English Department
The primary learning objectives of this study for
undergraduate students are:
• To encourage freshman students to think self-
consciously about their own reading and learning
practices and consider how the material condi-
tions of their reading and learning shape their ex-
periences.
• To analyze how their own reading practices change
when hand-held reading devices provide all textual
content.
• To get freshman students to think about what
skills and practices define civic literacy.
• To get freshman students to engage in a range of
research and presentation skills that will shape
their academic futures.
The primary teaching objectives of this study are:
• To engage freshman students as active and
• To get teachers to be more self-conscious about vocal participants in shaping their technologic
how the material conditions of reading affect the futures.
ways in which they teach and the ways in which
students learn.
• To analyze how teaching practices change when
hand-held reading devices provide all textual con-
tent.
• To analyze how student reading and learning prac-
tices change when students use hand-held read-
ing devices.
• To better understand the systems that need to
be in place on university campuses in order to bet-
ter integrate technology.