This episode re-imagines the future of reading. We examine whether reading in print or digitally has an impact on the way we read, and on the evolution of our species as a learning species. We ask, what does the skills future of reading look like? And how do we ensure we embrace all the different complexities and elements of reading as parents, educators, learners, and citizens?

Episode Guests

• Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore, and Chairman of the National Heritage Board
• Dr Angelia Poon, Associate Professor, National Institute of Education
• Dr Victor Lim Fei, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Education
• Ng Kah Gay, Publisher, Ethos Books

Recommended Reads

Links

• 7 ways the printing press changed the world
• What my students taught me about reading: old books hold new insights for the digital generation
• Reading literary fiction improves theory of the mind
• EU Common Framework for Intercultural Digital Literacies
• Mark Pegrum Overview of Digital Literacies

 

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