Hours and hours of screen time. How much are digital distractions changing the way kids think, and even read?
, incoming director of UCLA's Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice. Most recently a professor of child development and public service at Tufts University, where she directed the Tufts Center for Reading and Language Research. Co-founder ofExcerpted from the book READER, COME HOME by Maryanne Wolf. Copyright © 2018 by Maryanne Wolf. Republished with permission of Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
"Wolf resolved to allot a set period every day to reread a novel she had loved as a young woman, Hermann Hesse’s 'Magister Ludi.' It was exactly the sort of demanding text she’d once reveled in. But now she discovered to her dismay that she could not bear it. 'I hated the book,' she writes. 'I hated the whole so-called experiment.
Has this happened to you? Pick up a favorite book, but you can't finish it. Your mind wanders. Sentences seem long. Boring. Eventually you toss the real book, and instead, check Facebook. Are we losing our ability to read deeply? To be quiet and contemplative, empathetic and critical thinkers. Literacy researcher Maryanne Wolf worries about it. But she's not a digital luddite. No call to hurl iPads out the window here.
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