Reader, Come Home

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From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf s Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel Since then, the ways we process written language have changed dramatically with many concerned about both their own changes and that of children New research on the reading brain chronicles these changes in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed in a digitally dominated medium.Drawing deeply on this research, this book comprises a series of letters Wolf writes to us her beloved readers to describe her concerns and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain as it unavoidably changes to adapt to digital mediums Wolf raises difficult questions, including Will children learn to incorporate the full range of deep reading processes that are at the core of the expert reading brain Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information alter their ability to think for themselves With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to make analogies and draw inferences from what they know Will all these influences, in turn, change the formation in children and the use in adults of slower cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that comprise deep reading and that influence both how we think and how we live our lives Will the chain of digital influences ultimately influence the use of the critical analytical and empathic capacities necessary for a democratic society How can we preserve deep reading processes in future iterations of the reading brain Who are the good readers of every epoch Concerns about attention span, critical reasoning, and over reliance on technology are never just about children Wolf herself has found that, though she is a reading expert, her ability to read deeply has been impacted as she has become, inevitably, increasingly dependent on screens.Wolf draws on neuroscience, literature, education, technology, and philosophy and blends historical, literary, and scientific facts with down to earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate complex ideas that culminate in a proposal for a biliterate reading brain Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective on the impact of technology on our brains and our most essential intellectual capacities and what this could mean for our future. Read Reader, Come Home – kino-fada.fr Dear Fellow Reader, In the spirit of the book, allow me to address you in the old fashioned way of a personal letter, directly pointing at You, Goodreads Reader, who by your very presence on this site already embrace the new biliterate reading brain Maryanne Wolf suggests for our digital era I have a faible for Wo o lfs in literature, and after Virginia and Christa, Maryanne is the third bright star in my collection of influential Wolfs Reading her Proust and the Squid The Story and Science o Dear Fellow Reader, In the spirit of the book, allow me to address you in the old fashioned way of a personal letter, directly pointing at You, Goodreads Reader, who by your very presence on this site already embrace the new biliterate reading brain Maryanne Wolf suggests for our digital era I have a faible for Wo o lfs in literature, and after Virginia and Christa, Maryanne is the third bright star in my collection of influential Wolfs Reading her Proust and the Squid The Story and Science of the Reading Brain was a revelation to me, and I remain endlessly fascinated by the science behind what happens in the brain while one reads a string of sentences and makes sense of them That alone is a magical story, well worth exploring in depth.But the magic of the reading brain is in danger, and Nothingness has invaded the Literate World, figuratively speaking Invaded by an army ... The unsettling reality, however, is that unbeknownst to many of us, including until recently myself, there has begun an unanticipated decline of empathy among our young people. 50This quote is a good jumping off point for the review it not only demonstrates Wolf s OMG, think of the CHILDREN pov but also shows of her writing ability or lack thereof.Wolf never uses 15 words where she can use 60 She never uses a common word when she can use a longer, lesser known one.Her whole schtick is th The unsettling reality, however, is that unbeknownst to many of us, including until recently myself, there has begun an unanticipated decline of empathy among our young people. 50This quote is a good jumping off point for the review it not only demonstrates Wolf s OMG, think of the CHILDREN pov but also shows of her writing ability or lack thereof.Wolf never uses 15 words where she can use 60 She never uses a common word when she can use a longer, lesser known one.Her whole schtick is that modern people and younger generations can t appreciate or get through older, verbose, dense books She sees her verbose, dense, long winded form of writing as a moral triumph It s almost as if she s saying that if you think reading her writing is a slog, you are a poor, unfortunate person whose brain has been rotted ...DNF I m sure a lot people will enjoy this book and its insights into the brain, but it just didn t work for me I d probably enjoy it faras a podcast serieswhich I m sure says something damning about my brain the digital world.I don t dispute that Wolf has very valid concerns about our brains development in the digital age but this reads like a shallow literature review Telling me what Wendell Berry, Marcel Proust, Emily Dickinson, and Deitrich Bonhoeffer thought and said are great DNF I m sure a lot people will enjoy this book and its insights into the brain, b..., , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,I kind of proved this book s point by my reaction to it First, I felt like Wolf was taking too long to make her point in each letter each chapter is written in the form of a letter to her reader I am used to business communication, which is all about bullet points, visuals and not wasting your executive s time Second, I skipped the chapters about children because I am not a teacher, nor currently the parent of a young child Which just proves her point I am a voracious reader and yet eve I kind of proved this book s point by my reaction to it First, I felt like Wolf was taking too long to make her point in each letter each chapter is written in the form of a letter to her reader I am used to business communication, which is all about bullet points, visuals and not wasting your executive s time Second, I skipped the chapters about children because I am not a teacher, nor currently the parent of a young child Which just proves her point I am a voracious reader and yet even I have lost patience with long texts I want to get the to point I have a harder and harder time immersing myself in a long book, story, or essay When she listed the symptoms of losing your attention span for deep reading, I had every single one I was very disturbed by that What disturbed me evenwas the very good argument that Wolf makes for the peril that this decli...Summary From her last book, I think she was asked to write a book that wasin line with what the masses could understand In this regard, she dumbed her intense thinking down a lot Still 4 stars, but a prefer Wolf unfiltered.Reader, Come Home is a series of letters on various topics To me, these were a bit obvious platitudes about feelings on how the digital age is destroying critical thinking, reading deeply an...This book pissed me off.Maryanne Wolf tem dedicado a sua carreira acad mica a estudar o c rebro e a influ ncia da leitura a n vel neurol gico, em termos interiores e exteriores Afinal, mudan as causadas pelo exterior ao interior tamb m provocam consequ ncias exteriores E por a fora A cria o de h bitos de leitura s lidos desde cedo promove o desenvolvimento da intelig ncia, da mem ria, da aten o e do sentido cr tico.No entanto, este seu livro mais recente, Reader, Come Home, mais um sinal dos tempos , concentra Maryanne Wolf tem dedicado a sua carreira acad mica a estudar o c rebro e a influ ncia da leitura a n vel neurol gico, em termos interiores e exteriores Afinal, mudan as causadas pelo exterior ao interior tamb m provocam consequ ncias exteriores E por a fora A cria o de h bitos de leitura s lidos desde cedo promove o desenvolvimento da intelig ncia, da mem ria, da aten o e do sentido cr tico.No entanto, este seu livro mais recente, Reader, Come Home, mais um sinal dos tempos , concentrando se na passagem da leitura em papel, mais paciente e prolongada, para a leitura digital, facilmente interrompida pelas distra es doutras fontes ou mesmo que est o pr...When you read carefully, you areable to discern what is true and to add it to what you know Ralph Waldo Emerson described this aspect of reading in his extraordinary speech The American Scholar When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion Every sentence is doubly significant In reading research, the cognitive psychologist Keith Stanovich su...Whether you agree with Wolf or not, her new book is important and not just for educators, librarians, and those with children.

Reader, Come Home
  • 23 August 2017
  • ebook
  • 272 pages
  • 0062388797
  • Maryanne Wolf
  • Reader, Come Home