The Internet provides children and student teachers with a wide range of resource material, and reading the Internet is increasingly part of life both in and out of school. As reading the Internet differs in some key ways from reading print texts, this has several implications for our work with student teachers, who need to:
be aware of the nature of reading the Internet
be able to recognise the varied (and often extensive) skills that children have developed in out-of-school contexts
develop appropriate approaches for supporting children's encounters with the Internet in school
develop their own critical reading skills and support children in doing so too
