Reading Redefined: Deep reading, learning, and the impact of digitization. Time: 9:30 am - 4:00 pm Location: Lansing Community College - West Campus, 5708 Cornerstone Dr, Lansing, Michigan 48917 Cost: $50.00 (includes lunch) [Maryanne Wolf.jpg] Maryanne Wolf, Ph.D. - Director, Center for Reading and Language Research; Author Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain eBooks. Websites. Blogs. Twitter. Facebook. Many of us are awash in digital information, and in the early 21st century much of our reading has migrated from print on paper to text on screens. What has been little understood or even recognized is the way that our reading habits are affected by the medium that we use. This is starting to change. Recent scholarship has inspired articles and media reports (see links below), and awareness is growing that our choice in reading technology - printed book, Kindle, iPad, computer monitor - makes an important difference in our understanding and retention of what we read. Since eBooks began to appear, but especially after Amazon introduced the Kindle, demand from our patrons has meant that librarians are busy selecting, acquiring, and loaning digital books. But few of us have stopped to consider the implications for readers of the new formats. On September 30, a collaborative of library service agencies are sponsoring Reading Redefined: Deep reading, learning, and the impact of digitization, a one-day symposium to discuss the ways that reading is changing as our environment and interactions become ever more digital. We are excited to have Maryanne Wolf and Natalie Phillips as plenary speakers. They are both preeminent researchers in the field. In addition to their own published research, they have been featured in numerous articles and interviews. Links to some of these can be found below. [IMLS logo.png] This project is supported, in part, by the Library of Michigan with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Current Sponsors Library of Michigan<http://www.michigan.gov/libraryofmichigan> Michigan Cooperative Directors Association Midwest Collaborative for Library Services<http://mcls.org/> Michigan Library Association<http://www.milibraries.org/> Agenda 9:30 Welcome & Introduction 9:40 Keynote address: Maryanne Wolf [new-window-icon.png] <http://ase.tufts.edu/crlr/team/wolf.htm> 11:15 Break with coffee 11:30 Plenary address: Natalie Phillips [new-window-icon.png] <http://dhlc.cal.msu.edu/people/natalie-phillips/> 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Connected Reading: Apps and Approaches for Teaching Digital Texts Troy Hicks, Professor of English, Central Michigan University Kristen Hawley Turner, Associate Professor English, Fordham University 2:00 Technology Tools to Support Close and Critical Digital Reading Kathy Lester, School Library Media Specialist, Plymouth-Canton Community Schools 2:30 "I Just Need a Quote": How Students Really Consume Research Texts Steven Putt, Systems and Web Librarian, Grand Rapids Community College Sean C. Mackey, Assistant Professor of Developmental Writing, Grand Rapids Community College 3:00 Break 3:15 Q & A with speakers 4:00 Adjournment Registration To register, go to the Reading Redefined registration page<http://mcls.org/training-events/training-events-list/training-event/?ref_cID=198&bID=0&dd_asId=4161>. http://www.mcls.org/training-events/training-events-list/training-event/?ref_cID=198&bID=0&dd_asId=5948
