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 * My name is Laura Coffey and I have been a graduate student for the past three years. I expect to be graduating this May with a Master's Degree in the New Literacies and Global Learning program.

Throughout my studies at North Carolina State University, I have learned a lot of information about the new literacies as well as best instructional practices. Through my core courses I chose to research the effect that the new literacies had on literacy instruction. In each of my four core courses I designed and implemented research goals to answer my focus questions that were related to my essential question. By completing each project, with the guidance of my professors, I gathered enough knowledge and information to answer my essential question. As an educator I feel that I can use the knowledge that I gathered through these projects to enhance my instructional practices in reading instruction in the future. I am confident that the new literacies promote higher levels of reading comprehension, and this will be the direction that literacy is headed in the future.

My creative synthesis, located in the "Inquiry Process" section, depicts what I have learned throughout my research on the effects of integrating new technologies and best practices on reading instruction.

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