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I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

~Maryanne Wolf

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After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

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Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

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I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.

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I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.

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Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!

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I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.

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We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.

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Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

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We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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