BS 145 The Reading Brain with Maryanne Wolf
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
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Deep Reading and Critical Analytical Thinking in the Digital Medium
The digital world is going to certainly help visual intelligence but that can be at the expense of what I call deep reading and she calls deep processing. In a digital medium with its advantaging of multitasking quick integration of multiple pieces of information, you are not allocating time to critical analysis or analogical thinking. It makes us more likely to be swayed by ever quicker bursts of information from sources that don't challenge us. We end up with a vulnerability, I believe, to demagoguery, to fake news, to sassle unanalyzed information.
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