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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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
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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)....
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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)....