Return-Path: <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id j97GcnG16395; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:38:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:38:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <fc.004c56fb0238b4b83b9aca00e49f4027.238b782@scoe.net> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Marian Thacher" <mthacher@otan.us> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-technology@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:3798] Reading print vs. reading online X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Status: O Content-Length: 1702 Lines: 34 This discussion came up a while ago, and Steve Quann posted some good suggestions for helping students become good Internet readers, and also a link to an interesting article that compares the two kinds of reading. The article (originally published the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy) compares reading strategies for Internet vs. print. It seems that the biggest difference is that the Internet is infinite. There is an incredible amount of information and one link leads to another and before you know it you're lost. So, the primary skills are 1) keeping your goal in mind at all times, and 2) skimming and scanning are crucial because there's no way you can read everything. Other strategies, such as activating prior knowledge and finding the main idea are the same for both. http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/newliteracies/jaal/9-03_column/ Other links to research on this question are collected on the Adult Literacy Education wiki, in the technology area. This is a good example of why the wiki is useful. It was much easier to find these resources in one place that someone collected and synthesized (thank you, David Rosen!), than to plow back through the archives of this list, using my skimming and scanning skills! :) http://wiki.literacytent.org/index.php/ResearchOnTech Marian Thacher OTAN nifl-technology@nifl.gov on Friday, October 07, 2005 at 6:38 AM -0800 wrote: >As a former ABE teacher, this discussion about computer-based assessment >has raised a question for me: does anyone know of any research on the >cognitive or psycho-social differences between reading in a digital >environment vs. reading in a more traditional print format?
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