This short article was jam packed with relevant and necessary information for teachers in our technological age. I'll admit up front, that I printed it out. I have difficulty reading texts on screen. I think part of that comes from being from an era of microfishe, microfilm and newspaper research. Also, I like to annotate as I read.
I love the poignancy of progression Coiro presents from the main page to having students know the basics of a web site through how to synthesize online sources. Synthesizing information is a skill that is even a challenge to do with hard copy. I'm interested to see how it actually goes in my classes.
I agree that there is a new paradigm needed to get students (especially those who are struggling readers), to employ strategies that will empower their already self-inflicted academic deficiencies. Even for me the article reminded me to better scrutinize sites as I run across them.
I really like the four strategy steps, and even more, the sample lessons and accompanying charts. I have decided to use all of the strategies offered, one of which will be for the final lesson for this class.
This article was well work the wake-up call.
Thank you for having us read it.
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