Tag: Reading Comprehension

  • Students Learn Better When Reading on Paper

    New research from the National Reading Centre at the University of Stavanger has found that reading on paper leads to better comprehension and attention than reading on screens, particularly for students with weaker reading skills. The study, led by researcher Viktoria Holsey Foss, highlights the challenges that digital reading environments can create. Online reading often…

    Students Learn Better When Reading on Paper - CW
  • Should You Annotate Books?

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    Reading can sometimes be treated as an almost sacred activity. Some believe that books have to be kept pristine, their pages untouched except for the occasional bookmark slipped between chapters. Writing in the margins or folding corners is considered by many readers to be a form of damage. Today, however, attitudes are changing. Across social…

  • The Changing Classroom

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    Education systems are navigating a period of notable change. The digitisation of the past two decades has reshaped classrooms, offering new ways to access information and deliver lessons. At the same time, it has raised questions about how digital tools affect learning, concentration, and development. As schools have rapidly adopted these technologies, there is a…

  • Why digital content could be bad news for the brain?

    A steady diet of digital content is turning us into a world of skim-readers, which is bad news for our brains. Here’s a stat to mull over: the average human mind will consume around 34GB of data every single day. That data comes in the form of TV, music, adverts, videos, emails, websites and apps.…