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Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees
Author(s) -
Leu Donald J.,
Forzani Elena,
Timbrell Nicole,
Maykel Cheryl
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the reading teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.642
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1936-2714
pISSN - 0034-0561
DOI - 10.1002/trtr.1406
Subject(s) - reading (process) , psychology , the internet , literacy , order (exchange) , primary education , pedagogy , mathematics education , world wide web , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , finance , economics
While countless new technologies are appearing in our lives and in school classrooms, we argue that we need to keep in mind our goals in reading before we use any of them. We suggest that a primary goal is to develop the ability to read in order to learn with online information. Technologies that support this goal, especially the Internet, and instructional practices that support the development of online reading should be our primary consideration for reading and literacy education, beginning in the primary grades.