#online-reading-comprehension
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Writing
2025
- Apr 8, 2025 One AI Isn’t Enough: Unlock Richer Insights with Multiple Perspectives
Why AI research works better when you use multiple perspectives.
2024
- May 20, 2024 Navigating the Digital Landscape - Enjoy Screens, But Not Too Much, Mostly Together
How to find balance, safety, and agency in a screen-filled world.
2023
- Mar 15, 2023 The Role of AI in Online Reading Comprehension: A New Literacies Perspective
How AI fits into online reading comprehension and new literacies research.
- Feb 8, 2023 Moving From Search to Answers With Bing and ChatGPT
How Bing and ChatGPT are shifting search toward generated answers.
2022
- Feb 9, 2022 Developing a Culture of Inquiry
How to build a classroom culture that supports inquiry.
2021
- Jun 24, 2021 Digital Literacy: Developing Critical Thinking
How digital literacy and critical thinking support stronger reading online.
- Jun 22, 2021 Consume. Curate. Create.
A simple framework for moving from consuming to creating online.
- Feb 10, 2021 Threshold Concepts
How threshold concepts change the way people learn.
2020
- Oct 28, 2020 When Critical Evaluation Goes Too Far
When critical evaluation goes too far and starts to flatten nuance.
2019
- Nov 1, 2019 Three steps needed to empower students (& educators) as critical digital readers & writers
How readers and writers need new skills for the web.
- Aug 7, 2019 Truth, lies, & learning in an online disinformation war
How disinformation war reshapes learning, truth, and safety online.
2018
- Dec 6, 2018 Critically evaluating online information while under attack
How to help readers evaluate online information under pressure.
- Apr 3, 2018 Meaning making while reading online
How online algorithms shape meaning-making and reading.
- Mar 28, 2018 Text tradeoffs as we move from print to pixel
How text changes as literacy moves from print to pixel.
- Feb 15, 2018 The Four Step Process Needed to Write an Annotated Bibliography
How to write an annotated bibliography that evaluates sources well.
- Feb 1, 2018 Assessing students as they read, research, & respond in Hypothesis
How I assess student work with Hypothesis.
- Jan 3, 2018 Clean out your browser extensions
How browser extensions can affect your privacy and security.
2017
- Oct 27, 2017 The three types of web pages you’ll find online
A simple guide to three types of web pages.
- Oct 5, 2017 Making healthy skepticism happen in teaching and learning
How healthy skepticism helps us evaluate information online.
- Aug 10, 2017 Develop an assessment of critical online information literacies
How to assess whether online information is credible and useful.
- Aug 2, 2017 Develop a criteria for critical evaluation of online information
How to help students evaluate online information more critically.
- Jul 19, 2017 Internet Inquiry Projects
How WebQuests can evolve into deeper internet inquiry projects.
- Jan 17, 2017 Private online research & discussion using Hypothes.is groups
How Hypothesis can support annotation and peer review in the classroom.
2016
- Nov 2, 2016 Three steps to move students from readers to writers of digital content
Why students need to move from consuming to creating digital content.
- Jun 9, 2016 Fostering online research & discussion using Hypothesis
How Hypothesis supports online annotation, research, and discussion.
2015
- Oct 21, 2015 Getting Started in Medium: Reading, annotating, commenting, and recommending
A beginner's guide to reading and writing in Medium.
- Aug 27, 2015 Tweaking WordPress to Scaffold & Empower Your Readers
How WordPress tweaks can help readers navigate and contribute.
2014
- Oct 9, 2014 Empowering Learners in the Reader/Writer Nature of the Digital Informational Space
How readers can become writers in digital informational spaces.
- Jun 30, 2014 Work Habits of the Digital Native
How a reading association workshop explored digital texts, tools, and workflows.
2013
- Nov 13, 2013 Empowering Students in the Reader/Writer Nature of Online Information
How to help students read and write more actively online.
- Oct 17, 2013 Beta Testing of the Online Research and Media Skills MOOC
What to expect as we beta test the ORMS MOOC.
- 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.
- Sep 17, 2013 Digital Texts and Tools to Support the Writing Process
A look at digital texts and tools that support my writing process.
- Sep 11, 2013 Synthesis of Argumentation in Online Informational Text
How to synthesize argumentation in online informational texts.
- Jun 14, 2013 Preparing to “Launch” Our Open Badging System
What goes into preparing to launch an open badging system.
- Jun 4, 2013 Reflections on Revisions Needed for an Open Educational Resource
What needs revision after launching an open educational resource.
- Apr 15, 2013 Preparing Teachers & Students for Web Literacies
How Mozilla's web literacies work can help teachers and students learn the web.
- Apr 6, 2013 Keynote at the Literacy and Learning Conference
A keynote on the Common Core and new literacies.
- Feb 16, 2013 On Digital Learning Day…Please Also Celebrate Analog Learning
Why digital learning should still leave room for analog learning.
- Jan 24, 2013 Producing and Sharing Online Screencasts to Support Learners
How screencasts can teach procedures better than text alone.
2012
- Nov 8, 2012 Negotiating The Intersection of Literacy and Technology
How literacy and technology overlap in classroom practice.
- Aug 11, 2012 Student Responsibilities and Educational Technologies
What students and teachers owe each other when using educational technology.
- Aug 7, 2012 Storify and Curiosity
A quick test of Storify and the role of curiosity in trying tools.
- Jul 10, 2012 iPads and our work in the Education Department
What we learned after putting iPads into the Education Department's everyday work.
- May 21, 2012 Google Forms and Online Survey Tools
How Google Forms can be used to build simple online surveys.
- May 8, 2012 Noticing, Naming, and Navigating
How students can notice, name, and navigate online texts.
- Apr 25, 2012 Google Drive, Dropbox, & Cloud Storage
A quick look at cloud storage, backup, and Google Drive.
- Apr 10, 2012 Voicethread and Picture Books
How VoiceThread can support reading and response around picture books.
- Mar 15, 2012 Time and Distractions While Reading Online
How time and distraction shape reading online.
2010
- Nov 10, 2010 What to Think While Thinking Critically Online
What to think about while reading and evaluating information online.
Publications
2013
- 2013 Facilitating critical evaluation skills through content creation: Empowering adolescents as readers and writers of online information
Dissertation · O'Byrne, W Ian. (2013). Facilitating critical evaluation skills through content creation: Empowering adolescents as readers and writers of online information. University of Connecticut.
- 2013 New literacies of online reading comprehension
Book chapter · Leu, Donald J.; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Zawilinski, Lisa; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W. Ian. (2013). New literacies of online reading comprehension. The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics.
2011
- 2011 The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy and learning curriculum
Journal article · Leu, Donald J.; McVerry, J. Gregory; O'Byrne, W Ian; Kiili, Carita; Zawilinski, Lisa; Everett-Cacopardo, Heidi; Kennedy, Clint; Forzani, Elena. (2011). The new literacies of online reading comprehension: Expanding the literacy and learning curriculum. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.