{"id":1124,"date":"2012-09-17T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T10:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2012-09-17T14:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:35:03","slug":"the-e-books-or-print-books-debate-chuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2012\/09\/17\/the-e-books-or-print-books-debate-chuck\/","title":{"rendered":"The E-books or Print Books Debate – Chuck"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s Real Reading? The E-books or Print Books Debate<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chuck Sandy
iTDi Community Director<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

<\/strong>If you want to start an argument among a room full of reading specialists, ask them what reading is and how best to teach it. The reading wars<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>have been raging for decades, and no one has ever really had a correct answer to these questions even in the pre-digital age when books were books and the printed word was all there was. Now in the digital age, the questions have become enormously complicated. What is reading? What actually happens when we read? Does the brain respond differently to flat words on a printed page than it does to hyperlinked words on a digital platform that lead us to interactive graphs, reader reviews, YouTube Videos, and more? Is reading online really reading? Is Google making us stupid?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Although I have spent the greater part of my professional life trying to figure all this out, what really interests me now is why some people become readers while others will openly tell you that they don\u2019t like reading, or even that they don\u2019t read. As a person who can\u2019t leave the house without a bag full of books and a fully loaded Kindle, I find this hard to understand. What do they mean they don\u2019t read, I wonder, and so I ask them. They usually mean books, <\/em>particularly the kind of books people read in school or for pleasure. Then I wonder how might it be possible to turn non-readers into readers and since this is such an important thing to do, does it really matter whether new reader read printed books or e-books or band fan sites or hotel reviews on the Internet? It’s all reading, right?<\/p>\n

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My own position is that somehow it’s all reading and that it doesn\u2019t matter what people read as long as they read, and I\u2019ll tell you why later, but right now I\u2019d like you to read what Christina Markoulaki and Barbara Hoskins Sakamoto have to say about e-books and printed books, and how they approach reading in their classrooms. Then I\u2019d like you to go to http:\/\/itdi.pro\/<\/a> <\/strong>and tell us what you think by posting a comment in the E-Books or Print Books Debate. You\u2019ll find my answer there. You’ll need to log-in to the\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/itdi.pro\/<\/a>\u00a0site and \u00a0thenclick on Forums to get there, but that’s pretty easy to do.<\/p>\n

From time to time we\u2019ll feature a debate like this one on the iTDi Blog with the hope that you will join in the discussion. Feel free to respond to any of the points Christina and Barbara make in their thoughtful posts or to any of the questions I\u2019ve raised here. Also, we\u2019d love to know more about what you read and how you read it, but more importantly, what and how do your students read?<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to do a little more, you might like to conduct a reading survey like the one proposed by Katherine Schulten and Shannon Doyne in their New York Times article<\/a><\/strong> on the future of reading.<\/p>\n

They suggest \u201ckeeping a 24-hour reading journal in which you note everything you read, as well as in what setting and on what device you read it \u2026\u00a0 At the end of the day, tally how much of what you read was on a device or in a format that didn\u2019t exist 10 years ago. Then ask yourself, which of these reading experiences would you say counts<\/em> as real reading<\/em>, and which doesn\u2019t? Why? Do you think your answer would be different than the answer of someone in a different generation?\u201d I\u2019ve been doing this myself throughout the day, starting with the Facebook posts I read soon after getting up this morning, continuing on through the articles I read while writing this, a bit of news here and there in-between, \u00a0Christina and Barb\u2019s blog posts which of course led me to other blog posts, \u00a0translating the directions I needed to read on a medicine bottle, scanning the lyrics to a song, sorting through a whole bunch of email, \u00a0and reading the novel I\u2019ve been enjoying for weeks, a little at time. What I\u2019ve found out is that I read even more than I thought I do.<\/p>\n

How about you?<\/p>\n

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Photo by @aClilToClimb on\u00a0http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eltpics\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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