Understanding What Students Know: Evaluating Their Online Research and Reading Comprehension Skills

Jill Castek; Julie Coiro

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 58, No. 7 (April 2015) pp. 546–549

This piece is framed by questions we are often asked when we talk about online reading assessments and instruction with teachers. We begin with some of the lessons we have learned in our own experiences with designing measures of online reading...

How do 4 th and 5 th grade students acquire the new literacies of online reading comprehension? Exploring the contexts that facilitate learning

Jill M. Castek

How do 4<super>th</super> and 5<super>th</super> grade students acquire the new literacies of online reading@comprehension? Exploring the contexts that facilitate@learning (2008) pp. 1–288

This study had three main purposes. First, it sought to examine the contexts under which students in a 4 th and 5 th grade combination classroom acquired the new literacies of online reading comprehension. Second, it...

Using Apps to Support Disciplinary Literacy and Science Learning

Jill Castek; Richard Beach

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 56, No. 7 (April 2013) pp. 554–564

Apps, specialized programs used on mobile computers, can be used in innovative ways to enhance science and literacy learning. With the skilled guidance of their teachers, students can exploit app affordances for learning and acquire disciplinary...

Personal Inquiry and Online Research: Connecting Learners in Ways That Matter

Julie Coiro; Jill Castek; David J. Quinn

Reading Teacher Vol. 69, No. 5 (2016) pp. 483–492

This piece introduces a framework for how to envision Personal Digital Inquiry (PDI) in K-8 classrooms. To conceptualize what teaching and learning might look like in these classrooms, important practices are situated along a two-dimensional...

Collaborative Literacy: Blogs and Internet Projects

Erica Boling; Jill Castek; Lisa Zawilinski; Karen Barton; Theresa Nierlich

Reading Teacher Vol. 61, No. 6 (March 2008) pp. 504–506

Popular technologies offer new and exciting ways to capitalize on the strengths of authentic writing, the power of the writing process, and the engagement of collaborative writing. Blogs are one of those technologies. Blogs are websites that allow...

Comparing the Quality of Third, Fourth, and Fifth Graders' Social Interactions and Cognitive Strategy Use during Structured Online Inquiry

Julie Coiro; Diane Carver Sekeres; Jill Castek; Lizabeth Guzniczak

Journal of Education Vol. 194, No. 2 (2014) pp. 1–15

This study examined the social and cognitive interaction patterns of third, fourth, and fifth graders as they collaboratively read on the Internet and responded to an inquiry prompt. Data analysis revealed patterns of cognitive strategy use that...

Examining Peer Collaboration in Online Inquiry

Jill Castek; Julie Coiro; Lizbeth Guzniczak; Carlton Bradshaw

Educational Forum Vol. 76, No. 4 (2012) pp. 479–496

This study examines peer collaboration among four pairs of seventh graders who read online to determine what caused the downfall of the Mayan civilization. More and less productive collaborative interactions are presented through snippets of...

Using Peer Collaboration to Support Online Reading, Writing, and Communication: An Empowerment Model for Struggling Readers

Laurie A. Henry; Jill Castek; W Ian O'Byrne; Lisa Zawilinski

Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties Vol. 28, No. 3 (2012) pp. 279–306

This comparative case study investigated the implementation of an empowerment model for struggling readers that utilized the Internet as a context for reading, writing, and communicating in 3 different classroom contexts. Through student-centered...

Fostering Preservice and In-service ELA Teachers’ Use of Digital Practices for Addressing Climate Change

Richard Beach; George Boggs; Jill Castek; James Damico; Alexandra Panos; Renee Spellman; Nance Wilson

Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2020) pp. 4–36

This report presents research on PSTs and in-service teachers acquiring digital practices for addressing climate change related to knowing how to employ digital practices for studying visual representations of climate change and engaging students in ...

Production and Consumption: A Closer Look at Adult Digital Literacy Acquisition

Gloria E. Jacobs; Jill Castek; Andrew Pizzolato; Stephen Reder; Kimberly Pendell

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Vol. 57, No. 8 (May 2014) pp. 624–627

In this column, the authors discuss emerging research in the field of adult digital literacy acquisition. The authors argue that the field of adult digital literacy acquisition has been under-researched, especially in relation to multiliteracies and ...

Topics: Literacy, Adults, Research Methods

Expanding Literacy Teachers’ Ways of Knowing through Visual Literacy and Web 2.0 Collaboration

Dana Grisham; Thomas DeVere Wolsey; Melissa Provost; Bridget Dalton; Jill Castek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3228–3231

Students in today's schools and universities have grown up with technology, living in a networked world where texts are multimodal, interactive, and socially distributed (Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008; Kress, 2003; New London Group, 1996)....

Expanding Literacy Teachers’ Ways of Knowing through Visual Literacy and Web 2.0 Collaboration

Dana Grisham; Thomas DeVere Wolsey; Melissa Provost; Bridget Dalton; Jill Castek

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2011 (Mar 07, 2011) pp. 3224–3227

Students in today's schools and universities have grown up with technology, living in a networked world where texts are multimodal, interactive, and socially distributed (Coiro, Knobel, Lankshear, & Leu, 2008; Kress, 2003; New London Group, 1996)....