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The Digital Reading Experiences Of Middle School Readers: A Phenomenological Study, Laura A. Hayward
The Digital Reading Experiences Of Middle School Readers: A Phenomenological Study, Laura A. Hayward
Theses and Dissertations
Reading digitally is part of the 21st century New Literacies, residing in the curriculum as a comprehension skill developed with print reading skills. Differences exist between purpose of digital reading and print reading, manifested in the association of digital reading as a mostly non-fiction genre, the immediacy to digital information and its relevance to a reader’s decision about the usefulness of the information. Contrastingly, print reading can be fiction or non-fiction with access to all the text. The differences suggest that learning focused on immediate evaluation, synthesis, and application of information while reading digitally should be taught in the context …