Are Enhanced E-books Bad For Kids' Reading Skills?

[This test was on 3-6-year-olds, so it deals only with a short life

segment; while it suggests what one instinctively expects - distractions
are distractions are distractions - it does not prove anything about
future ability or concentration. However, if concentration skills of
teenagers who are long-term users of the technologies are considered,
the future for deep thought looks bleak!]

Are Enhanced E-books Bad For Kids' Reading Skills?
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/35953-41033

http://paidcontent.org/2012/05/29/are-enhanced-e-books-bad-for-kids-reading-skills/
'...Kids who read enhanced e-books remembered “significantly fewer
narrative details than children who read the print version of the same
story.â€...'


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