Posts Tagged ‘ literacy ’

There is a delicious irony about Nicholas Carr’s (2010) new book, The shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains. At the heart of the book is a distinction between two kinds of reading: on the one hand, sustained, absorbed, reflective reading, which Carr compares to scuba diving and associates with print texts;...
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My daughter, Zoë, is four. She’s at a beautiful age – so capable, so eager and brimming with imaginations (her word ). As I think about the many ways that she is developing as a little literate person, I can’t help but think about how the multiple literacies of her life will differ so...
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