Revolution in Reading

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Revolution in Reading
an attempt to battle against the missionary
position of reading
Donna Leishman
redridinghood

• Evolution of Reading
• New active readership
• The C Revolutions
• Computerization
• Convenience
• Customization

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The Evidence Readers at Risk

• Fewer than half of Americans over 18 now read
  novels, short stories, plays or poetry
• Just 56.6 read a book of any kind in the
  previous year, down from 60.9 percent a decade
  earlier.
• 37.6 of men were doing less literary reading
  than women (55.1 ) Hispanics (26.5 ) were
  doing less than African-Americans (37.1 ) and
  whites (51.4 ) but that all categories were
  declining.
• In 1982, 59.8 of 18-to-24-year-olds read
  literature by 2002 that figure had dropped to
  42.8
• In the 25-to-34 age group, the percentage of
  literary readers dropped to 47.7 from 62.1
• Of literary readers, 43 perform charity work
  only 17 of nonreaders do

17,135 people surveyed - data was compared
with similar studies from 1982 1992 The
Survey of Public Participation in the Arts
United States Census Bureau 2002
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The Evidence The Failure of Technology

• Technology is only great when you know
  how to use it.
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  Dan Hesse, CEO Sprint
• Students surveyed
• Dont like e-learning, too much work
• They want to be connected, principally to one
  another
• They want to be entertained by games, music, and
  movies
• They want to present themselves and their work
• Most faculty still teach as they were taught
• Only use electronics to simplify tasks, not
  change their teaching
• They readily translate lecture notes into
  PowerPoint presentations
• Use Blackboard / WebCT to distribute materials,
  grades assignments
• Result? Higher education's jaundiced view of the
  fundamental value of electronically mediated
  instruction

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(r)Evolutionary (e)Books Mantra

• Recognize ebooks as the latest evolutionary stage
  in the extraordinary history of the book
• Expand the narrow definition of electronic books
  beyond the one accepted and propagated by
  commercial publishers and the media
• Understand the advantages, disadvantages
  future impact of new formats
• Review, assess and interact with critically
  acclaimed digital publications and hardware
• Consider significant issues such as the
  redefinition of the reading, writing and
  creative processes and the future of
  information delivery
• Re-imagine the importance of the book to
  learning and scholarship

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(r)Evolutionary (e)Books The Evolution of the
Book

• Oral tradition
• Wall painting
• Cuneiform / Ideogram
• Alphabets / Calligraphy
• Papyrus / Parchment / Paper
• Binding
• Movable type

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(r)Evolutionary (e)Books A Happening
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(r)Evolutionary (e)Books The Exhibit
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(r)Evolutionary (e)Books On the Road