![]() ![]() Well, this sounded promising, so I decided to read for myself Anne Mangen’s excellent work, including later papers she co-authored with the neuroscientist Jean-Luc Velay of the University of Aix-Marseille. According to Mangen, Ellen Lee told me, the print-reading students scored better on their reading comprehension test than the digital- reading students. Among them were a 2011 University of Oregon study that found better recall of news stories read in printed newspapers than when they were read online, but a more significant one had been conducted by a Norwegian Professor of Literacy named Anne Mangen, whose 2013 study compared the reading of texts in print and on a screen among high school students. At the veryīack of the audience there happened to be a 2001 graduate of the Journalism School, Ellen Lee, who asked a question and then later approached me after the event: “There have been studies,” she told me. Mentioned comprehension, but what I said was good enough. This narrative would have been pedagogically and Socratically improved if I had voiced my exhortation as a question, and had also And what if we find out the retention rate is 30 % less, 50 % less ? The consequences could be catastrophic.” I tell the provost, my friend John Coatsworth – I’ve told him this ten times - you gotta get the neurological institute to do this study. With due acknowledgement to YouTube, I quote myself: “There needs to be a study done at the new Zuckerman neurological institute at Columbia, you know, a real controlled test of reading on a screen versus reading on the page and seeing what the retention rate is. Nevertheless, something in his critique of my critique stuck in my brain – was retained, shall we say - and about ten minutes later – I can’t tell you why - I came back to Steve’s comments. Among them were, and I quote, in part: “You have a younger generation that doesn’t read and is proud of it.” I challenged Steve back, but I didn’t really address his counternarrative about what was killing newspapers and magazines. Historian, who challenged my critique of digitized journalism and itsĭepredations - especially Google’s larcenous, monopolistic stranglehold on the advertising market and its systematic violation of copyright - by suggesting that there were other profound problems unrelated to Google or the internet afflicting the journalism and publishing business. A pointed one came from Stephen Schlesinger, a very fine Nine years ago, on Apto be exact, I delivered the Delacorte lecture at the Columbia Journalism School, a few blocks from here, and my faculty host, Victor Navasky, had opened the floor to questions. And the brief story I’m about to tell – the story that has brought us to today’s exciting symposium at Teachers College (an independent, autonomous, separately- governed affiliate of Columbia University) – will, I hope, testify clearly to the success of one of the central missions of this great university – the mission to propagate knowledge, based on highly sophisticated research, that can sometimes originate with one simple notion. But as I learned as an undergraduate here, that’s no reason not to try to pierce the veil, to understand the mystery. Vast in its resources, affiliates, and bureaucracy, Columbia University in the City of New York can seem opaque and intimidating to someone with a new idea to propose, or just a new question to pose. ![]() Universities work in mysterious ways - none, perhaps, more mysteriously than Columbia. Columbia University Teachers College Neurosciene DPM Study Speech, September 23, 2023 ![]()
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