Students spend more time reading online than they do offline.

Libraries are more popular with younger people who spend more time reading online

The use of the Internet in schools extends the boundaries of literacy.

Our students’ futures depend on their ability to use a wide array of Internet technologies.
Integrating the Internet transforms instructional practices.

(Pew Internet & American Life 2001; 2005; 2007)

The Internet is this generation’s defining technology for literacy and learning

New literacies are central to civic, economic, and personal participation in aglobalizedcommunity and, as a result, the education of all students;

New literacies regularly change as their defining technologies change

New Literacies require new skills, strategies, dispositions, and social practices

New literacies of online reading comprehension enhance students’ ability to comprehend online texts (Coiro, 2003) and include:

(1) asking important questions or solving important problems,
(2) locating information,
(3) critically evaluating information,
(4) synthesizing across texts, and
(5) communicating ideas to others

(Leu, Kinzer, Coiro, and Cammack, 2004)