What does reading look like today?

"At the School Library Journal's Leadership Summit 2011, Director Lee Rainie looked at the “state of reading” in the digital age by going through Pew Internet data about how teens use the internet, smartphones, and social networking sites. He argued that reading is now 1) raw material for further creation; 2) real-time in the mobile age; 3) a “social contact sport” as teens share reading and other media and learn from them" (Pew Internet).

Reading, Writing, & Research in the Digital Age

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What does this mean for teacher-librarians? To me, this means that we have to look beyond traditional novels and texts and provide access to technology that promotes this "state of reading." Not every student is going to have access to these tools at home. I believe that we need to "level the playing field" by providing access to technologies that are being used by other students regularly.