From a
Fast Company article on the effectiveness of e-readers in education:
The digital text also disrupted a technique called cognitive mapping, in which readers used physical cues such as the location on the page and the position in the book to go back and find a section of text or even to help retain and recall the information they had read.
In my experience reading ebooks for the past eight months or so, this has been the biggest challenge. It's not an issue for easier books or novels, but it really makes academic and difficult books even harder to follow and remember. Which leads to an interesting question:
Could books have developed not simply because they were the available technology, but because they actually convey information to our brains in a more efficient way? If we're pushing technologies for learning that, cognitively, make it harder to learn, we need to take a step back.
Read the
article here
Howdy.
ReplyDeleteRE: real books v. ebooks. I agree with you. For transmitting info from the outside world into the Soul a book is about as perfect as anything can be in this present world. The only ebook I have read is Allan Bloom's "The Closing of The American Mind." The result of that experience was to rush-order a hard copy.
Thank you for publishing this blog. The experience of my salvation began in 1982. I was 36YOA @ the time; full of lust & malice. Since then I have been learning a lot about deceptive effects produced by the once-forbidden and then rebelliously misappropriated knowledge of good and evil along with the inevitable necessity of God's Intervention to prevent Soul-destruction. I thank God for His Grace & Goodwill toward men. I am presently reading Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky's "Worlds In Collision". I had my doubts until I reached the final chapters dealing with the clay tablets found in the Royal Library @ Nineveh. What a WORLD!