Studies have not fully proven that technology affects teens from reading. Researchers around America talk about how technology is affecting children and adolescents from reading. Articles are saying that teen reading has decreased because of Social Media and Apps, but what if teens are finding a different source for reading? Teens could be increasing their reading in many different ways. Technology does not have a major effect on teen reading because there are Ebooks, Apps, and Social Media. One reason that technology does not have a major negative effect on teen reading is because of E-books. Children and adolescents buy books one their phones because technology is advancing. Teens especially would use technology for other things in their
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The creators of the app Hooked started to see a change in technology and saw how children were always on their phones. They didn’t children and adolescents to miss out on a good stories. They started the app Hooked to grab teens attention by making short stories from text messages. This app became so popular that, “ Gupta said about 20 million people have installed the app.” (Gupta 1). Prerna Gupta, the creator of the app Hooked, knows that to help not make teen reading decrease is to grab the teens attention with something that is digital form for their digital devices. Prerna Gupta stated in the article Hooked Aims to Get Kids Reading, “ So we started to think of about how we can make reading more engaging in a world where are competing for attention on social …show more content…
From the article Can Social Network Boost Literacy Skills, they found a survey from National Literacy saying that, “ 67% percent of surf websites weekly, 55% percent read emails and 46% read blogs.” (The Alberta Teachers’ Association 1). Because of this research, adolescent are doing things that entertain them while they are increasing their literacy rate. Social Media is used by many adolescent and along with social media they are reading text messages and emails. They are spending a lot of time on social media which can be the reason why reading hasn't decrease so much. The Alberta Teachers states in the article Can Social Network Boost Literary Skills, “Perhaps text messaging, social networking sites and blogs are a new form of literature that will soon be studied in schools in the way that books, plays and poetry are now. In Scotland, new curriculum literacy guides specify that children should be familiarized with new media and taught modern communication methods so that they will be able to function in today’s workplace.”( The Alberta Teachers’ Association
The creators of the app Hooked started to see a change in technology and saw how children were always on their phones. They didn’t children and adolescents to miss out on a good stories. They started the app Hooked to grab teens attention by making short stories from text messages. This app became so popular that, “ Gupta said about 20 million people have installed the app.” (Gupta 1). Prerna Gupta, the creator of the app Hooked, knows that to help not make teen reading decrease is to grab the teens attention with something that is digital form for their digital devices. Prerna Gupta stated in the article Hooked Aims to Get Kids Reading, “ So we started to think of about how we can make reading more engaging in a world where are competing for attention on social …show more content…
From the article Can Social Network Boost Literacy Skills, they found a survey from National Literacy saying that, “ 67% percent of surf websites weekly, 55% percent read emails and 46% read blogs.” (The Alberta Teachers’ Association 1). Because of this research, adolescent are doing things that entertain them while they are increasing their literacy rate. Social Media is used by many adolescent and along with social media they are reading text messages and emails. They are spending a lot of time on social media which can be the reason why reading hasn't decrease so much. The Alberta Teachers states in the article Can Social Network Boost Literary Skills, “Perhaps text messaging, social networking sites and blogs are a new form of literature that will soon be studied in schools in the way that books, plays and poetry are now. In Scotland, new curriculum literacy guides specify that children should be familiarized with new media and taught modern communication methods so that they will be able to function in today’s workplace.”( The Alberta Teachers’ Association