We have a practice at home: one day per week we have a ‘reading evening’. No TV is allowed: after dinner we take a book and we read all together.
Now what’s happening lately is that my 8-yrs-old digital-native heavy-iPad-user computer-enthusiast son started saying:
“OK Dad tonight we have our reading evening and you cannot read with the iPad, you have to use a paper book”
So I asked:
“why????”
And he said …. ok I don’t want to tell you the answer immediately :).
You guess: why he doesn’t want me to read with the iPad?
PierG
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November 22, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Kurt Häusler
No ligatures! At least not on the Kindle app.
December 7, 2012 at 12:05 pm
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Hi PierGiorgio,
I am making a guess. I think reading a book printed book is more meaningful for the kids as they may perceive to have a better control over the co-reading experience. With digital mediums adults and children often over get distracted with non -story related subjects.
Also I am not sure, but maybe the digital medium may not match the visual representation of a story, unless ofcourse it also contains the audio, like a cartoon film, but I am sure e-book manufacturers will be working on this already.
By the way for being an IT guys, you express yourself in a very freindly language.
Satyen, Modena, Italy
December 19, 2012 at 8:47 am
PierG
Thank you Satyen and happy to see that you are writing from my area 🙂
December 19, 2012 at 2:05 pm
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lovely to hear back from you PierGiorgio
I see that among so many interests of yours you have- NLP and Coaching. I have just started studying NLP.
I have come across very few people in this area of Italy, who know NLP and can engage in english conversation so well.
Maybe a good idea would be to meet sometime for an aperitivo ! What do you think ?
Bon natale
satyen