In this dizzying world of click-and-go wikified information, everyone uses fast-and-frugal skimming strategies to evaluate information daily. The challenge is to teach students to devise accurate rules that take advantage of new technology to quickly judge the quality of the information they want to use. The author suggests several digital reading…

E-readers like the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook are beginning to make their way into school libraries and classrooms. It's about time. E-readers have tremendous potential to entice reluctant readers to read more. A study that the authors recently conducted among low-reading-ability middle school students demonstrated that potential.…