The Guardian – Dawn of the digital natives
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/07/internet.literacy
National Endowment for the Arts – National Endowment for the Arts Announces New Reading Study
http://www.nea.gov/news/news07/TRNR.html
To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (Full report)
http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf
The photos above are From To Read or Not To Read (Research Report #47), courtesy of the National Endowment for the Arts
報告結論
- Less reading for pleasure in late adolescence than in younger age groups
- Declines in reading test scores among 17-year-olds and high school seniors in contrast to younger age groups and lower grade levels
- Among high school seniors, a wider rift in the reading scores of advanced and deficient readers
- A male-female gap in reading proclivity and achievement levels
- A sharp divide in the reading skills of incarcerated adults versus non-prisoners
- Greater academic, professional, and civic benefits associated with high levels of leisure reading and reading comprehension
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HeyJude – Digital natives and their reading
http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/digital-natives-and-their-reading/
一如我之前所言
Alan Poon’s Blog – 台灣和香港人的閱讀習慣
http://alanpoon.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/台灣和香港人的閱讀習慣/
既然「年輕世代已經習慣網路閱讀的模式」，那將電子書、網絡文章計算在內不是更能反映實際國/市民的閱讀時間嗎？
青少年是會主動學習和創造的，網絡就是現今他們非常喜歡逗留的一個世界。在這個接通全世界的網絡上，他們會閱讀、寫作、對話、搜集、分享、合作、創作等，這其實跟我們上一輩整天通山跑、周圍闖蕩差不多。
份報告在 24 頁說明
Unless “book-reading” is specifically mentioned, study results on voluntary reading should be taken as referencing all varieties of leisure reading (e.g., magazines, newspapers, online reading), and not books alone.
看來是一個突破，但為什麼數據會那麼不乎現實？還是說 online reading 在定義上有嚴重的分歧，以致有部分我認為屬閱讀的卻沒有列入計算之內？而報告沒有反映新閱讀模式對新一代的正面影響又是何解？
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A VC – What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media
http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/01/what-my-kids-te.html
Read/WriteWeb – New Study Shows that Online Creativity and E-learning Popular with Kids
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nsba_study_shows_that_online_creativity_increasing.php
Business Week – Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing Online
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm
PBS – FRONTLINE: growing up online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
Chapter 1: Living Their Lives Essentially Online
補充 (Mar 18, 2008)
ReadWriteWeb – Steve Jobs Was Only Half-Right: People Do Read – Even Kids – They Just Do It Online
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/people_do_read_they_just_do_it_online.php
補充 (Jul 29, 2008)
NYTimes.com – Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
… some literacy experts say that online reading skills will help children fare better when they begin looking for digital-age jobs.
The simplest argument for why children should read in their leisure time is that it makes them better readers. According to federal statistics, students who say they read for fun once a day score significantly higher on reading tests than those who say they never do.
Department of Education statistics also show that those who score higher on reading tests tend to earn higher incomes.
The only kind of reading that related to higher academic performance was frequent novel reading, which predicted better grades in English class and higher overall grade point averages.
Elizabeth Birr Moje, a professor at the University of Michigan who led the study (how reading on the Internet affects reading skills), said novel reading was similar to what schools demand already. But on the Internet, she said, students are developing new reading skills that are neither taught nor evaluated in school.
One early study showed that giving home Internet access to low-income students appeared to improve standardized reading test scores and school grades. “These were kids who would typically not be reading in their free time,” said Linda A. Jackson, a psychology professor at Michigan State who led the research. “Once they’re on the Internet, they’re reading.”
Web proponents believe that strong readers on the Web may eventually surpass those who rely on books. Reading five Web sites, an op-ed article and a blog post or two, experts say, can be more enriching than reading one book.
“It takes a long time to read a 400-page book,” said Mr. Spiro of Michigan State. “In a tenth of the time,” he said, the Internet allows a reader to “cover a lot more of the topic from different points of view.”
Some literacy experts say that reading itself should be redefined. Interpreting videos or pictures, they say, may be as important a skill as analyzing a novel or a poem.
“Kids are using sound and images so they have a world of ideas to put together that aren’t necessarily language oriented,” said Donna E. Alvermann, a professor of language and literacy education at the University of Georgia. “Books aren’t out of the picture, but they’re only one way of experiencing information in the world today.”
Experts on reading difficulties suggest that for struggling readers, the Web may be a better way to glean information. “When you read online there are always graphics,” said Sally Shaywitz, the author of “Overcoming Dyslexia” and a Yale professor. “I think it’s just more comfortable and — I hate to say easier — but it more meets the needs of somebody who might not be a fluent reader.”
… about a third of the students in the study (comparing performance on traditional state reading tests with a specially designed Internet reading test), led by Professor Leu, scored below average on traditional reading tests but did well on the Internet assessment.
But according to Stephen Denis, product manager at ETS (Educational Testing Service), of the more than 20,000 students who have taken the iSkills test (digital literacy test) since 2006, only 39 percent of four-year college freshmen achieved a score that represented “core functional levels” in Internet literacy.
顧慮
Some traditionalists warn that digital reading is the intellectual equivalent of empty calories. Often, they argue, writers on the Internet employ a cryptic argot that vexes teachers and parents. Zigzagging through a cornucopia of words, pictures, video and sounds, they say, distracts more than strengthens readers. And many youths spend most of their time on the Internet playing games or sending instant messages, activities that involve minimal reading at best.
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iLibrarian – Literacy and Online Reading
http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2008/literacy-and-online-reading/
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無神論者的巴別塔 – 保險：生老病死的賭博
http://www.cuhkacs.org/~henryporter/blog/read.php?551
保險 – 按需要而買的保障…
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有涯小札 – 不要恭喜我發財
http://taogate.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/no-kung-hei-fat-choi/
傳統習俗格格不入於現代社會…
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治療師筆記 – 尷尷尬尬收利是
http://mpc221.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=998259
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石墨工房 5.1β – 書的腰帶
http://fred.ipod.to/blog/?post;1407
未回到家就會皺的無用小紙條 (只會令我心疼)…
補充 (Feb 12, 2008)
http://fred.ipod.to/blog/?post;1411
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Webware.com – Photographer finds Flickr pics sold on iStockphoto
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9867114-2.html
小心有人盜賣你的照片或作品…
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::littleoslo::..::Blog:: – 從Flickr到Virgin Mobile的知識共享以外
http://www.littleoslo.com/cnt/home/?p=1053
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ReadWriteWeb – Yahoo! Launches Live Video Service and We Cover it…Live…Sort of
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_live.php
Yahoo! Live
http://live.yahoo.com/
Broadcast yourself! The rise of video podcast?
未知會否因 Flash 的問題而同樣未能在 Eee PC 中使用
TokBox
http://www.tokbox.com/
Eee PC Blog – Eee PC 非官方部落格 Ver：2.5 – Eee PC 在 TokBox 的測試 – 網路視訊！http://www.tokbox.com
http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/eee-pc/article?mid=1276&next=1264&l=f&fid=23
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Webware.com – Digsby links all IMs with e-mail, Facebook, MySpace
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9866737-2.html
(Credit: Jeff Hester, BigBlueBall.com)
(Credit: Jeff Hester, BigBlueBall.com)
digsby
http://www.digsby.com/
真的有需要同時攪那麼多關係嗎？
若然有，用 Social Web Browser
Flock
http://www.flock.com/
就最岩不過了…
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ReadWriteWeb – Your MySpace Web Browser Is Coming
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/your_myspace_web_browser_is_co.php
