How We Read Now

An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the fieldWe face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the onlyviable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies weneed in order to read effectively in all formats. In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key challenges--from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading forcritical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. The book then crucially connectsresearch insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video. Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that.

“"How We Read Now is a wonderful guide to the complicated landscape where our minds meet the written word; it helps us understand how we read, how we learn, and how we navigate a changing world of text, information, stories, and connection, for ourselves and for our children." --Perri Klass, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics, New York University, and author A Good Time to Be Born "Naomi Baron has done a huge service to everyone involved in the study, teaching, and practice of reading-which means all of us. Written in a friendly and informal style, with well-placed signposts and summaries, her succinct synthesis of research findings provides a wealth of timely and relevant advice for policy-makers, teachers, students, parents, and children." --David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University, and author of Let's Talk "Naomi Baron has done it again. She has enticed us to take a long, hard look at reading in this technological age. How We Read Now brings the advantages and disadvantages of each medium into the light, and guides us on what, when, or why to read in one medium or another. This eye-opening book is truly a 'must read' for educators, parents, and students." --Patricia Alexander, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland "Dr. Baron clearly synthesizes the issues surrounding how we read from printed and screen texts. Everyone needs to read this book." --Larry D. Rosen, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and co-author of The Distracted Mind "Naomi Baron expertly presents the latest research on the cognitive and behavioral facets of 'reading to learn' in multiple formats. She offers an accessible translation of points and strategies for policymakers and educators, including parents, to consider for readers at all levels. This book is essential reading in a time of transition to digital publishing." --Diane Mizrachi, UCLA Library, and Alicia Salaz, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries”

"A well-researched, accessible treatise on all the ways we experience and absorb words... Educating tomorrowâs generations is of urgent importance to all of us, and for that reason, How We Read Now is must reading. Baron does not prescribe particular reading platforms, but rather enables us to better assess all the possibilities... Baron's light, conversational style makes for enjoyable reading - whether in print or on a screen. " -- BÃ!rbaraMujica, Washington Independent Review of Books"How We Read Now is a wonderful guide to the complicated landscape where our minds meet the written word; it helps us understand how we read, how we learn, and how we navigate a changing world of text, information, stories, and connection, for ourselves and for our children." --Perri Klass, Professor of Journalism and Pediatrics, New York University, and author A Good Time to Be Born"Naomi Baron has done a huge service to everyone involved in the study, teaching, and practice of reading-which means all of us. Written in a friendly and informal style, with well-placed signposts and summaries, her succinct synthesis of research findings provides a wealth of timely and relevant advice for policy-makers, teachers, students, parents, and children." --David Crystal, Honorary Professor of Linguistics, Bangor University, and author of Let'sTalk"Naomi Baron has done it again. She has enticed us to take a long, hard look at reading in this technological age. How We Read Now brings the advantages and disadvantages of each medium into the light, and guides us on what, when, or why to read in one medium or another. This eye-opening book is truly a 'must read' for educators, parents, and students." --Patricia Alexander, Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland"Dr. Baron clearly synthesizes the issues surrounding how we read from printed and screen texts. Everyone needs to read this book." --Larry D. Rosen, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and co-author of The Distracted Mind"Naomi Baron expertly presents the latest research on the cognitive and behavioral facets of 'reading to learn' in multiple formats. She offers an accessible translation of points and strategies for policymakers and educators, including parents, to consider for readers at all levels. This book is essential reading in a time of transition to digital publishing." --Diane Mizrachi, UCLA Library, and Alicia Salaz, Carnegie Mellon University Libraries

Naomi S. Baron is Professor of Linguistics Emerita at American University in Washington, DC. A Guggenheim Fellow, Fulbright Fellow, and Fulbright Specialist, she has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Baron is author of Words Onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World (OUP 2015) and Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World (OUP 2008).

An engaging and authoritative guide to the impact of reading medium on learning, from a foremost expert in the fieldWe face constant choices about how we read. Educators must select classroom materials. College students weigh their textbook options. Parents make decisions for their children. The digital revolution has transformed reading, and with the recent turn to remote learning, onscreen reading may seem like the onlyviable option. Yet selecting digital is often based on cost or convenience, not on educational evidence. Now more than ever it is imperative to understand how reading medium actually impacts learning--and what strategies weneed in order to read effectively in all formats. In How We Read Now, Naomi Baron draws on a wealth of knowledge and research to explain important differences in the way we concentrate, understand, and remember across multiple formats. Mobilizing work from international scholarship along with findings from her own studies of reading practices, Baron addresses key challenges--from student complaints that print is boring to the hazards of digital reading forcritical thinking. Rather than arguing for one format over another, she explains how we read and learn in different settings, shedding new light on the current state of reading. The book then crucially connectsresearch insights to concrete applications, offering practical approaches for maximizing learning with print, digital text, audio, and video. Since screens and audio are now entrenched--and invaluable-platforms for reading, we need to rethink ways of helping readers at all stages use them more wisely. How We Read Now shows us how to do that.

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