Online Learning Will Change Kids' Brains. Are We Ready?

Written in August 2020 as classrooms went remote: what sustained screen-based learning means for developing reading brains, and how Wolf adapted her own thinking to pandemic reality.

Before the pandemic, my research focused on a biliterate brain in which children learned to read almost solely with print, while key cognitive skills like coding were learned on digital screens… The realities of this pandemic have complicated that approach.

— Maryanne Wolf, The Guardian

Read the full essay at The Guardian.

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