http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/reading-with-a-writers-mind/ The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:12:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/reading-with-a-writers-mind/#comment-2474 Borderland » Blog Archive » 5 Essential Strategies for Reading the Web Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:25:04 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/reading-with-a-writers-mind/#comment-2474 [...] Will asked an important question (a few, really) about how reading is different on the internet than in conventional ink and paper texts. Among several questions that Will asked, I find these most interesting: How is reading literacy changed by the social creation of highly distributed digital texts on the Web?….If they are reading them in the same way that they are reading a book, isn’t that a problem?….Should they be reading to engage the ideas that are being presented?….Once we’ve figured out how to “read” Wikipedia and blogs and the like, how do we learn (and teach) how to write it as well? [...] […] Will asked an important question (a few, really) about how reading is different on the internet than in conventional ink and paper texts. Among several questions that Will asked, I find these most interesting: How is reading literacy changed by the social creation of highly distributed digital texts on the Web?….If they are reading them in the same way that they are reading a book, isn’t that a problem?….Should they be reading to engage the ideas that are being presented?….Once we’ve figured out how to “read” Wikipedia and blogs and the like, how do we learn (and teach) how to write it as well? […]

]]> http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/reading-with-a-writers-mind/#comment-2469 john brandt Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:24:04 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2006/reading-with-a-writers-mind/#comment-2469 You raise some very interesting insights into the process of reading/writing in the W2.0 world. Since I started my own blog (actually two of them), I find myself reading in this same manner (as a writer). My immediate reaction is to feel conflicted, trying to decide if I should comment on what the person has stated, or take this as a root for one of my own blog entries. You raise some very interesting insights into the process of reading/writing in the W2.0 world. Since I started my own blog (actually two of them), I find myself reading in this same manner (as a writer). My immediate reaction is to feel conflicted, trying to decide if I should comment on what the person has stated, or take this as a root for one of my own blog entries.

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