Last summer, I had the opportunity to attend the annual conference of United Kingdom Literacy Association. I met some wonderful people, and it was so exciting to hear about the research happening in the UK and Australia. Mary Louise Gomez, Melissa Schieble, Dawnene Hassett, and I also have an article out in the most recent issue of Literacy, published by UKLA. We drew on Melissa’s research with pre-service teachers’ and adolescents’ use of Moodle, an open-source, web-based software, to theorize how their meaning making processes embody distributed cognition. Entitled Technology, Learning, and Instruction: Distributed Cognition in the Secondary English Classroom, the article examines how three key elements function as distributed tools to facilitate literacy learning and critical thinking around the graphic novel American Born Chinese.

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