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The impact of online learning on child development and reading skills

For the past two years, and the current situation is still ongoing, humanity has faced a global pandemic that has forcibly directed real life to the virtual. Socialization and contacts are kept to a minimum, and the virtual world is growing and evolving. The virtual world has entered all pores of society, including education, so the teaching process was doomed to virtual online teaching. Although digitalization is an unstoppable process, the question arises as to how much this process affects the reading abilities of us humans, especially children. It has been proven that man mastered the ability to read relatively late only with the invention of the script thousands of years ago. However, scientists have found that reading in depth is lost with the advent of new media, primarily screen reading. According to Maryanne Wolf, we face a significant challenge of developing a biliteral brain that can read and understand text written on paper and digital media. The presentation will show how digital media and online learning negatively affect the development of children’s reading skills and what needs to be done to enable children to successfully read and understand what is read in the digital world in which they live.

online learning, biliteral brain, reading development, reading skills, Maryanne Wolf

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