ISBN:
9780415891684
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (199 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Reading at a Crossroads? : Disjunctures and Continuities in Current Conceptions and Practices
DDC:
302.2/2440285
Keywords:
Computers and literacy..
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Books and reading ; Technological innovations..
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Publishers and publishing ; Technological innovations..
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Electronic publishing
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The Internet is transforming the experience of reading and learning-through-reading. Is this transformation effecting a radical change in reading processes as readers synthesize understandings from fragments across multiple texts? Or, conversely, is the Internet merely a new place to use the same reading skills and processes developed through experience with traditional print-based media? Are the changes in reading processes a matter of degree, or are they fundamentally new? And if so, how must reading theory, research, and instruction adjust? This volume brings together distinguished experts
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; PART ONE Setting the Stage: The Big Picture; 1 A Brief History of Information Sources in the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries (A Simulation); 2 Literacy and the Technologies of Knowing; 3 The Resistance to 21st-Century Reading; 4 Three Paradigms in Reading (Really Literacy) Research and Digital Media; 5 All Bets Are Off: How Certain Kinds of Reading to Learn on the Web Are Totally Different from What We Learned from Research on Traditional Text Comprehension and Learning from Text
Description / Table of Contents:
PART TWO The Nature of Reading (and Writing) Online6 Purposeful, Critical, and Flexible: Vital Dimensions of Online Reading and Learning; 7 From Computers and the Web to Mobile Devices and e-Texts: The Transition to Digital Reading Continues; 8 Reading at a Million Crossroads: Massively Pluralized Practices and Conceptions of Reading; 9 Reading and the Web: Broadening the Need for Complex Comprehension; 10 Building Coherence in Web-Based and Other Non-Traditional Reading Environments: Cognitive Opportunities and Challenges
Description / Table of Contents:
11 Disequilibrium.edu: Negotiating New Relationships Between Online Reading and WritingPART THREE Instruction: Reading Education in the Digital Age; 12 "Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent": Shakespeare, Kuhn, and Instability in the Field of Reading Education; 13 Past, Present, and Future Conditions and Practices of Reading; 14 Neglected Areas of Instruction: Bad for Print, Worsefor the Internet; 15 We're Closing the Digital Divide: Now Let's Work on Closing the Teleological Divide; 16 The Functionality of Literacy in a Digital World; Index
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