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Online Reading Comprehension

Online Research & Media Skills Model

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Online Reading Comprehension:

Students searching & sifting relevant information from print & digital texts while assessing credibility

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Changing Nature of Literacy

  • The Internet is this generation’s defining technology for literacy and learning;
  • New literacies are central to civic, economic, & personal participation in a globalized community and, as a result, the education of all students;
  • New literacies regularly change as their defining technologies change;
  • New Literacies require new skills, strategies, dispositions, and social practices.

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The Internet as a Text

  • Students spend more time reading online than they do offline
  • The use of the Internet in schools extends the boundaries of literacy.
  • Our students' futures depend on their ability to use a wide array of Internet technologies.
  • Integrating the Internet transforms instructional practices.

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Online Reading Comprehension

  • Questioning
  • Locating
  • Evaluating
  • Synthesizing
  • Communicating

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Questioning

  • Students know how to restate a question in their own words.
  • Students know how to formulate keywords from a question.
  • Students know how when they have all the information needed to answer the question.

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Locating

  • Students know how to use different search engines.
  • Students know how to use internal search engines.
  • Students know how to find information on a webpage.
  • Students know how to ignore information they don't need to think about.

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Evaluate

  • Students know how when information meets her needs.
  • Students know how to identify an author or publisher of online information.
  • Students can judge an author's authority on a subject.
  • Students can see how an author supports her argument.

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Synthesize

  • Students know how to select and construct the information she needs.
  • Students know which information to ignore while reading.
  • Students know how images & numbers help construct meaning.
  • Students know when

they have the answer.

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Communicate

  • Students know how to select the most appropriate communication tool for their purpose.
  • Students know what information to submit, and what to leave out.
  • Students share all information needed to completely answer the question.

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Scaffolding Online Readers

Tool

Pedagogical Affordances

Google Forms

A free survey and assessment tool that can be used to create formative assessments to capture and log reading times.

Blogger or Edublogs

Have students blog, and reflect during the reading process as a way to check for comprehension.

Diigo

A free bookmarking and annotation tool that can be used to select, share, and annotate websites for students.

Google Custom Search Engine

A free tool that can be used to create a hand-picked, teacher-curated search engine that looks and acts like Google.

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Why is This Important?

Students that need it the most may be receiving it the least

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Little known about differences between online & offline reading

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Authentic to what kids do, & on the PARCC/Smarter Balanced

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Opportunities to

Connect & Collaborate

Community

Purpose

Educate and promote aspects of appropriate Digital Citizenship as well as immersing teens in learning & collaborating.

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A safe, secure, online social network optimized for K-12 learning. Includes over half a million classrooms in 200 countries.

A safe & structured environment in which students can communicate and interact in service-learning projects.

A global community of students and educators focused on 21st Century Learning, STEM, civic responsibility, and collaboration skills.

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Online Reading Comprehension

Online Research & Media Skills Model