EP#4: Maryanne Wolf - The Power of Reading | Changing Our Own Brains | Screens vs. Books

Maryanne Wolf is an author, scholar, teacher, and advocate for children and literacy around the world. She is the Director of the  newly created Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

How did reading change our own brains? What's the state of literacy of North America today? Should Twitter ever be used in politics? Is technology overpowering our ability to read? In this episode, hear Maryanne Wolf discuss the impact of her work concerning reading, the human brain, and the rise of technology. 

Maryanne Wolf's books:

• Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (2007, HarperCollins)
• Dyslexia, Fluency, and the Brain (Edited; York, 2001) 
• Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (2016, Oxford University Press)
• Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World (August, 2018, HarperCollins)

Thank you to RBC for sponsoring this episode!

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