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# Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age 1st Edition

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    Read this book if you were born before 1970
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2016*

I consider myself very social media savvy (email, texting, Facebook, etc.) for my age; it's necessary to stay up with the grand kids. But this book opened my eyes to the rapid cultural revolution society is undergoing in how communication takes place among humans.  I viewed emails and texting simply as tools (like meetings and phone calls) to get something done (schedule something or confirm a event). I graduated from college in 1969 believing that important communications needed to be face-to-face----no more.  The young generations are losing their ability to communicate directly as electronic devices become ever more capable.  Confront a young professional to have a face-to-face conversation and expect to see a perplexed look on their face.  I now better understand some of the social feelings behind the texts exchanged with younger professionals and the grand kids.The book dragged a little with an over abundance of examples where texting is taking over human communications.  Then I read the chapter about texting and modern romance --- wow.  The World had definitely changed when serious relationships begin and end via email and texting.  I asked the interns in my office about this and their comment was: "Yes, so what's new?"What we are seeing today is akin to what happened to humanity after the invention of the printing press in the 1400's.  Resisting change is no longer an option; we must adapt or fail.  This book puts this modern communication phenomena in perspective to early baby boomers like me.

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    Restoring lost or underdeveloped skills
  

*by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2019*

This book provides research to support problems I’ve noticed in my middle school and high school classrooms over the past 10 years: 1) my students don’t seem very keen on building friendships with each other, 2) my students have a very hard time reading and expressing depth of thought (as compared to my students 10 or more years ago).  Could this book be alarmist?  I don’t think so; deficits in conversation are obvious whether you turn to the classroom, the workplace, or the home.  Could this book be discouraging?  Yes, but I think for me it provided some ideas of what to focus on in rebuilding lost skills (or skills younger folk never developed).  1) Cultivate unitasking!!!  Unitasking allows your brain to do its best work!  2) Set clear expectations about what makes respectful classroom behavior and conversation.  3). Teach the importance of eye contact.  Are there more useful suggestions?  Absolutely, but as a teacher looking to guide students into more meaningful conversations, this is where I’ll begin.

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    Should be a required reading to be able to graduate from high school.
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2017*

I bought this book after enduring the last few years by witnessing our culture of digital zombies. I recently had a friend who has had the audacity to "apologize" to me via text message not once, but three times over the last couple of months. The fact that she finds it "normal" to do this sent me to an even deeper place of discouragement and despair about how insensitive our culture is. This book validated so many feelings I've been harboring about people being unable to carry on a conversation or have quality time with REAL people because they are brainwashed, controlled and entranced by the little (or big, I should say) rectangles they carry in their pocket. If you are so weary of people "phubbing" you, or preferring the virtual world in their devices over a real person (like you!), this is the book for you. I'm tempted to buy one for everyone I know. Maybe they will get the hint! I will be going back to a "dumb phone" soon. I am so excited and can't wait to further advocate spending time in the real world.  Talk to people, folks! Don't text them, don't post garbage on "Fake-book" or "Insta-crap", just TALK!!! Well written book and I think this should be a required reading before anyone is allowed to graduate from high school or college. It would be enlightening read for these Millennial, entitled brats who can't put their phone down long enough to engage in real relationships or enhance their life.

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