5. Like it or not, we must begin to prepare them for their connected futures online. ~Richardson
6. The way today’s students will do science, politics, journalism and business…a decade from now will be shaped by the skills they acquire in…community and the role of citizen media in democracy. ~Howard Rheingold in Richardson
11. The participatory nature of the Web may help foster young minds skilled in communicating, collaborating, and creating in new ways. ~Wolf and Barzillai
12. What will it take for the next generation to read thoughtfully—both in print and online? ~Wolf and Barzillai
13. If we fail to get our collective educator brains around these shifts…then we are not doing everything we can to prepare them for their learning futures. ~Richardson
14. Taking advantage of the wealth of information that is always just a click away demands the use of executive, organizational, critical, and self-monitoring skills to navigate and make sense of the information. ~Wolf and Barzillai
18. Online reading has the potential to mold a mind adept at effectively finding, analyzing and critically evaluating and responding to information across several modalities. ~ Wolf and Barzillai
19. The expert reading brain rarely emerges without guidance and instruction. ~Wolf and Barzillai
20. Human beings were never born to read…reading is a new cognitive function... ~Wolf and Barzillai
21. The requirements of individual writing systems shape reading circuits in the brain. ~Wolf and Barzillai
32. Students are unable to evaluate whether links will be useful or simply distracting.
33. Which link would you select to… … hear John Phillip Santos reading from his works? … to hear an interview with John Phillip Santos? … to read an essay by John Phillip Santos?
35. Based on this page… … what do the links in the header indicate is the purpose of the site? … on which occasions would you use this site? … what do the graphical elements add by way of information?
36. Based on this page… … which elements are most helpful in determining the purpose of the site? … does the page, in fact, do what you predicted?