[NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:3799] Re: Reading print vs. reading online

From: Ira Yankwitt (iray@lacnyc.org)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 13:25:30 EDT


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Great.  Thanks, Marian.

At 12:38 PM 10/7/05 -0400, Marian Thacher wrote:
>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=/newliteracie
s/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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