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“It’s easier to read on the Internet—you just click on what you want to read…”

Abilities and skills needed for reading on the Internet

Authors: Maria Rasmusson, Monica Eklund

Published in: Education and Information Technologies | Issue 3/2013

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Today’s youth spend a lot of time on the Internet where they meet a multimodal world. The focus in the present study has been on the skills and abilities needed for on-line reading. This study explores reading on the Internet, with pairs of Swedish students aged 10 and 15. The pairs completed tasks on the Internet and these sessions were video-taped. Five main categories of skills and abilities were found: traditional literacy, multimodal literacy, path-finding, IT abilities, and information abilities. The results support earlier research in the field at large, and also add to the literature on on-line reading, in areas such as the crucial need for the ability to spell and knowing web address conventions in English.

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Title: “It’s easier to read on the Internet—you just click on what you want to read…”
Abilities and skills needed for reading on the Internet
Authors: Maria Rasmusson
Monica Eklund
Publication date: 01-09-2013
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Education and Information Technologies / Issue 3/2013
Print ISSN: 1360-2357
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7608
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-012-9190-3

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