Food for thought:
Mark Bauerlein's essay, "Online Literacy Is a Lesser Kind" from the chronicle of higher education.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i04/04b01001.htm
Will Richardson's blog entry, "Reading Online is Not Reading On Paper"
http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/reading-online-is-not-reading-on-paper/
Mark Federman's essay, "Why Johnny And Janey Can't Read, And Why Mr. And Ms. Smith Can't Teach: The challenge of multiple media literacies in a tumultuous time
http://individual.utoronto.ca/markfederman/WhyJohnnyandJaneyCantRead.pdf
Note Will Richardson's subsequent blog post where he clarifies some points:
http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/color-me-embarrassed/
None of this seems to take into account the really interesting work being done by the UConn New Literacies people:
http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu/
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