How much time a day do you spend reading print? What do you read? If you rarely read printed materials, why do you prefer reading from screens? 2. The selection notes that ″perhaps the greatest drawback of screen reading is our inability to become truly immersed, free of interruptions and distractions.″ Can you recall a time when you became ″truly immersed″ when reading a book or a story? What was that experience like? Do you think that having this experience is important, or are there screen-based experiences that you think are equally as (or even more) important? Knowing that scientists have discovered that too much screen reading may erode our ability to focus and make us all weaker readers and thinkers, do you think you will make an effort to read more books and printed materials? Or do you think you will continue to read primarily from screens? Explain your reasoning. It is estimated that most of us stare at some kind of screen for ten hours every day. If you had to go for a full day without looking at any kind of screen, how do you think you′d feel? What might you do with those ten hours instead? Would you be willing to try being screen-free for a full day? Why or why not?
