eSeek

Profound changes to literacy are taking place in todays’ digital and networked world. In particular, the exposition of the Internet use has changed literacy practices in many ways requiring new reading skills and strategies. eSeek is a multidisciplinary research project that aims at reaching a better understanding on these new literacy demands on the Internet for school-aged children.

Aim of the project is to

• increase our understanding of Internet information seeking skills and their underlying factors in 11−13 year-old school-aged children,
• clarify how children with different learning difficulties differ in Internet seeking skills and neural processes compared to typical learners, and
• provide knowledge which promotes creating teaching methods for effective use of the Internet in school context.

More information can be found in the webpages of the eSeek project.

Project team

• Principal investigator Prof. Paavo Leppänen, University of Jyväskylä
• Prof. Mikko Aro, University of Jyväskylä
• Jarkko Hautala, PhD, University of Jyväskylä
• Jarmo Hämäläinen, PhD, University of Jyväskylä
• Carita Kiili, PhD, University of Jyväskylä
• Otto Loberg, PhD student, University of Jyväskylä
• Kaisa Lohvansuu, PhD, University of Jyväskylä

 Funding

• The Academy of Finland 2014-2017, Research Program: The Future of Learning, Knowledge and Skills (TULOS)

Collaborators

• Prof. Donald Leu, University of Connecticut
• Prof. Miika Marttunen, University of Jyväskylä
• Prof. Bruce McCandliss, Vanderbilt University
• PhD Ron Cole, President of Boulder Language Technologies
• PhD Tuija Aro, Niilo Mäki Insitute, Jyväskylä
• PhD Piia Björn, University of Jyväskylä
• Prof. Antti Penttinen, University of Jyväskylä