Living the Dissertation!

• started process to apply to grad school in May 2009, right after my dad, Robert Scannell died. 
• had been teaching in Sanger.  Nick had graduated from high school.
• Marian needed help with our parents so I asked Sanger ISD (Bob Danley, MS principal) if I could take a year off to help care for Mom and Dad in Hawaii.  Mr. Danley said ok.  Then the word came down from the superintendent who said no, I had to resign.  That was "the straw that broke the camel's back".  I left Sanger.
• Moved to Hawaii in late August 2008 to care for parents.  My dad, Bob Scannell, died in May 2009 so I'm very glad I did this.
• Sarah helped me decide to apply for graduate school at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX.  
• Flew back to Texas after living in Hawaii for a year (July 1, 2009)
• Started doctoral program August 2009
• Graduated May 2015
• Events in between
• Sarah and Miguel married May 2013
• Janette Scannell (Peter's wife) died Sept. 12, 2013
• National Writing Project - one summer attending
• Writing with Kathy Dixon, Rebecca Putman, Julie Williams
• Lots of support from office mate, Robyn Tschantz

Pain points

"pain points" - problem, real or perceived

also do 4 native English speakers

how do they read online?

with the assumption that they will be tested, how do they read it?

how do you go about digesting the material you've been assigned to learn?

opening up two browsers?

IMing friends

Cliff notes in Spanish?

Practical and realistic

Real world picture 

Age might change a lot of things

expected to read academic reading on the Internet

different L1s

Qual thoughts

studies done on different reading strategies for different L1s but not when using the Internet 

• 2nd Language acquisition theories
• how 2nd language teaching has changed over the decades
• political changes in the schools
• increase in the number of immigrants coming to U.S.
• importance/prominence of English as global language
• globalization
• how does 1st language affect acquisition?
• ease of acquisition
• motivation
• preference
• resistance
• how does Internet influence this?

Adult literacy

importance for workplace

Internet skills needed

How does culture/background play a role?

sociocultural

The theory/theorist that's had the most influence in literacy

Vygotsky

Sociocultural

Digital literacy

3 theorists

Lev Vygotsky

James Gee

     digital literacy

     Big D, little d - discourse

Advantages of hyper-references

• advantages of hyper-references
• disadvantages
• familiarity with computers?
• familiarity/availability with cell phones, etc
• if looking for strategies, need to make sure participants familiar with hypertext so don't face orientation and navigation difficulties
• need to make sure text is not too difficult 
• too many confusing hypertext links defeats the purpose
• HOW to select reading materials
• ANALYSIS of data
• pain points - look at Intro to qual methods ppt

1.  benefits of think-alouds

2. short term memory

3. long term memory

4.  define "my" think-aloud = continuously?  stop at different point?

Knowledge of single reality

• Can we have knowledge of a single reality that is independent of the knower? NO
• is there a reality without us seeing or experiencing it?
• Knowledge is not only constructed by and within the individual but is also socially constructed with influences by individuals and environments coming into contact.
• There is knowledge "out there" that just hasn't been acknowledged/discovered yet 
• Is knowledge social in nature?
• The perception of knowledge depends on the individual or group
• Can a man be "an island"?  Search for knowledge by himself without ANY outside influences?
• There should be no attempt to achieve consensus among differing positions except to agree or disagree
• There is something out there in the universe, omniscient?
• In reading, knowledge is not located within the text or the reader but in the transaction at that particular point in time.  VERY Rosenblatt.  More experiences changes the transaction the next time the text is "read"

Assumptions

assumptions - computer knowledge

learning styles  are different for different ethnicities (does this mean by analogy) do different languages have different learning styles

what about different languages?

Does the language make a difference in how they access digital text?

What about social media?

Strategy framework

Macaro article

• strategies occur in the brain and in working memory
• the description of the strategy is related to a goal, a situation and a mental action
• strategies are essential for processing information, not just for faster processing
• almost all learners have access to strategies
• the essential nature of the strategy is constant
• which strategy is selected and how it is used depends on the nature of the task and the problems that entail
• successful learning does not depend on how often a strategy is used but how the user integrates/manages/employs the chosen strategy