Online reading comprehension

"Small Differences Matter: The DNA of Online Reading Comprehension" By Greg McVerry relates and differentiates our genetic code to online reading and traditional reading.  

The differences seem to outweigh the comparisons but that seems to be because not all students have had the time to be able to learn how to work with the internet.  I can connect this part of the article to another article we had to read about how people who live in poorer areas, never get a chance to use computers.  Everything is online now and if you are unsure of the computer and how to use the internet, then you may be plagiarizing and using non credible sources.  

Although, children who do have a background of using the internet still outperform those children who do not have the background; but are they going about it the correct way?

I think students learn by doing and by trial and error & "skilled online readers “manipulate and

mold information to achieve a higher goal” (Kaku, 2014, chapter 7, 24:26)."

For our maker monday challenge, we discussed how we would teach children about how to synthesize, analyzes etc online.  Our group talked about synthesizing online information.  We talked about how we used to have to do papers on a person of our choice and our teacher would make us use at least three references and then we had to do that awful peer editing and make a bunch of rough drafts before we could hand in a final draft.  This exercise, our group agreed, was a great for learning how to synthesize online data even though we all hated it as kids.  The kids learn to take info from online and in books and other places and read them, put it into their own words, then make it into a paper. But only after a couple times did we really get how to take information from all different sites to  make one idea on paper.  The peer editing part touches on analyzing other people's information to see if it makes sense or if they're just copying other people's information and not making it their own.  The more navigational and comprehension strategies the students learn the better they will get.

https://medium.com/digital-teaching-and-learning/small-differences-matter-the-dna-of-online-reading-comprehension-707d880959ea#.6w7a3l55s