Eight-year-olds seeking information with ipads: dimensions of reading competence

Eight-year-olds seeking information with ipads : dimensions of reading competence

Wennås Brante, Eva, 1961- (author): Malmö universitet,Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM),Disciplinary literacy and inclusive teaching

Walldén, Robert, PhD, 1981- (author): Malmö universitet,Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM),Disciplinary literacy and inclusive teaching

Ridell, Kim, PhD, 1988- (author): Malmö universitet,Institutionen för kultur, språk och medier (KSM),Disciplinary literacy and inclusive teaching

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The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, 2023
2023
English.
In: EARLI 2023. - : The European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction.

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Abstract Subject headings

Children use digital environments at an early age and should be supported from the start of school to a conscious and critical way of navigating the internet.Previous studies show that children have vague ideas about how the information has ended up on the internet, how it should be read and evaluated. In thisexploratory study, we investigated how children start an internet search, how they formulate their search query and what they pay attention to when the searchresult is obtained, as well as how they read the information from the screen. 15 eight-year-old children performed the searches in small groups, using one tabletin joint searches. The children's speech and screen activity were recorded. The data was analyzed with the help of Luke and Freebody's resource model to callin different dimensions of reading competence that are actualized when students initiate searches and navigate search results. The results show that thestudents can use speech and writing to quickly search for specific information. At the same time, they are disinclined to stop and reflect on the relevance,credibility, and sender of the search results. With interactional support, some students were able to identify the sender of the information and reason about which50type of sender might be credible. To reach a more developed thinking and awareness that digital information has a sender, teaching that promotes criticalinformation awareness and multimodal text competence is required.

By the author/editor: Wennås Brante, E ...; Walldén, Robert, ...; Ridell, Kim, PhD ...

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