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Maryanne Wolf

American Educator

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Reading is a bridge to thought. Maryanne Wolf

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Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing. Maryanne Wolf

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After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read. Maryanne Wolf

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Deep reading refers to a whole continuum of processes that include some of the most important things about thinking and how we connect thought to what we read - critical analysis, analogical reasoning, how we infer from the text, how do we take another's perspective. Maryanne Wolf

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What we read, how we read, and why we read change how we think. Maryanne Wolf

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Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause. Maryanne Wolf

I worry that the superficial way we read during the day is affecting us when we have to read with more in-depth processing. Maryanne Wolf

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The integration of the simpler and the deeper reading processes is not automatic and requires years of learning by the novice reader, as well as extra milliseconds for any expert to read a more sophisticated text. Maryanne Wolf

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We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language; it needs an environment to develop. Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements - from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used. Maryanne Wolf

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I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia. Maryanne Wolf

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Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity. Maryanne Wolf

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The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it. Maryanne Wolf

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given. Maryanne Wolf

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The brain is constantly adapting. Maryanne Wolf

Adapting Constantly Brain

We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read. Maryanne Wolf

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Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new. Maryanne Wolf

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The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain's repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit's connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought. Maryanne Wolf

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My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives. Maryanne Wolf

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There are, no doubt, as many conceptualizations of the good life as there are lives that aspire to it, but surely one of the most important pathways to its achievement begins with the desire to seek what is good - for the self, for those we love, for 'our neighbor,' for our earth. Maryanne Wolf

The most basic definition of fluency is simply the ability to read text accurately and quickly. Maryanne Wolf

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In reading, we are both scientists and poets. Maryanne Wolf

Reading Both Poets Scientists

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