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New Literacies for Online Text

Presented by Kelly Galbraith and Terri Lewis, IU 13

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What do you do to make sense of text?

Read “Toward an Understanding of the New Literacies of Online Comprehension.” Do whatever you need to do to make sense of this text.

Share what you did to make sense of this text with your neighbor. What was common?

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What do good readers do? Set purpose Activate background

knowledge Make predictions and

inferences Monitor

comprehension Ask questions

Visualize Adjust reading rate Re-read Re-phrase/

summarize Evaluate

Penn Literacy Network, 2012

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Essential Questions How does reading online text differ

from reading offline text? How can teachers increase their

students’ comprehension of online text?

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Online vs. Offline Reading

Record responses in Padlet. http://tinyurl.com/iu13newliteracies For each entry, type “online” or “offline” instead

of your name.

Student Purposes for ReadingOnline Offline

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New Literacies Identifying Important Questions Locating Information Critically Evaluating Information Synthesizing Information Communicating Information

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Locating Information The work of the New Literacies Project out of the

University of Connecticut has pinpointed 4 types of reading skills for locating information online:1) Knowing how to use a search engine to locate

information2) Reading search engine results3) Reading a web page to locate information that

might be present there4) Making an inference about where information is

located by selecting a link at one site to find information at anther site

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Search Activity Try doing a google search for “differences

between online and offline text” Read your search results, and make a list of the

criteria you are using to determine if the site is relevant or not

Compare your list with a partner. What did you find?

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Critically Evaluating Information Understanding: Does it make sense to me? Relevancy: Does it meet my needs? Accuracy: Can I verify it with another reliable

source? Reliability: Can I trust it? Bias: How does the author shape it?

~Coiro (2007)

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Synthesizing Information

Active Reading

Intertextuality

Synthesizing Online

Text

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Pros of Reading Online Text Reading online can be a powerful experience

for students. Audio and video elements can help clarify

concepts. Picture quality can be striking. The currency of information on the internet is

not easily achieved through books. Interactivity can spawn increased

engagement. Oxley, 2013

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“Whether they realize it or not, many people approach computers and tablets with a state of mind less conducive to learning than the one they bring to paper.” (Jabr, 2013)

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Online text findingsThe Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper vs. Screens (Jabr, 2013)

Inconsistent results May prevent people from navigating long

texts in an intuitive and satisfying way May subtly inhibit reading comprehension May drain more of our mental resources May make it harder to remember what we

read

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If reading online texts simultaneously presents exciting opportunities an critical

challenges, how do educators teach students to effectively read online?

Oxley, 2013

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What do good readers do? Set purpose Activate background

knowledge Make predictions and

inferences Monitor

comprehension Ask questions

Visualize Adjust reading rate Re-read Re-phrase/

summarize Evaluate

Penn Literacy Network, 2012

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Short passage

Complex textLimited frontloading

Repeated readings

Text-dependent questions

Close Reading

Annotation

Frey and Fisher, 2013

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Tools to promote active reading Evidence Interpretation Chart Scrible (or other online annotation tool)

Go to www.scrible.com Click on “Sign up (free)” Follow directions to create an account

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First Read- Read section 1 of the article to determine the main idea. What is the author telling the reader about digital reading?

Scrible

Type the main idea on a post-it note

Evidence Interpretation

Write the main idea on the top of the paper

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Second Read- Re-read section 1 of the article to identify important and/or confusing information.

Scrible Highlight anything

interesting or important in green and confusing in yellow.

Use the post-it note tool to explain why you highlighted what you did.

Evidence Interpretation

Write anything interesting, important, or confusing on the “evidence” side of your chart.

Explain your thinking on the “interpretation” side of your chart.

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Third Read- Does the research in this article corroborate the research in Jabr’s Scientific American article?

Scrible Answer the

question on a post-it note.

Highlight evidence to support your thinking in pink.

Evidence Interpretation

Answer the question on the “interpretation” side of your chart.

Write your evidence on the “evidence” side of your chart.

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Contact Us!Kelly GalbraithIU 13 Literacy [email protected](717) 606-1667

Terri LewisIU 13 Literacy [email protected](717) 606-1805