Your inability to focus isn’t a failing. It’s a design problem, and the answer isn’t getting rid of our screen time
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
Academia: What Was "Digital Literacy"?
Short Shelf Lives Make For Bad Curricular Planning
The End of Reading Never Began
What “The End of Reading Is Here” gets wrong about literacy, intellectual authority, and American “decline”
“The End of Reading Is Here” - The Ringer
There’s no doubt that reading is in decline. But what is that decline doing to the way we think? Derek talks with The Atlantic’s Rose Horowitch about why Americans are reading fewer books than ever and struggling more with complex texts and what that means for education, work, politics, and culture.
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.
The End of Reading Is Here
Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.
Why AI is exposing design’s craft crisis
AI didn’t create the craft crisis in design — it exposed the technical literacy gap that’s been eroding strategic influence for over a decade.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
Reading in the Age of Constant Distraction by Mairead Small Staid
February 8, 2019 – Twenty-five years ago, Sven Birkerts published “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.” Have his fears and projections come to pass?
Design Harder by Erik Carter / Interactive Version
Read the full text of Design Harder, a book by Erik Carter, as an interactive website. Published by Book Ideas, Design Harder examines design’s cultural and ethical challenges through seven interconnected essays that reframe the discipline’s future.
The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
Reading is important to me. While I’m not a quick reader nor an especially voracious one, I have found that long-form reading has had a profound influence on me over my life. And because reading is important to me, writing is too: writing not only allows us to convey our ideas, but the very act forces us to test and distill them — at once making our ideas more robust while providing the vehicle by which to share them.
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation
Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame reading as...
