The social nature of reading and writing has changed

The Social Nature of Reading and Writing Has Changed

• One of the traits that can be observed with the naked eye is that children use pens and paper less and less.
  • Just on the first of September, I asked children to take notes on the tasks they have to complete before the end of the month. Instead of the scratching of pens on paper, I heard clicks from virtual keyboards.
  • The same day, when I taught future teachers The Hero’s Journey, my students, during a 20-minute breakout activity, used phones to create a short story that exemplified elements of Campbell’s classification.
• Screens are replacing paper, and keyboards have displaced pens.
  • The last week of August, parents asked me why their children had such awful handwriting. I answered that they are not used to writing.
  • This statement was met with opposition, which changed into a moment of truth for the majority of them: children do not have a blister on the middle finger of any hand. It only means that they don’t use pens as often as we used to.
  • The only thing that has received something resembling regular use is tougher skin on the tips of their big fingers.
• Screens are replacing paper for leisure activities as well as for entertainment at large.
  • LMS, which is essentially a digital learning environment, has become all-pervasive in every educational establishment.
  • LMSs not only encourage children to use digital mediums more but also do not allow otherwise. They have replaced books with screens.
  • And this trait turns people into less socialized individuals in a book-based reading culture.
    • Yet, textual modality is still the main vehicle of information flow.
    • It remains central, regardless of what the medium is—paper, screen, or voice—especially in an educational context.
    • In fact, it will continue to be the most important cultural activity, we can safely assume, for centuries to come.
    • It has a peculiarly strong reach and universality.
      • It allows communication between different mental faculties, across time and space.
      • And because of that, any changes brought by digitization will have tremendous cognitive, behavioral, and social implications.

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