The Research Questions
1. What changes in text preparation are necessary to allow our technology-based tool to highlight patterns that exist within the textbook content?
2. What features should be built into a technology-based tool to provide students with special needs greater access to content area knowledge?
3. What features should be built into a technology-based tool to help students learn to use effective reading and study strategies within digital texts and Web sites?
4. What features can be included in a technology-based tool that will promote student self-concept and active engagement?
5. What do teachers require to manage an instructional approach to improve students’ access to curricula and their development of reading abilities, study skills, engagement, and self-concept?
6. What supports do teachers require to tie a technology-based tool and related instructional materials and methods to local and national learning standards?
7. What changes in editorial procedures will be required for publishers to prepare electronic content effectively for use in support of reading and studying?
From “Jumping off the Page: Content Area Curriculum for the Internet Age” by Bart Pisha and Peggy Coyne.
Reading Online, www.readingonline.org
Posted November 2001