{"id":8428,"date":"2024-01-17T20:28:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T20:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8428"},"modified":"2024-01-17T20:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T20:28:49","slug":"a-groundbreaking-study-shows-kids-learn-better-on-paper-not-screens-now-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8428","title":{"rendered":"A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/17\/kids-reading-better-paper-vs-screen\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c4368b264bf293b0e499f0a83b8bfcfcae1baa4c\/0_0_4992_2995\/master\/4992.jpg?width=465&amp;dpr=1&amp;s=none\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For \u2018deeper reading\u2019 among children aged 10-12, paper trumps screens. What does it mean when schools are going digital?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The title of this Guardian story says it all, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/17\/kids-reading-better-paper-vs-screen\">A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?<\/a> The story reports on a study led by Karen Froud at Columbia University titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biorxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2023.08.30.553693v1\">Middle-schoolers\u2019 reading and processing depth in response to digital and print media: An N400 study<\/a>. They found &#8220;evidence of differences in brain responses to texts presented in print and digital media, including deeper semantic encoding for print than digital texts.&#8221; Paper works better.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>John Gabrieli, an MIT neuroscientist who is skeptical about the promises of big tech and its salesmen: \u201cI am impressed how educational technology has had no effect on scale, on reading outcomes, on reading difficulties, on equity issues,\u201d&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For \u2018deeper reading\u2019 among children aged 10-12, paper trumps screens. What does it mean when schools are going digital? The title of this Guardian story says it all, A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what? The story reports on a study led by Karen Froud at Columbia University titled, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=8428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A groundbreaking study shows kids learn better on paper, not screens. Now what?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-education","category-education-and-administration","category-interface-design-and-usability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8429,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8428\/revisions\/8429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}