07/08/25

Today, I explored the article Connected Reading: A framework for understanding how adolescents encounter, evaluate, and engage with texts in the digital age by Turner, Hicks, and Zucker. This article really opened my eyes to how much reading has changed in the digital age. Originally a solitary activity, reading is now social and interactive. Literacy today is about sharing and collaborating, not just absorbing information. Based off of this, I made a haiku:

Readers as learners

Sharing thoughts, we read as one

Connected through text

I originally learned poetry and haiku-making in my grade 10 English class. We were tasked with collaborating as a class to make haikus, then as groups, partners, and eventually alone, and sharing them with each other. Thinking about this, and what I’ve read, I see how social connection through reading is just as important as comprehension.