Transcript Title of Presentation Subhead - Pew Internet & American Life Project

Reading, Writing, Research
in the Digital Age
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project
9.23.11
School Library Journal Reading Summit
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @Lrainie
PewInternet.org
Anti-executive summary
(Or… Questions I cannot answer)
• Are teens’ attention spans getting
shorter?
• Are teens’ brains being rewired?
• Are teens more narcissistic and more
indifferent to privacy than in the
past?
• What’s the matter with kids today?
What I think I know….
• Reading is its own virtue …. but it is other
things, too…
• Reading (and other media) is raw material
• Reading (and other media) is real-time
• Reading (and other media) is a “social contact
sport”
• New literacies are being elevated
Revolution #1
Internet and
Broadband
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Parents +10-15
65%
62%
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What are some things teens doing online?
• 94% go online to do research for school assignments;
48% do so on a typical day.
• 81% go to websites about movies, TV shows, music
groups, or sports stars
• 57% have watched a video on a video-sharing site
like YouTube
• 55% go online to get information about a college,
university or other school that they are thinking
about attending.
• 48% have bought something online like books,
clothes or music
May 2010
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Reading (and other media) is raw material
• Is there an active fan-fiction base in your
school/community?
• Are there local, teen-produced remix videos in
your school/community?
• Is there a group of students who participate in
“rate the teacher” chatter and websites?
• What is the state of e-book activity in your
district?
Revolution #2
Wireless
Connectivity
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35% own “smartphones”
3/28/2016
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Consequences for information ecosystem
Any device
Anywhere
Place
Presence
Alone
together
Any time
Reading (and other media) is real time
• Are there homework-help programs in your
community?
• Do you use texting in any way to interact with
teens?
• Are there other examples of how those who
connect “on the go” can tap into your
reference and other reading services?
• Are there any mobile apps that you see teens
using to do their school work?
Revolution #3
Social
Networking
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Twitter
Reading (and other media) is a
social contact sport
• Do you see evidence of more collaboration
among students as they study?
– In social media spaces?
• Do some students give “status updates” as
they progress through their reading?
• Do students share their underlining and
notes?
New literacies are being elevated
- screen literacy - graphics and symbols
- navigation literacy
- connections and context literacy
- skepticism
- value of contemplative time
- how to create content/knowledge
- personal information literacy
- ethical behavior in new world
June 25, 2010
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Networked readers and learners
of the future
• More self directed and less dependent on top-down
instructions
• Better arrayed to capture new information inputs
• More reliant on feedback and response
• More attuned to group outreach and group
knowledge
• More open to cross discipline insights, creating their
own “tagged” taxonomies
• More oriented towards people being their own
individual nodes of production
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Thank you!