#literacy
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Writing
2026
- Jan 20, 2026 AI Literacy, AI Illiteracy, and the Trouble With Naming the Gap
Why the phrase "AI illiteracy" sounds useful at first, but may distort how we think about literacy, access, and responsibility.
2024
- Apr 20, 2024 Navigating New Realms - Generative AI and Literacy Education
How generative AI is reshaping literacy education and classroom practice.
2023
- Sep 30, 2023 Unpacking Economic Inequality, Market-Driven Education, and Privatization: Implications for Ethical Media Consumption
How media literacy connects to economic inequality and market-driven education.
- Sep 9, 2023 AI and the Art of Writing: Balancing Innovation with Tradition in Education
How AI changes the writing process and what schools should do about it.
- Feb 24, 2023 Towards Transformative Socioemotional Learning
How digital literacy, identity, and SEL can support post-truth classrooms.
2022
- Dec 28, 2022 Transdisciplinarity as a Gateway to Critical Literacy
How wicked problems can open critical literacy across disciplines.
2021
- Oct 8, 2021 I’m Teaching Myself TikTok
What it means to teach yourself TikTok as a networked learning project.
- Apr 28, 2021 Digitally Literate English Language Learners
Why digital literacy research needs to include multilingual learners.
- Apr 26, 2021 Healthy Avatars and Sick People
How digital health systems can both improve care and create new risks.
- Mar 17, 2021 What Should We Demand of Tech
What we should expect from technology as users and citizens.
- Feb 6, 2021 Narrative for Tenure & Promotion
Selected materials from my tenure and promotion packet.
2020
- Dec 2, 2020 Shades of Gray
Why life is often more shades of gray than black and white.
- Sep 18, 2020 Joy, Love, & Aesthetic Fulfillment
How joy, love, and aesthetic fulfillment fit into literacy.
2019
- Feb 6, 2019 Help define digital literacy
A call to define what it means to be digitally literate.
- Jan 30, 2019 What is digital literacy?
What digital literacy means and why the web is now a core text.
- Jan 23, 2019 Critical Media Literacy
Why critical media literacy is essential for online life.
2018
- Oct 23, 2018 Why people troll others online
Why people troll online and how those behaviors work.
- Sep 18, 2018 Digitally Native Scholarship
How open scholarship changes when research moves online.
- Jun 27, 2018 What is IndieWeb & why should you care?
A plain-language introduction to the IndieWeb and what it offers.
- May 17, 2018 What is “Critical Pedagogy”?
How critical pedagogy differs from critical literacy and why it matters.
- May 11, 2018 What is “Critical Literacy” in Education?
Why critical literacy shapes my teaching, research, and worldview.
- Mar 28, 2018 Text tradeoffs as we move from print to pixel
How text changes as literacy moves from print to pixel.
- Mar 17, 2018 Rating the relative hotness of digital literacy
A playful look at the heat and urgency of digital literacy.
- Feb 23, 2018 “Tell me about yourself” in a critical autoethnography
How critical autoethnography connects identity, culture, and reflection.
2017
- Aug 10, 2017 Develop an assessment of critical online information literacies
How to assess whether online information is credible and useful.
2016
- Nov 1, 2016 A grant proposal for the ELATED (English Language Arts & Technology in Education) Project
Submitted materials for the Project Elated grant proposal.
- Jun 30, 2016 Three steps to become a digitally agile educator
Three steps to become a more digitally agile educator.
- Jun 22, 2016 BadgeChain Reads – A Next-Generation Smart Contract and Decentralized Application Platform
Welcome to the second round of BadgeChain Reads.
- Jun 9, 2016 BadgeChain Reads – Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Welcome to the first round of BadgeChain Reads.
- Mar 17, 2016 Engineering education, design, STEM, & literacy
What an engineering education interview says about STEM, design, and literacy.
- Feb 22, 2016 Preparing Students to be Literate Digitally in a Digitally Literate Environment of Their Own
How students can become digitally literate in a connected environment.
- Jan 1, 2016 A New Hope: Negotiating the Integration of Transmedia Storytelling & Literacy Instruction
How transmedia storytelling supports literacy instruction across media.
2015
- Nov 19, 2015 Building Critical Media Literacy in the Deictic/Ambiguous Nature of Online Text
How critical media and web literacy reshape what we mean by text.
- Aug 21, 2015 Computational Participation: Coding and Programming as Literacy Activities
How coding and programming can function as literacy practices in classrooms.
- Apr 25, 2015 Guiding Students as They Explore, Build, & Connect Online
How students can explore, build, and connect more skillfully online.
- Apr 24, 2015 Hybrid & Blended Learning: Modifying pedagogy across time, place, path, & pace
How hybrid and blended learning change pedagogy across time and place.
- Apr 21, 2015 The Life and Death of a Literacy & Technology Program
What the IT&DML program was and why it mattered for hybrid learning.
- Mar 30, 2015 Zainab Oni
An overview of digital badges and their uses in teaching and learning.
- Mar 11, 2015 Digital Badges: Recognizing, Assessing, and Motivating Learners In and Out of School Contexts
An overview of digital badges as evidence, assessment, and motivation.
- Mar 10, 2015 Digital Badges Overview
An overview of digital badges in teaching and learning.
- Feb 2, 2015 Digital Literacy Practices for Working With English Learners (ELs)
How digital literacy practices can support English learners.
- Jan 21, 2015 Multicultural Education and Multiliteracies: Exploration & Exposure of Literacy Practices with Preservice Teachers
How hybrid learning and Google+ discussion shaped a multicultural literacy study.
- Jan 19, 2015 Toward the Development of a Web Literacy Map: Exploring, Building, and Connecting Online
Responses to Mozilla's Web Literacy Map from a Literacy Research Association session.
2014
- Dec 5, 2014 Social Scholars: Educators’ Digital Identity Construction in Social & Connected Online Learning Environments
Research materials and findings from a study of how educators construct digital identity and participate in social, connected learning environments.
- Nov 14, 2014 Teaching, Learning, and Sharing Openly Online
What open teaching and learning ask of teachers and students.
- Oct 10, 2014 Community Survey – Help Develop the Web Literacy Map 2.0
A community survey to help revise the web literacy map.
- Oct 9, 2014 Empowering Learners in the Reader/Writer Nature of the Digital Informational Space
How readers can become writers in digital informational spaces.
- Sep 12, 2014 Evolution of a Syllabus on New Literacies Research and Practice
A revised syllabus for a New Literacies course.
- Jun 5, 2014 IT&DML Syllabus for Critical Issues & Research in New Literacies
The syllabus for IT&DML critical issues research in new literacies.
- Apr 25, 2014 Application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge – Donatello of the Web Lit Ninja Turtles
My application for the Web Literacy Ninja Badge.
- Feb 19, 2014 Creating & Delivering a Pecha Kucha Style Research Presentation
How a Pecha Kucha format can sharpen research presentations.
2013
- Dec 17, 2013 Open Access Writing, Publishing, and Sharing
How open access shapes writing, publishing, and sharing.
- Nov 4, 2013 LRA: Research to Practice online video initiative
Launching an LRA research-to-practice online video initiative.
- Sep 25, 2013 Using Online Resources and Google Scholar to Conduct Research in the Classroom
How to use Google Scholar and online tools for classroom research.
- Aug 5, 2013 Day One at the MA New Literacies Institute – ChalkBoardMan Moving From Print to Screen
Notes from day one at the MA New Literacies Institute.
- Jul 18, 2013 Innovative Teaching and Learning with Digital Media Texts, Tools & Technologies
How digital media texts and tools can support innovative teaching.
- Jul 16, 2013 Chrome Extensions to Protect Yourself as You Search and Sift Online Information
How to protect your data while searching and browsing online.
- Jul 13, 2013 My Philosophy, or My “Credo” in Research, Teaching, and Learning
My teaching and research credo, shaped by connected learning and launching IT&DML.
- Jul 9, 2013 Global Youth in the Digital Age
How global youth navigate engagement in a digital age.
- Jun 11, 2013 Privacy, Identity, & Protecting Yourself (and Your Students) Online
How privacy and identity shape safety for you and your students online.
- May 24, 2013 Embedding New Literacies in the Common Core State Standards
How new literacies fit into the Common Core State Standards.
- May 23, 2013 Embedding Technology Instruction in Common Core State Standards – A “MOOC”
How the ORMS class embeds new literacies into the CCSS.
- May 10, 2013 Empowering Students in the Reader/Writer Nature of the Web #teachtheweb
How making, connected learning, and critical literacy support student agency.
- May 1, 2013 What kind of thinking is involved when you Make? #teachtheweb
What kinds of thinking happen when you make content online.
- Apr 6, 2013 Keynote at the Literacy and Learning Conference
A keynote on the Common Core and new literacies.
- Mar 14, 2013 Towards a Framing of Web Literacies
How web literacies can be framed as explore, create, connect, protect.
- Jan 31, 2013 Teaching Online and the Time of Screencasts
Why screencasts work well for online teaching and learning.
2012
- Dec 10, 2012 How I Write: Research, Collaboration, and Communication using online tools
How online tools support research, collaboration, and writing.
- Aug 6, 2012 Teacher Responsibilities & Educational Technologies
A reflection on teacher responsibility when using educational technologies.
- Aug 4, 2012 Responsibility and Educational Technologies
A reflection on teacher responsibility when adopting educational technology.
- Jul 28, 2012 Preparing for the MA NLI 2012
We are quickly approaching the week of festivities for the Massachusetts New Literacies Institute 2012.
- May 3, 2012 Online Research and Media Skills…and Elementary School
How elementary students can build research and media literacy skills.
- Apr 21, 2012 Administration and Technology
How administrators can use technology with more care and context.
- Apr 11, 2012 Open Badges in Education
A look at how open badges fit into education.
- Mar 13, 2012 Millennials and Their “Hyperconnected” Lives
How hyperconnected life shapes the literate lives of Millennials.
- Jan 17, 2012 Creating a Culture of Online Learning
How to build a classroom culture around online learning and student blogging.
2011
- Feb 11, 2011 The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus Saga Continues…
Why the tree octopus saga still matters for online literacy.
- Jan 26, 2011 Scaffolding Early Learners as they Search & Sift Online Information
How to scaffold young learners as they search and sift online information.
2010
- Dec 29, 2010 Raising a Digital Native
How early literacy and digital life shape a child’s development.
- Nov 10, 2010 What to Think While Thinking Critically Online
What to think about while reading and evaluating information online.
- Oct 13, 2010 What is New Literacies?
A simple explanation of what new literacies means.
2009
- Nov 13, 2009 Article Review and Study Design Task for My Comprehensive Exams
My article review and study design task for comprehensive exams.
- Nov 13, 2009 Philosophy and Pedagogy Statement Task for My Comprehensive Exams
My task for the Statement of Philosophy and Pedagogy portion of the Comprehensive Exams is included below. I have embedded my response at the bottom.
Book notes
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- 2016 The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data
Michael P. Lynch
Publications
2026
- 2026 跨界经纬| Transmedia Storytelling and Literacy Instruction
Report · SLOTA, STEPHEN T; YOUNG, MICHAEL F; O’BYRNE, WIAN; BALLESTRINI, KEVIN. (2026). 跨界经纬| Transmedia Storytelling and Literacy Instruction.
2025
- 2025 Exploring, Incorporating, and Questioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Teacher Education
Position statement · Nash, Brady L; Garcia, Merideth; Young, Carl A; Turner, Kristen Hawley; Rice, Mary; Piotrowski, Amy; O'Byrne, W Ian; McBride, Cherise; McGrail, Ewa; Moran, Clarice. (2025). Exploring, Incorporating, and Questioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Teacher Education. English Education.
- 2025 Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy
Journal article · Savitz, Rachelle S; Morrison, Jennifer D; Brown, Christy; Kane, Britnie D; Aldrich, Charlene; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2025). Middle and High School Teachers’ Perceived Expertise and Needs in Disciplinary Literacy. AERA Open.
2024
- 2024 Secondary Teachers’ Adolescent Literacy Efficacy and Professional Learning Considerations
Journal article · Savitz, Rachelle S; Morrison, Jennifer D; Brown, Christy; Aldrich, Charlene; Kane, Britnie D; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2024). Secondary Teachers’ Adolescent Literacy Efficacy and Professional Learning Considerations. Reading Research Quarterly.
- 2024 ELATE Position Statement: Exploring, Incorporating, and Questioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Teacher Education
Position statement · Nash, Brady L; Garcia, Merideth; Young, Carl A; Turner, Kristen Hawley; Rice, Mary; Piotrowski, Amy; O’Byrne, W Ian; McBride, Cherise; McGrail, Ewa; Moran, Clarice. (2024). ELATE Position Statement: Exploring, Incorporating, and Questioning Generative Artificial Intelligence in English Teacher Education. National Council of Teachers of English.
- 2024 The importance of digital media literacy
Book chapter · Turner, Kristen Hawley; Eisenstock, Bobbie; Hicks, Troy; Jolls, Tessa; O’Byrne, W Ian; Paciga, Kathleen A; Price-Dennis, Detra; Hagerman, Michelle Schira. (2024). The importance of digital media literacy. Handbook of children and screens: Digital media, development, and well-being from birth through adolescence.
2023
- 2023 Digital Wildfires: Tending to social media in the ELA classroom
Journal article · O’Byrne, W Ian; Crandall, Bryan Ripley; Dail, Jennifer S; Goering, Christian Z; Mora, Raúl Alberto; Price-Dennis, Detra; Witte, Shelbie. (2023). Digital Wildfires: Tending to social media in the ELA classroom. Critical Media Literacy.
- 2023 Transcending disciplinary literacy in a digital world
Journal article · O’Byrne, Ian. (2023). Transcending disciplinary literacy in a digital world. Disciplinary literacies: Unpacking research, theory, and practice.
2022
- 2022 Toward transdisciplinarity: Constructing meaning where disciplines intersect, combine, and shift
Journal article · Radakovic, Nenad; O'Byrne, W Ian; Negreiros, Melissa; Hunter-Doniger, Tracey; Pears, Emily; Littlejohn, Cymone. (2022). Toward transdisciplinarity: Constructing meaning where disciplines intersect, combine, and shift. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice.
2020
- 2020 Literacy across the Disciplines: Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Literacy Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Savitz, Rachelle S.; Morrison, Jennifer; Kane, Britnie; Lilly, Todd; Ming, Kavin Michelle; Aldrich, Charlene. (2020). Literacy across the Disciplines: Development and Validation of an Instrument to Assess Literacy Instruction in Middle and High School Classrooms. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas.
2019
- 2019 Defining Instructional Text: Eight literacy scholars discuss framing and trade-offs
Journal article · Hruby, George; Hiebert, Elfrieda; McGill-Franzen, Anne; Draper, Roni Jo; Serafini, Frank; Chandler-Olcott, Kelly; McVerry, J. Greg; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2019). Defining Instructional Text: Eight literacy scholars discuss framing and trade-offs. Ubiquity: The Journal of Literature, Literacy, and the Arts.
- 2019 Educate, empower, advocate: Amplifying marginalized voices in a digital society
Journal article · O’Byrne, W Ian. (2019). Educate, empower, advocate: Amplifying marginalized voices in a digital society. Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education.
2017
- 2017 Web Literacy 2.0
Journal article · Chung, An-Me; Bond Gill, I; O'Byrne, Ian. (2017). Web Literacy 2.0. Repéré à: https://mozilla. github. io/content/web-lit-whitepaper.
- 2017 Social scholarship and the networked scholar: Researching, reading, and writing the web
Journal article · Semingson, Peggy; O’Byrne, Ian; Alberto Mora, Raúl; Kist, William. (2017). Social scholarship and the networked scholar: Researching, reading, and writing the web. Educational media international.
2016
- 2016 Computational participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction
Journal article · Burke, Quinn; O'Byrne, W Ian; Kafai, Yasmin B. (2016). Computational participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction. Journal of adolescent & adult literacy.
- 2016 Alternate Publications. Exploring Literacy in the Open.
Conference paper · McVerry, J Gregory; O'Byrne, WI. (2016). Alternate Publications. Exploring Literacy in the Open.. Literacy Research Association.
- 2016 A new hope: Negotiating the integration of transmedia storytelling and literacy instruction
Journal article · Slota, Stephen T; Young, Michael F; O’Byrne, W Ian; Ballestrini, Kevin. (2016). A new hope: Negotiating the integration of transmedia storytelling and literacy instruction. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.
2015
- 2015 Multicultural education and multiliteracies: Exploration and exposure of literacy practices with preservice teachers
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian; Smith, Shane A. (2015). Multicultural education and multiliteracies: Exploration and exposure of literacy practices with preservice teachers. Reading & Writing Quarterly.
2014
- 2014 Literacy Daily
Journal article · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Literacy Daily. Sign.
- 2014 Multimodal response and writing as poetry experience
Book chapter · Pet, Sue Ringler; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Multimodal response and writing as poetry experience. Exploring Multimodal Composition and Digital Writing.
- 2014 Research on literacy instruction and learning in virtual, blended, and hybrid environments
Book chapter · Pytash, Kristine E; O’Byrne, W Ian. (2014). Research on literacy instruction and learning in virtual, blended, and hybrid environments. Handbook of research on K-12 online and blended learning.
2012
- 2012 Using peer collaboration to support online reading, writing, and communication: An empowerment model for struggling readers
Journal article · Henry, Laurie A; Castek, Jill; O'Byrne, W Ian; Zawilinski, Lisa. (2012). Using peer collaboration to support online reading, writing, and communication: An empowerment model for struggling readers. Reading & Writing Quarterly.
- 2012 Developing three formats for assessing online reading comprehension: The ORCA project year 3
Journal article · Leu, DJ; Forzani, E; Kulikowich, J; Sedransk, N; Coiro, J; McVerry, G; Zawilinski, L; O'Byrne, I; Hillinger, M; Kennedy, Ck. (2012). Developing three formats for assessing online reading comprehension: The ORCA project year 3. Washington, DC.
- 2012 Online reading comprehension assessment: A preliminary study of online reading comprehension ability in rich and poor schools.
Conference paper · Leu, Don; Coiro, Julie; O'Byrne, Ian; McVerry, J Gregory. (2012). Online reading comprehension assessment: A preliminary study of online reading comprehension ability in rich and poor schools.. Literacy Research Association.
- 2012 Cool Tools: Potential Uses, Assessments, and Methodologies for the Literacy Educator and Researcher
Conference paper · McVerry, J Gregory; O'Byrne, Ian; John, Bartles; Joanne, Rhodes; Katina, Zammit; Devere, Wosley. (2012). Cool Tools: Potential Uses, Assessments, and Methodologies for the Literacy Educator and Researcher. Literacy Research Association.
2009
- 2009 The new literacies of online reading comprehension and the irony of No Child Left Behind: Students who require our assistance the most, actually receive it the least
Book chapter · Leu, Donald J; McVerry, J Gregory; O’Byrne, W Ian; Zawilinski, Lisa; Castek, Jill; Hartman, Douglas K. (2009). The new literacies of online reading comprehension and the irony of No Child Left Behind: Students who require our assistance the most, actually receive it the least. Lesley Mandel Morrow, Robert Rueda, & Diane Lapp. Handbook of research on literacy instruction: Issues of diversity, policy, and equity. New York: Guilford.
- 2009 Measuring the dispositions of online reading comprehension: A preliminary validation study
Book chapter · O’Byrne, W Ian; McVerry, J Gregory. (2009). Measuring the dispositions of online reading comprehension: A preliminary validation study. National reading conference yearbook.
2007
- 2007 Toward a taxonomy of online reading comprehension strategies
Conference paper · Zawilinski, Lisa; Carter, Amy; O’Byrne, Ian; McVerry, Greg; Nierlich, Theresa; Leu, Donald J. (2007). Toward a taxonomy of online reading comprehension strategies. 57rd Annual Meeting of the National Reading Conference (Austin, TX).