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Students in the 21st century are essentially multitasking all the time (see Now You See It). We treat that as a crisis; we say that’s a bad thing because they can’t stay focused on one topic.
RESPONSE:multitasking helps us see more and do more, and experience texts and tasks in different ways. There’s no evidence that anyone ever was deeply reading for hours on end with no interruptions.

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Why we don’t value that writing in academia?, is the question for me.
I don’t think there is a crisis. There’s a shift.
I think we need to move with that shift. And we need to embrace that shift and meet students where they are.

Example of meeting students where they are: Hypothesis. It allows students to write about different elements of the text; it still allows to comment in a very traditional annotation way, but it also has this amazing added benefit of being able to add multi-modal elements to the annotations themselves. You can add a link, add an image, or a video to these annotations in exactly the ways that you want to.

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The way we view technology as a hindrance needs to change. As long as we keep a humanistic approach while taking into consideration the ethical ramifications of online tools we will be fine. We need to take advantage of the change in where and how people are writing. Taking advantage of our abilities to multi- task.
I personally am anti-social. With this class for example, I can express myself freely online without fear and learn from my peers from a distant. I have a teacher that takes advantage of online tools, keeping track of our ability to comprehend text by annotating instead of quizzes. Which also is an added benefit. Test stress me out!

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Is there a crisis right now in reading and writing among students — or people in general?
I always like to point to a text that changed my thinking about this question, and that’s Kathleen Yancey’s “Writing in the 21st Century.” It basically states that students are writing more than ever before.
Why don't we value that writing in academia is the question for me?
Response: Explain how I feel online learning is adapting and taking advantage of various writing platforms.

"I call myself a “techno optimist.” I do think we need to be critical of tools, I do think we need to investigate tools and to consider the ethical ramifications of tools, but I also think we need to learn how to use them to our benefit. How can we use the tools that we have to support students? "
Response: Hypothes.is and Padlet as an example.

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Breaking boundaries means we’re integrating connections, communications, conversations, and community into our thinking and doing. Things do change, and we must adapt.