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- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one can ever prepare a parent for two things: the immeasurable love that comes with having a child; and the sorrow and confusion that comes when your child appears to learn in a different way from other children.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to move into the 21st century, but we should do so with great care to build a 'bi-literate' brain that has the circuitry for 'deep reading' skills and, at the same time, is adept with technology.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is constantly adapting.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I work in a mix of areas and am informed by them all: child development, psycholinguistics, education, and most especially, cognitive neuroscience.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
The acquisition of literacy is one of the most important epigenetic achievements of Homo sapiens. To our knowledge, no other species ever acquired it.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
- Depending
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is plastic its whole life span.
- Entwined
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literacy is so much entwined in our lives that we often fail to realize that the act of reading is a miracle that is evolving under our fingertips.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always worried about who can read, who can't, who doesn't, and the great, life-altering consequences hidden within those distinctions.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.
- Empathy
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth.
- Limits
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- Nov 07, 2020
We would be the worst of fools if we would ever lose this extraordinary capacity to go beyond the limits of past thought and past prejudices.
- Accurately
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every opportunity to practice is a gift to the developing reader. Practice, practice, practice, in every form and medium!
- Developmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fluency is the developmental process that connects decoding with everything we know about words to make the meaning of the text come to life. Fluency is a wonderful bridge to comprehension and to a life-long love of reading.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an individual waste and it's an economic waste for Australia not to recognise dyslexia.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no question that our children's attention and memory is changing when they are reading too long, too much, too early on digital screens.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.
- Deep
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are the worst of fools if we do not teach every child to become truly expert, deep readers.
- Poets
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- Nov 07, 2020
In reading, we are both scientists and poets.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want children to learn to develop deep reading skills in the beginning in print. I believe the physicality of print is much better in the beginning for children, and then help them learn how to use their deep reading skills on digital medium.
- Teachers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want technology to replace teachers, but where there are no teachers, or the teachers are overwhelmed, it can be helpful.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are not only what we read. We are how we read.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a richness that reading gives you, an opportunity to probe more than any other medium I know of. Reading is about not being content with the surface.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective.
- Cognitive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have any function, whether it's language or vision or cognitive functions like memory, we aren't dealing with a straight line to the brain that says 'This is what I do.' The brain builds a network of connections, a network of neurons that have a particular role in that function.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Focused reading is so important, and I'm just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.
- Examining
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- Nov 07, 2020
Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively challenging. I think that leads people to accept truly false news without examining it, without being analytical.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reading is a bridge to thought.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.
- Contemplative
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inevitably, there will be many aspects of culture that would benefit from a more reflective or contemplative approach to them.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to discern what it is that requires reflection in our lives and in what we read and how we read it.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
The questions that our society must ask revolve around whether the time-consuming demands of the deep-reading processes will be lost in a culture whose principal mediums advantage speed, multitasking, and processing the next and the next piece of information.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020