The problem today is that most of the people will only or most of the time read on a screen book like kindles, I-Pads, IPhones, etc. With time I think that the paper books version will disappear, but the question is: is screen book better for our brains than paper versions?
In the article that I read it explained that viral YouTube video was posted in October 2011, a-one year old was on a I-Pad sweeping her finger on the screen making the icons move. This video shows us that now even younger kids start interacting with an I-Pad or IPhone or I-Pod. Do you realize that now we give our electronic devices to kids. I started using an electronic device at the age of nine and some starts at 1! If someone or yourself are like the little girl that started using the device at an early age you might have more chances of thinking magazines are useless and really hard to understand. Why would you think magazines are useless? Because you will expect the magazine to act the same way the I-Pad did.
Even kids who never touched a tablet before will still touch the pages of the paper book or try to put the book in his mouth because babies touch everything. Today, it's not because someone only use one kind that he can't understand the other. Now the person who just uses smartphones will still reach out for a mix of paper magazines and paper books, as well as the electronic devices.
Most studies about this subject proved that we read slower, less accurately and we have more difficulties understanding what we read on screen than on paper. The difference between screens and paper are that screens have more chance to drain more of our mental resources while we are reading and it's harder to remember what we read when we are finished.
Many people don't realize it, but most us approach a computer and tablets with our state of mind less prepared to learn than if we read on a handout a teacher gave us. In some studies, people reported that when we were trying to locate a particular piece of written information we would often remember where was the information in the text. In most cases, paper books have more obvious topography than screen book, the book present us the reader two defined domains- left and right pages- and a total of eight corner. It's easier to focus on a paper book because you can focus on a single page without losing track of where you are and you know if you are at the half of the book or not. The kindle will only tell you the number.``The implicit of where you are in a physical book turns out to be more important than we realized.`` says Abigail Sellen of Microsoft. She also said``I don't thing e-book manufacturers have thought enough about how you might visualize where you are in a book.``
A study was published in January 2013, Anne Mangen and her colleagues asked half of 72 10th graders to read a text on paper and the other half the same text but on computer. After the students did a reading-comprehension test. The students who read on the computer got a lower grade than the student who read the test on paper.
MY opinion is no I don't think using I-Pad to read is better for your brain even if I use it for other things. Most of the people including me will use their I-Pad for everything not just reading but also to play game or read the news, watch movies, taking pictures, drawing, etc. We think it's easier using our I-Pad or IPhones because its a small device and has a lot of function just in one thing. Even if we know which one is better adults still get or let use their one year an electronic device at this age. Instead of interacting with paper version. I hope you understand better about thus problem and that you will try to now read more paper books or use paper handouts instead of and pdf file.
You can find the article here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/reading-paper-screens/
Discussion Questions:
1. Which one do you prefer between paper book version or kindles/I-Pad/IPhones/computer and why do you prefer this version? Give at least two reasons or examples.
2.We live in a world where everyone are using electronic devices for everything. Scientist tested the problem, even if we know which one is better we still use the computers. Do you think we should stay like this: with everyone reading or using tablets and with time paper books will probably disappear or put a balance with both of them?
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1. I prefer reading paper books, because you can read whenever you want to, you don't have to use internet, you can donate the book, you can lend it
ReplyDelete2. we should put a balance. because sometimes its better to read on your phone than reading on paper books, cause books waste a lot of paper but at the same time reading on your electronic divices hurts your eyes because of the brightless and the size of the text
I prefer to read on paper book, because it don't harm your eyes much. it will still hurt, if you read in the dark. Every time that I read on Ipad and stuff like that, it always distract me, I don't know why, but It distract me.
ReplyDelete2. now, people are in a very weird system called "head down system" which mean that every one in the street always look at their phone and bump into other person, so we should put some people in the paper book side, because now, there are not many people who still read paper book, so paper book is kind of rejected by people. paper book will save a lot of energy and save our eyes.
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