Research+on+Online+Reading


 * Teaching Two Literacies** The article presents reflections on changes in communication and literacy skills in the 21st-century and the educational shifts which must accompany them. It is asserted that due to the advent of the Internet and digital communications, **students must be taught literacy in both "pre- and post-digital" frameworks**. The mutual need to adapt to innovations in communications technology and culture as well as to endorse traditional language and communication skills is particularly addressed.


 * Rethinking Online Reading Assessment** The article presents a discussion on the **distinctions between traditional** **reading** **practices and Internet literacy,** particularly in regards to effective **assessment**. Five major unique differences seen in Internet **reading** comprehension are outlined and discussed in relation to their inclusion in education. Subjects addressed include the need for information filtering skills due to new presentation formats, consideration of the impact of attitudes towards **reading** **online**, and the inherently collaborative nature of **online** research. Additional mention is given to the need for formulating deliberate **reading** strategies and the ways in which digital technology is impacting traditional comprehension.


 * The Importance of Deep Reading **The article discusses the **importance** of "**deep** **reading**," which is defined as the array of processes that propel comprehension, including inferential and deductive reasoning, analogical skills, critical analysis, reflection, and insight. The author examines the concept of **deep** **reading** in the digital age, when users are forced to process a massive amount of data and constantly multitask in order to succeed at their jobs. Ways to ensure that young learners develop the skills necessary to read thoughtfully are addressed.


 * Are Ebooks Any Good?** The article considers the educational aspects of electronic books (ebooks) and what impact they may have on helping children to learn to read. **Reading** specialist Julie Hume got a grant to purchase a subscription to the Tumblebooks **reading** program in order to help struggling readers. Technological innovations such as electronic book readers, particularly NookColor and the iPad, make it easy for children to read **ebooks**. The chance that elementary school libraries will adopt such technology and allow children to check out **ebooks** is considered.

Teachers would be wise to test out this kind of reading in their own lives first and ask how it might enhance the comprehension and learning of their students.
 * How is Reading Changing with the Advent of ebooks?**Thanks to digital text and readers, the electronic book is finally coming of age. After many false starts, reading a book on a laptop, a Kindle, an iPad type device, or a smart phone offers some great advantages.

**The Reading Brain in the Digital Age** Is there cause for concern? 5/13

**[|How Online Reading Has Evolved in 2011]** The habits and products for reading on the Web have continued to evolve over 2011. This year, for example, Google+ arrived on the scene and changed the way many people [|find and discuss topical articles]. We also saw continued innovation in mobile and tablet reading apps.

Highlights of Research
"For certain tasks eBooks offer dramatic advantages over printed books. As suggested by Alan Reid in his //FNO// article, "[|Knowtation: Reading and Thinking Between the Lines and Around the Edges]," eBooks support reading behaviors that are akin to but superior to the marginalia possible with printed books:

> The art of //knowtation// is not simply marking a book with a highlighter. Effective //knowtation// involves two steps: (1) highlighting (or underlining) important and relevant material, and (2) marginalia, or producing germane notes in the margin of the text.

Reid predicts that eBooks will enhance the reading comprehension of students by facilitaing the knowtation mentioned above and taking it well beyond what is possible with paper books." //How is Reading Changing with the Advent of ebooks?//

Tasks for readers. ..
 * 1) Insert at least one question as a note on each two pages you read. During your reading, make sure you alternate across the types listed below:

> a. A question about character

> b. A question about theme

> c. A question about plot

> d. A question about a literary device

> e. A question requiring forecasting/predicting

> f. A question about a central idea or concept > 2) Insert 2-3 interpretive notes in the most important paragraphs on each pair of pages 3) Highlight every word you look up 4) Each time you search the Web for something to enrich your understanding, insert a note and type in what you found 5) Highlight the most important 2-3 sentences on each pair of pages 6) Highlight in different color anything you find confusing 7) Since this ebook has few pictures, find a picture of each place that is mentioned and paste a copy of the picture or its URL in a note

8) Do the same as above in #7 for the paintings or photos mentioned || As one reads electronically, anything unfamiliar can become familiar as long as the reader is online at the time. In reading about Americans in Paris in the 1830s, David McCullough's //The Greater Journey//, I found myself looking up the important figures he was describing in his book. I had read James Fenimore Cooper's //Deerslayer// as a boy but had no visual memory of his face. iBooks allows the reader to highlight the name of a person or place and do a search within the book, out on the Web or at Wikipedia. Forty years ago, the reader would have to get up and find their personal copy of the //Deerslayer// (if they had one) or drive to the local library to see a picture of Cooper on the dust jacket. Or maybe, if they were fortunate, they owned an encyclopedia that would have an article about Cooper. But the physical work required to find that article was much greater than what is required with iBooks or the Kindle software. I found the habit growing as I moved through the book. What began as an occasional diversion prompted by curiosity became a habit of mind and a concerted reading strategy. I came to appreciate how much richer the reading experience had become by supplementing McCullough's wonderful text with dozens of visual images and additional background reading.
 * Enrichment Through Purposeful Wandering**

//How is Reading Changing with the Advent of ebooks?//

"A typical Internet-based reading assignment requires students to generate appropriate search requests, sift through disparate sources to locate their own texts, synthesize the most reliable and relevant information within those texts, and respond with online communication tools such as an e-mail message or blog post. Sifting through a vast field of information to find the best sources becomes integral to the reading task." //Rethinking Online Reading Assessment//

"...online reading presents an extreme of sorts with its uncensored, unedited maelstrom of anything and everything that is always available and capable of diverting one's attention. " "Some research indicates that elementary-aged students are less likely to recall information from a source when it is filled with manypictures and animations in addition to the text."

"The development of tools-such as online reading tutors and programs that embed strategy prompts, models, think-alouds, and feedback into the text or browser--may enhance the kind of strategic thinking that is vital for online reading comprehension." //The Importance of Deep Reading//