Skim Dive Surface

<p><i><b>Students are reading on screens more than ever--how can we teach them to be better digital readers?</b></i> <p/> Smartphones laptops tablets: college students are reading on-screen all the time and digital devices shape students' understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education however teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities unless they're lamenting students' attention spans or the distractions available to students when they're learning online.</p><p><i>Skim Dive Surface</i> offers a corrective to these conversations--an invitation to focus not on losses to student learning but on the spectrum of affordances available within digital learning environments. It is designed to help college instructors across the curriculum teach digital reading in their classes whether they teach face-to-face fully online or somewhere in between. Placing research from cognitive psychology neuroscience learning science and composition in dialogue with insight from the scholarship of teaching and learning Jenae Cohn shows how teachers can better frame scaffold and implement effective digital reading assignments. She positions digital reading as part of a cluster of literacies that students should develop in order to communicate effectively in a digital environment.</p>