time is spent on reading a small amount of text which is time consuming. Secondly, Reading new material mostly containing complex vocabulary and grammar is a long and slow process in order for the reader to understand the text in the reading material.
Spending long hours on smartphones or electronics can result in various eye problems such as tension headaches, dry eye and a strain in the eyes (Chan, 2011). People of different age and gender spend
Theme: Education Narrow : The cause and effect of online learning Lai Che Hui (1001541419) Loo Yee Qi (1001541775) Now a days, a lot of people of the frequently to use technology or electronic products in any way or any time and of course most important is the Internet. A lot of schools started to use online learning to replace traditional paper based teaching method and submit the assignment. Basically, online learning had been widely accepted and practiced throughout the world. There’s tones of online learning student around the world, but did they ever think about what are the benefits they actually enjoyed on online learning?
Digital Media is any media that is enclosed in a machine and is a readable format. Anybody can create digital media, it can be viewed, shared changed and preserved by anyone on computers. Examples of digital media include; mobile phones, compact discs, digital video, digital television, e-book, internet, minidisc, video games, the World Wide Web, e-Commerce and many interactive media. (http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_media) Digital media is often contrasted with print media.
It is like this that books expand our knowledge, conception and consciousness of the world around us. You may say that nowadays there are other ways to do that, like the TV or Google, but books allow you to experience the same story form your own perspective, values, ideas and from your own feelings. Through reading, you introduce yourself to new things, new information, and even new ways to solve a problem. Secondly, reading helps us to