Integrating technology with literacy

This paper reports on classroom-based research that was designed to monitor the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in a teacher guided collaborative online learning context to encourage students’ critical response to literary texts. The study investigates the premise that an ICT project where children read books and then use email communication to exchange responses with other learners will support critical thinking. Videos of classroom observations, journals and rap sheets were analysed for individual students’ levels of critical awareness.