Keynote Speaker Donald Leu

This summer, many of our students will be trading in their schoolbooks for online reading--reading on wikis, on tablets, and on websites. Just how much do our students understand of what they read online? For that matter, how much do we understand of what we read online?

Summer reading--online!

Click here to see an interesting graphic revealing what online readers have to do, and how online reading is different from book reading.

These are important questions to think about as students and teachers spend more time reading and interacting with electronic texts. Keynote speaker Donald Leu, who will be speaking at KSRA on Sunday, October 20, 2013, has studied online reading and comprehension. You can take a look at some of his research on this video. A shorter clip can be found here.