Students are reading on screens more than everhow can we teach them to be better digital readers Smartphones laptops tablets college students are reading onscreen all the time and digital devices shape students understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education however teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities unless theyre lamenting students attention spans or the distractions available to students when theyre learning online.Skim Dive Surface offers a corrective to these conversationsan invitation to focus not on losses to student learning but on the spectrum of affordances available within digital learning environments. It is designed to help college instructors across the curriculum teach digital reading in their classes whether they teach facetoface fully online or somewhere in between. Placing research from cognitive psychology neuroscience learning science and composition in dialogue with insight from the scholarship of teaching and learning Jenae Cohn shows how teachers can better frame scaffold and implement effective digital reading assignments. She positions digital reading as part of a cluster of literacies that students should develop in order to communicate effectively in a digital environment.