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, 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.

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

Michigan Cooperative Directors Association

Midwest Collaborative for Library Services

Michigan Library Association

Agenda

9:30     Welcome & Introduction
9:40     Keynote address: Maryanne Wolf
11:15   Break with coffee
11:30   Plenary address: 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://www.mcls.org/training-events/training-events-list/training-event/?ref_cID=198&bID=0&dd_asId=5948