Book Contents

Preface
Rand Spiro, Mike DeSchryver, Michelle Schira Hagerman, Paul Morsink, and Penny Thompson
 viii
Chapter 1 David Reinking and Jamie Colwell

A Brief History of Information Sources in the Late 20th and Early 21st Century (A Simulation)
 3
Chapter 2 David R.Olson
Literacy and the Technologies of Knowing		 21
Chapter 3 Mark Bauerlein
The Resistance to 21st-Century Reading		 26
Chapter 4 James Paul Gee
Three Paradigms in Reading (Really Literacy) Research and Digital Media		 35
Chapter 5 Rand J. Spiro, Hannah Klautke, and Angela K. Johnson

All Bets Are Off: How Certain Kinds of Reading to Learn on the Web Are Totally Different from What We Learned from Research on Traditional Text Comprehension and Learning from Text
 45
Chapter 6 Julie Coiro
Purposeful, Critical, and Flexible: Vital Dimensions of Online Reading and Learning		 53
Chapter 7 Mark Warschauer
From Computers and the Web to Mobile Devices and e-Texts: The Transition to Digital Reading Continues		 65
Chapter 8 Douglas K. Hartman and Paul M. Morsink
Reading at a Million Crossroads: Massively Pluralized Practices and Conceptions of Reading		 74
Chapter 9 Susan R. Goldman
Reading and the Web: Broadening the Need for Complex Comprehension		 89
Chapter 10 Paul van den Broek and Panayiota Kendeou

Building Coherence in Web-Based and Other Non-Traditional Reading Environments: Cognitive Opportunities and Challenges
 104
Chapter 11 Gail E. Hawisher and Scott Filkins
Disequilibrium.edu: Negotiating New Relationships Between Online Reading and Writing		 115
Chapter 12 Donna E. Alvermann and Jennifer L. Bogdanich

“Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent”: Shakespeare, Kuhn, and Instability in the Field of Reading Education
 129
Chapter 13 Michael L. Kamil
Past, Present, and Future Conditions and Practices of Reading		 139
Chapter 14 Nell K. Duke, Shenglan Zhang, and Paul M. Morsink
Neglected Areas of Instruction: Bad for Print, Worse for the Internet		 148
Chapter 15 Colin Harrison
We’re Closing the Digital Divide: Now Let’s Work on Closing the Teleological Divide		 162
Chapter 16 Allan Collins and Richard Halverson
The Functionality of Literacy in a Digital World		 172
Index 181



Spiro, R. J., DeSchryver, M., Hagerman, M.S., Morsink, P. M., & Thompson, P. (Eds.). (2015).  Reading at a crossroads? Disjunctures and continuities in current conceptions and practices. New York: Routledge.