Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World Audiobook (Free)

From the writer of Proust as well as the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the continuing future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies.

A decade ago, Maryanne Wolf’s Proust and the Squid revealed what we realize about how the brain learns to learn and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Since that time, the methods we process written language have changed about Reader, Come Home: The Reading Human brain in an electronic World dramatically with many concerned about both their own adjustments and that of children. New research on the reading brain chronicles these adjustments in the brains of children and adults as they learn to read while immersed inside a digitally dominated medium.

Drawing deeply upon this study, this book comprises some letters Wolf writes to us-her beloved readers-to explain her issues and her hopes about what is happening to the reading brain since it unavoidably changes to adjust to digital mediums. Wolf boosts difficult questions, including:

Can children learn to incorporate the full range of ‘deep reading’ functions that are in the core of the expert reading brain?Will the mix of a seemingly infinite set of distractions for children’s attention and their quick access to immediate, voluminous information modify their ability to believe for themselves?With information at their fingertips, will the next generation learn to build their own storehouse of knowledge, which could impede the ability to produce analogies and draw inferences from what they know?Will each one of these influences, in turn, modify the formation in kids and the use in adults of ‘slower’ cognitive processes like critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy that consist of deep reading which influence both how exactly we think and how we live our lives?Will the chain of digital affects ultimately influence the use of the critical analytical and empathic capacities essential for a democratic society?How can we preserve deep reading procedures in potential iterations of the reading brain?Who are the ‘good readers’ of every epoch?Concerns about attention period, critical reasoning, and over-reliance on technology should never be just about children-Wolf herself has found that, though she actually is a reading expert, her capability to go through deeply continues to be impacted as she has become, inevitably, increasingly reliant on screens.

Wolf draws on neuroscience, books, education, technology, and viewpoint and mixes historical, literary, and scientific information with down-to-earth examples and warm anecdotes to illuminate organic ideas that culminate within a proposal to get a biliterate reading human brain. Provocative and intriguing, Reader, Come Home is definitely a roadmap that provides a cautionary but hopeful perspective within the effect of technology on our brains and our most important intellectual capacities-and what this may mean for our upcoming.