Digital vs. Print Media - It's All Just Reading, Right?3/10/2014
Digital text accessed on computers, tablets and e-books are
increasingly replacing traditional print and paper in the classrooms. Educational
technology experts flout the many real benefits of the digital format: easy low-cost
access to content; embedded interactive graphics; cross-linked references; easily
searchable text; filterable bookmarks and annotations; and other
platform-specific tools have revolutionized the way we interact with the
written word.
Or Not...
Digital Texts Adds Challenges:
These last two points touch on fundamental differences in the way that screen and print engage the brain’s sense of spatial relationships.
These factors may be behind the studies[3] that demonstrate that students usually prefer to read complex or long text in paper form. Several studies found that college students will often browse e-books, but print them out to do in-depth study or research.
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