1. Teach Them to Readthe Internet Heather Wiederstein Senior Curriculum Specialist English/Language Arts Prentice Hall (Pearson)

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5. Like it or not, we must begin to prepare them for their connected futures online. ~Richardson

6. The way todays students will do science, politics, journalism and businessa decade from now will be shaped by the skills they acquire incommunity and the role of citizen media in democracy. ~Howard Rheingold in Richardson

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8. The Effective Online Reader

• Text of the Play

• Modern Texts

• Comprehension Support

• Literary Criticism

• Historical Context

• Videos

• Discussion Groups

9. The Distracted Online Reader

10. Strategic Readers of Internet Text

• Activate Prior Knowledge

• Monitor Comprehension

• Repair Comprehension

• Determine Important Ideas

• Synthesize

• Draw Inferences

• Ask Questions

11. The participatory nature of the Web may help foster young minds skilled in communicating, collaborating, and creating in new ways. ~Wolf and Barzillai

12. What will it take for the next generation to read thoughtfullyboth in print and online? ~Wolf and Barzillai

13. If we fail to get our collective educator brains around these shiftsthen we are not doing everything we can to prepare them for their learning futures. ~Richardson

14. Taking advantage of the wealth of information that is always just a click away demands the use of executive, organizational, critical, and self-monitoring skills to navigate and make sense of the information. ~Wolf and Barzillai

15. Printed Text

16. Learning is no longer primarily fixed in time and space; it can happen anytime and anywhere that we are connected ~Richardson

17. Digital Information

18. Online reading has the potential to mold a mind adept at effectively finding, analyzing and critically evaluating and responding to information across several modalities. ~ Wolf and Barzillai

19. The expert reading brain rarely emerges without guidance and instruction. ~Wolf and Barzillai

20. Human beings were never born to readreading is a new cognitive function... ~Wolf and Barzillai

21. The requirements of individual writing systems shape reading circuits in the brain. ~Wolf and Barzillai

22. From Comprehension to Evaluation!

23. What is Reciprocal Teaching?

• Summarizing

• Questioning

• Clarifying

• Predicting

• • • • Palinscar 1986

24. Internet Reciprocal Teaching

• Basic computer and Internet skills

• Effective online reading skills in small groups or whole class

• Independent inquiry with the exchange of effective online reading strategies

25. The Differences:

26. Students Must Answer

• Which search engine do I use?

• How do I read search engine results?

• How do I critically evaluate the reliability of a site?

27. Reading Search Engine Results

28. Is Google Making Us Stupid? ~Nick Carr

29. Web Directory vs. Search Engine

• Directories

• Yahoo!

• Google Directory

• Open Directory Project/DMOZ

• Google.com

• Ask.com

• MSN search

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• Paid advertising & organic search results

• Page Rank =

• • Location and frequency of keywords

• • Title tags are more important

• • User clickthrough

• • Programmer tagging (SEO)

• • Only Google excludes pay-for-rank

31. Boolean?

32. Students are unable to evaluate whether links will be useful or simply distracting.

33. Which link would you select to hear John Phillip Santos reading from his works? to hear an interview with John Phillip Santos? to read an essay by John Phillip Santos?

34. Predicting and Clarifying While Clicking

35. Based on this page what do the links in the header indicate is the purpose of the site? on which occasions would you use this site? what do the graphical elements add by way of information?

36. Based on this page which elements are most helpful in determining the purpose of the site? does the page, in fact, do what you predicted?

37. Critically Evaluating Web Sites

38. Is this site. very reliable? sort of reliable? not at all reliable? Why?

39. We also need to make sure that students can read as highly trained editors read, looking for truth in both the text and the author. ~Richardson

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• www.thedogisland.com

• http://www.deadlysins.com/guineaworm/index.htm

• http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

42. Now Its Your Turn!

43. For which assignment can I try Reading Search Engine Results?

44. For which assignment can I try Predicting and Clarifying the Purpose of a Web Site?

45. For which assignment can I try Reading a Web Site Critically?

46. Teach Them to Readthe Internet

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