In a recent study, Don Leu found that with these computers, 7th graders in Maine were much better at researching online than students in Connecticut. This is good news, he says, and it shows that Maine students have a step up in digital literacy.

Changes in schools needed to face down fake news epidemic. Internet literacy needs to be priority, says Neag School professor Don Leu.

Harvard Graduate School of Education (Neag School’s Don Leu, an upcoming featured speaker at Harvard, was interviewed about online learning) 

Students in lower income school districts have a significantly harder time analyzing and understanding information on the Internet than their peers, according to a new UConn study that indicates a troubling online reading achievement gap may exist in the nation’s schools.

Is reading a school textbook and reading information online the same? No, says Donald Leu, a prominent reading researcher, director of UConn’s internationally renowned New Literacies Research Lab in the Neag School of Education and the John and Maria Neag Endowed Chair in Literacy and Technology. “Children today are digital natives, familiar with digital technology […]