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Are kids tethered to electronic devices? Tarmar Lewin writes in <\/em>the New York Times <\/em>that the “average young American now spends practically every waking minute \u2014 except for the time in school \u2014 using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/20\/education\/20wired.html?scp=1&sq=children%20awake%20online&st=cse<\/p>\n Here’s my question: are adults tethered to electronic devices? And why is there a sudden moral panic about children texting and talking on their cellphones when adults spend so much of their time doing the same thing? Are kids getting older younger? Are they exposed through electronic media to words and images that even they do not want to see? What is lost in the transition from print culture\/books to Kindles, Nooks, and i-pads? Will children get lost in stories? Can they still practice what Tim Wynne-Jones calls the deep read?<\/p>\n \u201cThe deep-read is when you get gut-hooked and dragged overboard down and down through the maze of print and find, to your amazement, you can breathe down there after all and there\u2019s a whole other world. I\u2019m talking about the kind of reading when you realize that books are indeed interactive. . . . I\u2019m talking about the kind of deep-read where it isn\u2019t just the plot or the characters that matter, but the words and the way they fit together and the meandering evanescent thoughts you think between the lines: the kind of reading where you are fleetingly aware of your own mind at work.\u201d<\/p>\n These are some of the questions we considered this week in my class on Childhood. For the first time, I began to have the feeling that the medium affects not only the message but also rewires our brains. Is there such a thing as deep reading in an age of electronic devices. When I read books on a Kindle, I have a slightly eerie sensation: the words seem to disappear as I “consume” them. But who knows–that may change over time as I become more adept at using the various features on the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are kids tethered to electronic devices? Tarmar Lewin writes in the New York Times that the “average young American now spends practically every waking minute \u2014 except for the time in school \u2014 using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/20\/education\/20wired.html?scp=1&sq=children%20awake%20online&st=cse Here’s my question: are adults tethered to electronic devices? And why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26363],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}