BookTok Bookshelves initiative aims to boost literacy in the UK
“We hope the BookTok Bookshelves will increase young people’s appetite for reading and therefore the demand for books, forming part of a reading ecosystem"
“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“ #literacy#education#LanguageArts
Reading for Justice: An Evening with Mac Marquis and Victoria Law
Join One Book One New Orleans and Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners for a conversation about #SocialJustice, #literacy, #activism, and more. Mac Marquis, author of Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement and Victoria Law, author "Prisons Make Us Safer" and Twenty Other Myths About Mass Incarceration, will discuss their books and their justice-focused work. Guests will also hear from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners and One Book One New Orleans about their efforts at the local level.
This event will take place on Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 6:00 PM at the Community Book Center (2523 Bayou Road). The event is FREE, family-friendly, and open to the public. Complimentary refreshments will be served.
This isn't at all the answer to what you asked, but I hope you can forgive my asking that, if you use the F-droid store on Android, may I recommend an app called Cool Reader, and a cheap Google Play Store app text to speech engine by Cereproc?
The voice might be a bit "Steven Hawking", but having one's phone read books to oneself opens a vein of the richest thoughts of humankind throughout time.
Whether you want to "read" a medical handbook of ADHD, or Adam Smith's Theories of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth Of Nations, or The Rise And Fall Of The Great Powers, or Flatland, or Seneca's Letters To Lucilius, or Wind Sand And Stars: if you can find them in epub, you can smash them into your brain as easily as Keanu Reeves in a dystopian future.
(Hint1: you can find them in epub. The best books are long out of copyright, and can be found on "pirate libraries" like z-lib, Anna's Archive, or libgen. Hint2: if reading from a mobile 'phone screen consider fettling the settings. Amber text on a black background, with font and margins tailored to your taste is invariably far finer than the default settings. Hint 3: I previously tried Cool Reader from the play store and it had been compiled by a third party with advertising nonsense and God knows what else. Get the F-droid store and install it from there for your own security. It's open-source and doesn't try to send your data anywhere. Hint4: for complex subjects while driving etc you might consoder altering the reading speed.)
New! preprint coauthored with Charles Hulme: "When alternative analyses of the same data come to different conclusions: A tutorial using DeclareDesign with a worked real-world example".
We use DeclareDesign to compare 2 analyses of a RCT of Graphogame intervention that came to different conclusions https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/vzg3e #intervention#analysis#simulation#literacy
Tomorrow we start our celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth with some of our favorite books by Black authors and illustrators. These beautiful books celebrate the Black achievement and center Black stories, culture, and communities! 🌟💙📚
To help us celebrate, consider running a #ChildrensBookDrive or donate YOUR favorite children’s book to our #BookBank.
Learn more about our mission at #ChildrensBookProject. Check out the link in bio to Give Books, Get Books, Volunteer, Organize a Book Drive, and Donate!
We hear about media literacy today. Media literacy is not simple awareness to one's own belief system expressed in media. Media literacy is a keen ability to accurately assess what is [not] being said through [digital] media.
For example, this news aggregation page and media literacy considerations.
Tags attached to news articles: Helpful, yet hold bias.
Precise word choices: Select audiences targeted.
Red flags: On misinformation, disinformation, or malinformation.
How can we use digital media so that they make us empowered participants rather than passive receivers, grounded, well-rounded people rather than multitasking basket cases? In Net Smart, cyberculture expert Howard Rheingold shows us how to use social media intelligently, humanely, and, above all, mindfully."
I prefer turning the pages of a book to using an e-reader so this report makes me feel happy.
E-readers were supposed to kill printed books. Instead, they're booming
Sales of print books enjoying lift from success of genre fiction and interest from young readers.