Technology Integration Matrix. Shock the System | Startl. Imagine K12 - Home. Reading on a Kindle or iPad is NOT Reading … So, They Say … Maybe it is Better. Reading on a Kindle or iPad is NOT Reading ... So, They Say ... Maybe it is Better In his book, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! Dr. While all reports indicate that daily media use among children and teens is mushrooming, reading printed books has remained constant at about 25 minutes per day. At this point I would venture to guess that you are shaking your head in astonishment at my audacity to assert that any type of reading is reading. But should the act of reading be confined to an individualized, sedentary, solitary activity? Carr argues that the "words of books are extracted from the printed page and embedded in the computer's ecology of interruption technologies. " I bought a Kindle when they first came out in late 2007 (yes, that's right, the Kindle is only two and a half years old!)
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