Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information
Citation
O'Byrne, W Ian (2014). Online content construction: Empowering students as readers and writers of online information. In Exploring Technology for Writing and Writing Instruction (Chapter 16, pp. 276–297). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4341-3.ch016
Abstract
It is increasingly clear that this generation of adolescents is almost always connected to online information. Indeed, the Internet has quickly become this generation’s defining technology for literacy, in part due to facilitating access to an unlimited amount of online information and media. Yet it is a paradox that history’s first generation of “always connected” individuals is not taught how to effectively and authentically use the digital texts and tools that permeate society. As society has incorporated dynamic and new media in everyday life, educators are required to expand traditional understandings of text and literacy that have replaced many of the ways that we communicate, create, and socialize. Put simply, there is a need to value and construct different kinds of texts, learning, and interactions within the classroom. To achieve this goal, this chapter presents a synthesis of theoretical perspectives and research into a new instructional model known as Online Content Construction (OCC). OCC is defined as the skills, strategies, and dispositions necessary as students construct, redesign, or reinvent online texts by actively encoding and decoding meaning through the use of digital texts and tools.
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