Snow, C. E., Burns, M. S., & Griffin, P. (Eds.) (1998). Preventing reading difficulties in young children. National Research Council. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. [Available: http://bob.nap.edu/html/prdyc/] Note: Please read the Executive Summary carefully and then read the remaining portions for useful information.

National Reading Panel (2000). Teaching Children To Read: An Evidence-Based Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature on Reading and Its Implications for Reading Instruction. Washington, DC: NICHHD. [Available: http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrppubskey.cfm] Note: Please read the Executive Summary carefully and then read the remaining portions for useful information.

Leu, D. J., Jr. & Kinzer, C. K. (2000). The convergence of literacy instruction and networked technologies for information and communication. Reading Research Quarterly. 35. 108-27.

Leu, D. J., Jr. (2000). Our children's future: Changing the focus of literacy and literacy instruction. Reading Online. [Article reprinted from The Reading Teacher. 53. 424-31]. [Online Serial]. Available: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/focus/

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CEO Forum (1999). Professional development: A link to better learning. [Online]. Available: http://www.ceoforum.org/reports.cfm?RID=2 [1999, March 1].

CEO Forum (2000). School Technology and Readiness. [Online]. Available: http://www.ceoforum.org/reports.cfm?RID=4

Leu, D. J., Karchmer, R., & Leu, D. D. (1999). The Miss Rumphius Effect: Envisionments for literacy and learning that transform the Internet. Reading Online. [Reprinted from The Reading Teacher, 52, 636-42.] [Online serial]. Available: http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/rumphius.html

Labbo, L. D. & Reinking, D. (2000). Negotiating the multiple realities of technology in literacy research and instruction. Reading Research Quarterly. 34. 478-92.

Leu, D. J. (2000). Continuously changing technologies and envisionments for literacy: Deictic consequences for literacy education in an information age. In M. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson, R. Barr. (Eds.). Handbook of reading research, Volume III. Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum. 743-70.

Reinking, D. (1998). Synthesizing technological transformations of literacy in a post-typographic world. In D. Reinking, M. McKenna, L. D. Labbo, & R. Kieffer (Eds.). Handbook of literacy and technology: Transformations in a post-typographic world Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. xi-xxx.

Web-based Education Commission (2000). The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice. Washington, D.C. [Online]. Available: http://interact.hpcnet.org/webcommission/index.htm.

U.S. Department of Education (1999). Getting America's students ready for the 21st century: Meeting the technology literacy challenge. [Online]. Available: http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Plan/NatTechPlan/ [1999, January 30].

Thoroughly explore these sites and be prepared to discuss both what you found and its significance to education in the US:

Becker, H. & Riel, M. (2000). Teacher Professional Engagement and Constructivist-Compatible Computer Use. [Online]. Available: http://www.crito.uci.edu/frameset-nn.htm [Note: This is a little difficult to locate. Let me know on our list if you have problems.]

The Children’s Partnership (2000). Online content for low-income and underserved Americans: The digital divide’s new frontier. [Online]. Available: http://www.childrenspartnership.org/pub/low_income/index.html.

Russell, M. & Plati, T. (2000). Mode of Administration Effects on MCAS Composition Performance for Grades Four, Eight, and Ten. [Online]. Available: http://nbetpp.bc.edu/reports.html.

Labbo, L. (1996). A semiotic analysis of young children’s symbol making in a classroom computer center. Reading Research Quarterly. 51. 356-85.

Mikulecky, L., & Kirkley, J. R. (1998). Changing workplaces, changing classes: The new role of technology in workplace literacy. In D. Reinking, M. McKenna, L. D. Labbo, & R. Kieffer (Eds.). Handbook of literacy and technology: Transformations in a post-typographic world. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. 303-20.

Irish Ministry of Education. (1998). Schools - IT 2000. [www document]. Retrieved on January 30, 1999 from URL http://www.irlgov.ie/educ/it2000/it2000.htm.