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READING AND WELLBEINGScience and strategies
with Nicola
Morganwww.nicolamorgan.com
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More information
• Your handouts• My website (www.nicolamorgan.com)
– Today’s blog Handouts with hyperlinks This presentation
– Lots of free things– Teaching resources – discount code
• Free Brain Sane newsletter: wellbeing, brains, adolescence, stress, science of reading and learning, digital/online effects
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This afternoon
1. How the brain reads2. What differences our choices make3. The science of reading as a route to
wellbeing performance– And how to encourage it
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Brain “plasticity”
• Brain is “plastic” = anything we do changes it• “Use it or lose it” • When we do something a lot, we grow
relevant areas – (more connections)– London taxi driver study
• Grow areas at expense of others– Time spent and space available
• TIME spent on activity is crucial
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What does reading do to our brain?
• Changes it – and therefore us• Not evolved to read (see Proust + the Squid)• We borrow from other areas:– Visual/perceptual/spatial– Linguistic– Cognitive– Motor
• So, time spent reading grows some networks at the expense of others
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Have we damaged our brains?!Matthew H. Schneps:
An astrophysicist with dyslexia
Quotes from Scientific American Mind, Aug 19 2014
“The Advantages of Dyslexia”
Bet he canspell it, too
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We’re reading 3x (?) as much as in 1980
But of what?1. More simple texts2. More non-fiction3. More online/screen
See THE ORGANIZED MIND by Daniel Levitin
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1. Simple or complex?
• “Obscurantism” – remember more?• Research with Wordsworth + Shakespeare:– Remember/comprehend more– More brain activity in language areas AND
autobiographical memory AND emotion• Our brains like to be woken up?– If text looks hard, our brain prepares
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2. Fiction or non-fiction?
• Should value all reading choices, but… • Might story be crucial to empathy?• Keith Oatley + Raymond Marr – – Such Stuff as Dreams (book)– Onfiction (blog)– Article referenced on your handout
• No! CAUTION re this research
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Caution about this research
• Laboratory-based, measuring something hard to measure
• Doesn’t look at different types/quality of factual writing
• Crucial that children read – need to enjoy• Four words: Diary Of Anne Frank…
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2. Digital or print?
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2. Offline: ebook readers
• Evidence: digital may slightly impair comprehension + recall
• But research is ongoing and very specific– See New Scientist 29/10/2014 (handout)
• Some e-readers also bring distraction• Many find harder to find “engagement”?
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Online
• Mostly information / factual• Shorter and shallower?• Faster? • Competition on page and in room– Decisions about links– Distractions
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Suggested positives?
• Getting better skimming? (Probably)• Getting better at finding info? (Yes, but not
remembering. Might be OK?)• Better at avoiding distractions? (No) • Better at multi-tasking? (No)
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Multi-tasking problems
• “Bandwidth” problems – capacity is c.120bps• Loss of focus and concentration – *• Attempt causes stress and overload• Lower performance on certain tasks – those
requiring concentration
Again, see The Organized Mind
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Other negatives about online
• Exhausting; low-level anxiety• Can affect sleep• Poorer memory• More TIME online = less what? – Physical exercise – (good for brain)– Time to think and be creative– Time to rest or do nothing– Time for reading for pleasure, “engagement”
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• “Just over 36% of the world’s population is projected to use a smartphone by 2018, up from about 10% in 2011.”
Source: Statista, The Statistics Portal
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The answer is not reading more
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Readaxation
Definition: “Reading to relax, as a conscious strategy for wellbeing and stress management. The aim is to feel and function well.”
Relaxation is not a luxury
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Benefits of R4P – evidence!
Reading Agency Literature Review 2015: • Self-esteem; greater life satisfaction• Increased vocab and general knowledge• Increased empathy + self-understanding• Better mood + relationships• Reduced stress
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How do we make it happen?
Victor Nell (1988) The psychology of reading for pleasure: Needs and gratifications. “Unless people experience reading as a pleasurable activity, they will stop reading and choose more enjoyable alternatives.”
Also see Nell’s book, Lost in a Book
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“Motivational Flowchart”
A FLOWCHART!
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1. Nell’s “Motivational Flowchart”
If Adequate skills + Correct book selection + Expectation of benefit => Will try pleasure reading If physiological + cognitive benefits ensue: more pleasure reading. If not, other activity.
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Possible benefits• You feel less stressed• You can switch off from worries • Helps you get to sleep • Helps you understand other people better • Helps you face and understand difficult times • Helps you know more about the world – including facts • Improves imagination/creativity • Helps you succeed better at school • Increases vocabulary • Improves confidence and self-esteem
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Use my Readaxation diary
• See handout
• Discuss relaxation/stress benefits with students: give them autonomy
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2. Properly value it• Mantra: not luxury – affects performance• This pleasure has no negative and lots of
positive side-effects – know the evidence• Model reading pleasure ourselves• Is your school library the “heart of the
school”?– SoA campaign and award
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3. Make time for it
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How?
• SMT + teachers must be onside• DEAR, ERIC• Classroom boxes – subj teachers onside• Educate re sleep – digital switch-off before
bed time to read• Library as sanctuary
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In summary
• Relaxation is not a luxury but necessary for health and wellbeing
• Readaxation is not the only way to relax but it is a perfect one, and science proves it
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