How to Encourage Deep Reading Online

During this Session for Faculty and Staff led by Dr. Jenae Cohn, Author of Skim, Dive, Surface: Teaching Digital Reading, we will consider how we design reading assignments in informed ways to create meaningful, deep, and sustained reading practices with attention to reading on-screen. We will examine the need for attention to students' reading practices on screen in the context of students’ lived experiences, particularly in the wake of increased attention to and need for use of affordable instructional materials online and attentiveness to students’ use of mobile phones for accessing academic materials (Gierdowski 2019). This conversation will be guided with an exploration of a digital reading framework to align with assignment and activity design (Cohn 2021).