The response to COVID-19 brought rapid attention to online, hybrid/dual and even in-person classroom technologies. School administrators and teachers scrambled to create online learning, and scrambled to enable school buildings and homes to support technology use indoors and outside. IPads, Chromebooks, tablets and other BYOD devices, supporting social networking, collaboration tools, and access to rich virtual environments were made available. Many teachers once thought the Internet was simply a source of information for student book reports or library research (like an online reference book). But the Web is now clearly a vast array of highly interactive educational activities and resources... way beyond webquests or digital texts. Perhaps even more, the Web requires new digital reading comprehension skills and new ways of digital and collaborative writing including co-constructing interactive narratives (drawing on digital and transmedia literacies). Let's explore existing and emerging learning technologies with a treasure hunt, and discuss teaching the new digital reading and writing literacies associated with online information in our content area.
