Education and Technology

The aim of this paper is to explore what we know about the difficulties of comprehension of digital texts in comparison with traditional texts with a particular focus on new readers. The question we want to investigate is whether the reading of an electronic text is more (or less) difficult than that of a paper text. In the first part of the paper, the object of the study is presented; in the second part research studies in the field are examined through an analysis of the evidence-based literature; in the third and final part, we try to draw some conclusions from data. Do we read more or read less in the time of digital media? Does reading on the screen change the way we understand meanings? And does the way we write change? These are some of the questions that parents and teachers ask themselves to understand what are the correct spaces and times to leave for devices at home, at school, in free time.