Enhanced eBooks: Great for Audience Engagement, Bad for Communicating Information?
A recent study by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center (the research arm of Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street) found that enhanced eBooks can be detrimental to children’s literacy as opposed to basic eBooks. The PDF report found that both parents and children are likely to engage in enhanced eBook features, defined as multimedia and interactive features and exemplified by apps like Scholastic Storia and subscription sites like Ruckus Reader. However, children retained fewer narrative…
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