Overview

Students are reading on screens more than ever—how can we teach them to be better digital readers? Smartphones, laptops, tablets: college students are reading on-screen all the time, and digital devices shape students’ understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education, however, teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities, unless they’re lamenting students’ attention spans or the distractions available to students when they’re learning online. Skim, Dive, Surface offers a corrective to these conversations—an invitation to focus not on losses to student learning but on the spectrum of affordances available within digital learning environments. It is designed to help college instructors across the curriculum teach digital reading in their classes, whether they teach face-to-face, fully online, or somewhere in between. Placing research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, learning science, and composition in dialogue with insight from the scholarship of teaching and learning, Jenae Cohn shows how teachers can better frame, scaffold, and implement effective digital reading assignments. She positions digital reading as part of a cluster of literacies that students should develop in order to communicate effectively in a digital environment.

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Author:   Jenae Cohn
Publisher:   West Virginia University Press
Imprint:   West Virginia University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781952271045

ISBN 10:   1952271045
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Teach Digital Reading? Part 1. Skim Understanding Historical, Affective, and Neurological Perspectives on Reading Technologies 1. The Chained Book: A Historical Overview of Reading Technology in Higher Education 2. The Held Book: How Our Feelings for Books Impact How We Teach Reading 3. The Brain on Books: What the Neuroscience of Reading Can Tell Us about Reading on Screens Part 2. Dive Exploring the Digital Reading Framework to Promote Deep Reading Practices An Introduction to the Digital Reading Framework: Curation, Connection, Creativity, Contextualization, Contemplation 4. Curation 5. Connection 6. Creativity 7. Contextualization 8. Contemplation Part 3. Surface Critically Approaching the Adoption and Use of Digital Reading Technologies 9. The Ethical Implications of Digital Reading: Grappling with Digital Archiving, Readerly Privacy, and Evidence of Our Reading Conclusion: Principles, Practices, and Futures for Digital Reading Appendix: Tools for Digital Reading References Index

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An important, accessible contribution to conversations about digital reading. -Ellen Carillo, coauthor of Reading Critically, Writing Well

An important, accessible contribution to conversations about digital reading. Ellen Carillo, coauthor of Reading Critically, Writing Well

Author Information

Jenae Cohn writes and speaks about teaching and learning in digital spaces. She works as the Director of Academic Technology at California State University, Sacramento. Find more at www.jenaecohn.net.

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