Online Reading Comprehension Module 3- Supplemental Readings

Online reading comprehension is becoming as important as teaching student basic reading comprehension.  What teachers need to remember when teaching online reading comprehension needs to be a step-by-step process.  Students and teachers need to understand that all information on the internet isn’t true!  As I read the Leu, et al article, it shared the story about online website about saving the endangered tree octopus was a hoax but 87% of 7^th grade higher performing online readers thought it was true (Leu, et al, 2008).  Stories like this are all over the internet.  Teachers need to teach students about to not only comprehend what they read online but also how understand what they read.  If the students had searched for more information about the endangered tree octopus they would have discovered it’s a not even real animal so it couldn’t be endangered.  I know many adults that need to learn that not everything they read online is true!

Christine Greenhow’s talk about social networking sites and the future of cyberlearning shows how the not only is the internet continuing to grow because of social networking sites but how the world is changing because of technology and internet.  She shares that Kodak filed for bankruptcy because of shift from cameras with film to digital camera and cameras in our phones.  This shows how because of technology growing it causes another past technology to fade away.  Greenhow then shares that teenager’s number one activity outside of school is social networking.  I would say that adults aren’t far behind.  I would be interested to see where adult’s favorite activities fall in terms social networking.

I think that both the Leu article and Greenhow talk show that the world is moving towards learning online.  We as teachers need to help students comprehend what they are learning on line; not just in articles and videos but also through social networking.

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