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Have you tried Hypothes.is for online annotation? I use it a lot, both for fun and for my research. Unlike paper copies, I can access my annotations wherever I am. Cheers, Sarah ________________________________________ From: learning development in higher education network [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jonathan Smart [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 20 October 2017 16:53 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 'A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens' Hi Kelly, Thanks for that - I always regret not having taken a pic of an elderly couple seated opposite me on a train journey once. One was reading from a hard-copy paperback - the other from a Kindle - kind of 'analogue meets digital.' 😊 Best, Jonathan ________________________________ From: Kelly Pickard-Smith <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 20 October 2017 16:22:53 To: Jonathan Smart; [log in to unmask] Subject: RE: 'A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens' Hi Jonathan, there is something in your experience. You can read up on 'digital amnesia' and issues with memory retention from digital media. Also, note taking and the physical activity of using textbooks and writing notes and/or diagrams has been thoroughly investigated as a means to retain information. BW Kelly ________________________________ From: learning development in higher education network [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Jonathan Smart [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 20 October 2017 16:17 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 'A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens' Interesting - supports what I've always believed - i.e. that it's a 'horses for courses' issue. Having just completed an on-line Masters at a distance, I always found that, whilst enjoying the initial 'buzz' from information configured on a screen, I always then printed out the screens for 'deeper' learning and assimilation. Apart from anything else, I'm an inveterate annotator, finding it easier to do this with printed material at the same time as being able to get a more holistic view of the information; I find skimming and scanning easier with a printed page. Regds, Jonathan ________________________________ From: learning development in higher education network <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Gordon Asher <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 20 October 2017 15:53:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 'A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens' Interesting study on reading in different formats and for different purposes? A new study shows that students learn way more effectively from print textbooks than screens http://uk.businessinsider.com/students-learning-education-print-textbooks-screens-study-2017-10?r=US&IR=T Work like you don't need money Love like you've never been hurt and dance like no-one's watching "Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world." Paulo Freire (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) "Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and the young, would be inevitable." 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