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Jill Castek is Associate Professor in the department of Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies. Dr. Castek has a PhD from the University of Connecticut in Education Psychology emphasizing Cognition and Instruction with a focus on Literacy and Technology. She was a Neag fellow in the New Literacies Research Lab and completed a post-doc at the University of California, Berkeley working with the Learning Design Group at the Lawrence Hall of Science. A former teacher and literacy specialist, Jill has over a decade of experience working to support striving readers and English language learners in the Bay Area of California.Show Less
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Courses
- DLData Literacy
- LTLiteracy Technology
- LALiteracy and the Arts
- TLNTTeaching and Learning with New Technologies
- NMLNew Media and Learning
- TNTTeaching with New Technologies
- TLRTechnology in Literacy Research
Grants
- Developing a Network to Coordinate Research on Equity Practices and Cultures in STEM Maker Education
Principal Investigator (PI)
2020
$38.4K
Active - Synthesis and Design Workshop: Principles for the Design of Digitally-Distributed, Studio-Based STEM Learning Environments
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$99.8K
- Advancing Digital Equity in Public Libraries: Assessing Library Patrons' Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$232.2K
Publications (87)
Recent
- Student Perspectives on Multimodal Composing in the L2 Classroom: Tensions with Audience, Media, Learning, and Sharing
2020
- Cultivating Disciplinary Futures in a School-Based Digital Atelier
2017
- Assessing and Addressing Patrons' Digital Problem Solving Skills: What Does Digital Equity Look Like in the Library?
2017
- Disciplinary and Digital Literacies: Three Synergies
2016
- Digital literacies for disciplinary learning: A call to action
2016
- Personal Inquiry and Online Research
2016
- Collaborative Online Inquiry: Exploring Students’ Skills in Locating, Reading, and Communicating Information
2016
- exploring the Potential of Internet Reciprocal Teaching to Improve online Reading
2016
- Making It Social: Considering the Purpose of Literacy to Support Participation in Making and Engineering
2016
- Program Design: Volunteering in a Digital Literacy Program
2015
- Tutors: The Tutor-Learner Relationship
2015
- Program Design: Learning Digital Skills in a Corrections Setting
2015
- Learners: Learners who Become Tutors
2015
- Program Design: Tutor-Facilitated Digital Literacy Acquisition
2015
- Executive Summary: Tutor-facilitated Digital Literacy Acquisition
2015
- Fear to Fascination: Learner Confidence and Blended Instruction for Digital Literacy Acquisition
2015
- Job Seeking Learners: Digital Literacy Acquisition Case Study
2015
- Language Learners: Tutors' Perspectives
2015
- Language Learners: Learners' Perspectives
2015
- Program Design: Learning Digital Skills in a Time-limited Program
2015
- Language Learners: The Role of Online Materials
2015
- Learners: Impact
2015
- Use of apps and devices for fostering mobile learning of literacy practices
2015
- Learners: Development of Self-Confidence
2015
- Learners: Self-Paced Learning
2015
- Volunteers in an Adult Literacy Library Program: Digital Literacy Acquisition Case Study
2015
- Community Connections: Digital Literacy Acquisition Policy Brief
2015
- Program Design: The Learner Path
2015
- Tutors: Tutoring Strategies and Organizing Learning
2015
- Developing Digital Literacy: A Flexible Model Designed to Meet Learners' Needs
2015
- Operationalizing Success in a Digital Learning Environment Designed to Support Vulnerable Adults
2015
- Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online research and comprehension
2015
- Learners: Measuring Success
2015
- Language Learners: The Learner/Tutor Relationship
2015
- Understanding What Students Know
2015
- Tutors: Personal Qualities of Tutors
2015
- Exploring Digital Literacy Acquisition in a Prison Reentry Program
2015
- Corrections and Reentry: Digital Literacy Acquisition Case Study
2015
- The role of a self-paced, tutor-facilitated online learning environment in digital literacy acquisition and English language development among adult Spanish speakers
2015
- Qualitative Data from: Tutor-Facilitated Digital Literacy Acquisition in Hard-to-Serve Populations
2015
- Conquering the computer: Digital literacy acquisition among vulnerable adult learners
2014
- Founded in 1875
2014
- Production and consumption
2014
- Wondering+ online inquiry= learning
2014
- Thank You to Our Reviewers
2014
- How Do Adults Acquire Digital Literacy Skills? Exploring Tutor-facilitated Learning and Teaching Within Community Based Organizations
2014
- New literacies: A dual level theory of the changing nature of literacy, instruction, and assessment
2013
- Selecting Materials for the Literacy Program
2013
- New literacies and the new literacies of online reading comprehension: A dual level theory
2013
- Using apps to support disciplinary literacy and science learning
2013
- Tutor-Facilitated Adult Digital Literacy Learning: Insights from a Case Study
2013
- Examining 7th Graders’ Tablet-Created Screencasts to Promote Safe Driving: Reflections from
2013
- Using peer collaboration to support online reading, writing, and communication: An empowerment model for struggling readers
2012
- Using multimedia to support generative vocabulary learning
2012
- Examining peer collaboration in online inquiry
2012
- Uncovering online reading comprehension processes: Two adolescents reading independently and collaboratively on the Internet
2011
- Expanding Literacy Teachers’ Ways of Knowing through Visual Literacy and Web 2.0 Collaboration
2011
- Assessment frameworks for teaching and learning English language arts in a digital age
2011
- Examining multiple dimensions of word knowledge for content vocabulary understanding
2011
- Department--Making the Most of New Technologies to Support Literacy Using eZines to Engage Readers and Writers.
2010
- Measuring online reading comprehension in open networked spaces: Challenges, concerns, and choices
2010
- Silent reading and online reading comprehension
2010
- The new literacies of online reading comprehension and the irony of no child left behind: Students who require our assistance the most, actually receive it the least
2009
- 2008-2009 Board of Reviewers
2009
- How do 4th and 5th grade students acquire the new literacies of online reading comprehension
2008
- Thinking outside the book: Reading the world with Google Earth
2008
- Thinking outside the book: engaging students with WebQuests
2008
- Making Reading and Writing Connections Online
2008
- Comprehension instruction: research-based best practices
2008
- Inviting Students to Become Authors Online
2008
- 2007-2008 Board of Reviewers
2008
- Collaborative literacy: Blogs and Internet projects
2008
- Defining online reading comprehension: Using think aloud verbal protocols to refine a preliminary model of Internet reading comprehension processes
2007
- Thinking Outside the Book: Online Resources That Make Reading Fun
2007
- Unlocking the potential of K-12 classroom websites to enhance learning
2007
- Adapting reciprocal teaching to the Internet using telecollaborative projects
2006
- The changing nature of online reading comprehension: Examining effects of Internet reciprocal teaching on adolescents’ acquisition of new literacies and content knowledge in science
2006
- Reading adventures online: Five ways to introduce the new literacies of the Internet through children's literature
2006
- Thinking about our future as researchers: New literacies, new challenges, and new opportunities
2006
- Evaluating the development of scientific knowledge and new forms of reading comprehension during online learning
2005
- FINAL REPORT--DRAFT
2005
- Professional Materials
2005
- Developing new literacies among multilingual learners in the elementary grades
2004
- The lessons that children teach us: Integrating children's literature and the new literacies of the Internet
2004
- Symposium Presentation Research ethics: What we know and what we didn’t
2004
- Case technologies to enhance literacy learning: A new model for early literacy teacher preparation
2004
- Writing across time and space: New literacies and online communication
2004